BUFFALO in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for BUFFALO, such as:

1. There are many buffalo in north America.
2. She got so cold that we made her hide her head under the buffalo robe.
3. The Hurons drove him from the graves of his fathers, as they would chase the hunted buffalo.
4. I piled straw and buffalo robes into the box, and took two hot bricks wrapped in old blankets.
5. Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUFFALO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
buffalo
 n.  a heavily built wild ox with backswept horns, American bison
 v.  intimidate or overawe someone
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  The horses and the buffalo robe were covered with snow; her face was wet; the thin butt of the whip held a white ridge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  It was like diving into icy water to climb out of the carriage, but on the ground she smiled at him, her face little and childish and pink above the buffalo robe over her shoulders.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  He rubbed her feet, and covered her with the buffalo robe and horse-blankets from the pile on the feed-box.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Jake got on the front seat with Otto Fuchs, and I rode on the straw in the bottom of the wagon-box, covered up with a buffalo hide.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
5  Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  While we were lying there against the warm bank, a little insect of the palest, frailest green hopped painfully out of the buffalo grass and tried to leap into a bunch of bluestem.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
7  I explained to Antonia how this meant that he was twenty-four years old, that he must have been there when white men first came, left on from buffalo and Indian times.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
8  I piled straw and buffalo robes into the box, and took two hot bricks wrapped in old blankets.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
9  The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they kept shivering beneath the buffalo robes and hugging each other for warmth.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  She got so cold that we made her hide her head under the buffalo robe.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
11  An enormous moose head, with horns six feet across, faced a buffalo head on the opposite wall, while bear and tiger skins covered the polished floor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  The Hurons drove him from the graves of his fathers, as they would chase the hunted buffalo.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
13  When an Indian chief comes among his white fathers," returned Duncan, with great steadiness, "he lays aside his buffalo robe, to carry the shirt that is offered him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
14  Oh, how simple it would all have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
15  Though banding together in tens of thousands, the lion-maned buffaloes of the West have fled before a solitary horseman.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
Example Sentence:
1  There are many buffalo in north America.