BISON in a Sentence

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1. Large herds of bison used to live on the plains of North America.
2. Nobody knows how many bison inhabited North America before the coming of the Europeans.

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 Meanings and Examples of BISON
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bison
 n.  any of several large shaggy-manned humped bovid having large heads and short horns
Classic Sentence:
1  Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  In more fertile spots the observer would have come to the conclusion that one of those great herds of bisons which graze upon the prairie land was approaching him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Example Sentence:
1  Nobody knows how many bison inhabited North America before the coming of the Europeans.
2  Large herds of bison used to live on the plains of North America.