How to Use ox in a Sentence

ox

noun
  • Then there’s the tale of the nun who was crushed by an ox on the working farm.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Somebody's ox is going to get gored here.
    — Jim Defede, CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • At the plate, the ox went 3-for-3 with a double and a triple.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Not welcome in his own house, just the ox to plow the field, the beast of burden.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • His ox, Babe, weighed 5 tons and had the strength of nine horses.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Always in great shape, strong as an ox and a really good dude.
    — Dallas News, 29 July 2022
  • Daeho also serves beef and ox bone soups and bibimbap in stone pots.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
  • That kid threw over-powering heat, but not nearly like this ox.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • At one beef party, an ox was slaughtered and the video was shared online.
    — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
  • But an ox, harnessed to a plow, could do the same amount of work in a fraction of the time.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • As usual, parties, fetes and ox roasts were held across the country.
    — Tom Parker Bowles, Town & Country, 15 May 2022
  • But note, there’s no stable mentioned or ox or ass mooning over the child.
    — Rick Hamlin and Bloomberg, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Enter Babe, who's not your usual blue ox, if there is such a thing.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
  • Conjure a spectral ox to charge forward.
    — Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In decades past, this iconic Jamaican dish was once prepared with the tail of an ox.
    — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • In the four corners of the card, there are images of a man, a lion, an eagle and an ox.
    — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
  • When dinner was served (a hearty ox and vegetable stew), the topic switched to polar bears.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2015
  • While Andrew was born in the year of the wood ox, Tim was born in the year of the fire tiger.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Kylin is a fantasy beast comprised of the body of a deer, tail of an ox, feet of a horse and scales of a fish.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Woods is strong as an ox and won’t get thrown to the ground the way some of his nose tackle predecessors were.
    — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Don't just watch your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fall down in the road and do nothing about it.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 June 2022
  • The overconfident tiger was sure to arrive first but arrived third after the rat and the ox.
    — Marilisa Barbieri, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Not an ox by any means but strong at this level after putting in some work and even after lost training time to the shoulder surgery.
    — Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Much of the lumber came by ox-cart from Jefferson, in East Texas.
    — Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Most importantly, Shelton is as strong as an ox at the point-of-attack.
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The visit takes a bizarre turn when Amat starts having visions of a massive blood-red ox in the house.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem.
    — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Researchers first sifted the amino acid taurine from a sample of ox bile in 1827.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • That same character will later eat the ox-hide straps of his snowshoes in a futile effort to survive.
    — Marcus Crowder, sacbee.com, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Elk, wolves, reindeer, or musk oxen eat the dead grass underneath the snow by pushing the snow away with their horns, snouts, or hooves.
    — National Geographic, 28 May 2017

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