COW in a Sentence

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163 example sentences for COW, such as:

1. The cow is a domestic animal.
2. Fortunately the cow was gentle.
3. Her waist is as big as a cow's.
4. Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
5. In India the cow is a sacred animal.

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 Meanings and Examples of COW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cow
 n.  the mature female of cattle
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  Her waist is as big as a cow's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  His hip bones stood out like an old cow's, his ribs showed like a washboard and his back was a mass of sores.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  "It's only a cow," said Scarlett, her voice rough with fright.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  Yelping, Prissy raised her head and peering over the side of the wagon saw it was, indeed, a cow, a red and white animal which stood looking at them appealingly with large frightened eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Prissy rolled her eyes wildly, peeping first at the set face of her mistress and then at the cow which bawled plaintively.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Scarlett had always feared them, even the mildest cow seemed sinister to her, but this was no time to truckle to small fears when great ones crowded so thick upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Fortunately the cow was gentle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Finally he started slowly, the wagon creaking and the cow lowing mournfully at every step.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  But she had the cow and she might as well keep her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  I brought home a horse and a cow and the cow needs milking, badly, and unharness the horse and water him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Tell her she's got to fix the cow up somehow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  The cow and the calf had made no sound for hours.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  "The cow and the calf," she said quickly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  She was alarmed, too, for the cow and the horse and wished they were hidden in the swamp, instead of tied in the woods at the bottom of the pasture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  The cow had to be milked and pastured near the swamp and someone had to watch her all day for fear the Yankees or Frank Kennedy's men would return and take her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
2  In India the cow is a sacred animal.
3  The cow is a domestic animal.
4  If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
5  The cow answered to its cowboy's touch.
6  The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
7  The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
8  The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.
9  If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
10  A dairy cow needs to produce a calf each year.
11  Any product made from cow's milk made him vomit.
12  You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
13  "How now, brown cow, browsing in the green, green grass." I remember lines of verse that I came across while I browse through the poetry section of bookstore.
14  His cultures enjoin Patel from eating the flesh of a cow, which is sacred in India.
15  So she put me up a snack, and says: "Say, when a cow's laying down, which end of her gets up first? Answer up prompt now -- don't stop to study over it."