On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Oxen. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as cattle or cows and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Oxen in a sentence
Related words
Oxen meaning
plural of ox
Using Oxen
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of ox
- Useful related words include: cattle, cows, kine, bos taurus.
- In the example corpus, oxen often appears in combinations such as: of oxen, oxen and, with oxen.
Context around Oxen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oxen
- In this selection, "oxen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, left, remaining, crossing, underscoring and heading stand out and add context to how "oxen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the oxen you re and carrying two oxen heading to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oxen" sits close to words such as ache, advani and afi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oxen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It depicts a team of oxen crossing a snowy field. (10 words)
Oxen are hard-working and have the determination to accomplish almost any goal. (13 words)
In his monasteries, he and his monks would plough fields by hand rather than using oxen. (16 words)
Plank roads usually followed old Indian trails and were only wide enough to allow one horse or oxen-drawn wagon on its width so there were “outcroppings” every so often to allow vehicles to pull over to permit oncoming traffic to pass. (42 words)
Being an old desert rat at heart, I relished the opportunity to wander around through the sand and sagebrush, looking for the strange desert plants, colorful gemstones, purple bottles and the occasional oxen shoe or projectile point. (37 words)
Both police and veterinary services have been informed over the incident, while the party urged for an investigation for the fate of the remaining oxen and a number of dogs the man is known to have. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Oxen have been long used for farming and Chinese governments have frequently strictly prohibited the slaughter of oxen for food.
Two oxen were typically yoked together at the neck or head; the left oxen was referred to as the "neight" ox, the right ox as the "off" ox.
Both police and veterinary services have been informed over the incident, while the party urged for an investigation for the fate of the remaining oxen and a number of dogs the man is known to have.
In his monasteries, he and his monks would plough fields by hand rather than using oxen.
In terms of love, Oxen in relationships are advised to strengthen their bonds with some (albeit uncharacteristic) romance.
It depicts a team of oxen crossing a snowy field.
But all the musk oxen around Nome today have ancestors that saw the inside of a train station in New Jersey.
Furthermore, while I did amass some possessions, oxen and donkeys, these were not the blessings of our father.
In Solo, the biggest party's Ganjar rode a cart filled with produce pulled by oxen - underscoring his man-of-the-people style - and greeted thousands of supporters braving the rain.
The accident occurred around 2 am when a truck carrying two oxen heading to Srikalahasti was hit from behind by another truck carrying iron.
Being an old desert rat at heart, I relished the opportunity to wander around through the sand and sagebrush, looking for the strange desert plants, colorful gemstones, purple bottles and the occasional oxen shoe or projectile point.
Namibian farmers follow either a cow to ox system, a cow to weaner system or a speculating from weaners to oxen.
Only if you live in Middlesex and the oxen you're driving are cool with it.
Oxen are hard-working and have the determination to accomplish almost any goal.
Plank roads usually followed old Indian trails and were only wide enough to allow one horse or oxen-drawn wagon on its width so there were “outcroppings” every so often to allow vehicles to pull over to permit oncoming traffic to pass.
During the journeys along the river, the barks were escorted from the shore by soldiers, dancers, and bearers of offerings, among them fattened oxen that were to be sacrificed.
Farmers who were well resourced enough to raise and maintain specialized plow oxen saw new opportunities in farming additional land.
Probably the one that’s best known is the one about how Bootes, out of desperate poverty, invented a plow that could be pulled by oxen.
An authentic vintage launching by a team of oxen was attended by hundreds to see the result of the complete rebuild of the famous 118-year-old Morse-built sloop.
As the song progresses, Ramudu and Lakshmanudu are shown as having grown into full bodied oxen and tied to a cart, carrying loads of paddy, while Lakshmi is riding on it.
Common combinations with oxen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of oxen 13×
- oxen and 13×
- with oxen 7×
- oxen were 6×
- oxen in 6×
- by oxen 5×
- oxen to 5×
- two oxen 4×
- oxen or 4×
- oxen for 3×