Sentence examples for ox of from inspiring English sources

He took to calling his onetime subordinate "the stalled ox of the White House".

"We gored the ox of the patron of the Senate," as one aide put it.

If you cherish the ox of any aesthetic or ideological bias, he'll gore it".

Aurochs (Bos primigenius), also spelled auroch, extinct wild ox of Europe, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), from which cattle are probably descended.

They know about the callousness of Napps, leader of the three, who with Millet-Bass, an uncomplicated ox of a man, abandoned poor Dinners when supplies were running low and bad weather made rescue look impossible.

But it was only some time last year that the Swiss seemed to realize that the casing for their favorite sausage is made from the intestines of the Brazilian zebu, a hump-backed ox of Asian origin but now found widely in South America.

The first segment is based on the mythological lumberjack Paul Bunyan, who carved Babe the Blue ox out of the Blue Mountains.

So, for example, if we are disputing about whether to use "ox" or "non-ox" of some obscure object, one of the answers will be correct.

Among the most intriguing examples are figures of cattle with vertical stripes on their coat (Fig. 4b) that are extremely similar to the favourite-ox of a modern-day Turkana (Fig. 4a).

The favourite-ox of the Turkana is generally a castrated male with a very particular appearance, artificially developed through a variety of complex coat and body modifications and horn deformation (Gulliver 1951, 1952a, Evans-Pritchard 1953 , 1956 Almagor 1972, Turton 1980, Brown 1990, Dubosson 2014, Insoll et al. 2015).

It was tough to pass because it gored the oxen of major vested interests that weren't just going to roll over and play dead.