Wondering how to use Calf in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as sura or calfskin.
Calf in a sentence
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Calf meaning
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
Using Calf
- The main meaning on this page is: A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo. | Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- Useful related words include: sura, skeletal muscle, striated muscle, calfskin.
- In the example corpus, calf often appears in combinations such as: calf injury, the calf, with calf.
Context around Calf
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Calf
- In this selection, "calf" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, buffalo, orphan, poddy, rearing, rennet and wide stand out and add context to how "calf" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a calf peers out and a calf that has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "calf" sits close to words such as defeats, leone and peaks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with calf
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A couple of body kicks from Saragih, then Alexander lands a calf kick. (13 words)
Vellum comes from the Latin word vitulinum which means “of calf”/ “made from calf”. (14 words)
A calf peers out from her stall at Lilac Ridge Farm in West Brattleboro. (14 words)
This particular type of growth is seen early in the fetus of a pregnant dam, which results in a calf that is born with two times the number of muscle fibers at birth than a calf with no myostatin gene mutation. (41 words)
If an animal is between approximately 30 and 120 days in-calf, it will be susceptible to BVD infection and the creation of a Persistently Infected calf if it contacts an animal or material infected with BVD. (37 words)
Calf rearing systems The single suckler system of rearing calves is similar to that occurring naturally in wild cattle, where each calf is suckled by its own mother until it is weaned at about nine months old. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A calf that has lost its mother is an orphan calf, also known as a poddy or poddy-calf in British English.
Running back Miles Sanders (calf), wide receiver Jonathan Mingo (concussion), cornerback CJ Henderson (ankle) and guard Chandler Zavala (calf) were among those listed as limited.
Beal is dealing with a calf injury, and has not played since Nov. 12. Durant, meanwhile, has been out since Nov. 8 with a calf strain of his own.
If an animal is between approximately 30 and 120 days in-calf, it will be susceptible to BVD infection and the creation of a Persistently Infected calf if it contacts an animal or material infected with BVD.
Jed Wallace (calf) is a big absentee, as is Grady Diangana (calf), two key attackers.
One of the key objectives of calf rearing is to ensure the proper development of the calf’s rumen.
Even when she and her calf are being attacked from all sides by the wolves, she continues to make herself a barrier between the wolves and the calf.
If the cow mates with male bison and gets pregnant, she could die during delivery because her hybrid calf would be bigger than a normal cow calf.
Calf rearing systems The single suckler system of rearing calves is similar to that occurring naturally in wild cattle, where each calf is suckled by its own mother until it is weaned at about nine months old.
Extraction of calf rennet Calf rennet is extracted from the inner mucosa of the fourth stomach chamber (the abomasum ) of young, unweaned calves as part of livestock butchering.
Females deliver a single calf after a gestation period lasting about a year, the calf is dependent for one to two years, and maturity occurs after seven to ten years, all varying between the species.
For dairy production under such circumstances, the calf's access to the cow must be limited, for example by penning the calf and bringing the mother to it once a day after partly milking her.
The Battiste Good winter count records Lakota history back to 900 CE, when White Buffalo Calf Woman gave the Lakota people the White Buffalo Calf Pipe.
The Land, Rural Press, North Richmond, NSW, 7 August 2008 A young female calf from birth until she has had a calf of her own is called a heifer citation (main).
They steer the sled mainly with their calves by applying pressure on the runners—right calf to turn left, left calf to turn right.
This particular type of growth is seen early in the fetus of a pregnant dam, which results in a calf that is born with two times the number of muscle fibers at birth than a calf with no myostatin gene mutation.
Vellum comes from the Latin word vitulinum which means “of calf”/ “made from calf”.
A calf peers out from her stall at Lilac Ridge Farm in West Brattleboro.
According to Maloney, a great and simple calf stretch is one you probably did in gym class as a kid.
A couple of body kicks from Saragih, then Alexander lands a calf kick.
Common combinations with calf
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- calf injury 37×
- the calf 21×
- with calf 18×
- calf strain 11×
- calf kick 11×
- his calf 10×
- calf to 8×
- of calf 7×
- calf and 7×
- left calf 7×