noun
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Sarabia scoops up a baby billy goat and cradles him in his arms.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2023
The Cubs would go on to end a 108-year championship drought — and finally broke what some believed was a curse brought on by a Chicago tavern owner’s pet billy goat.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022
Travel restrictions made an accidental sleeper of the Torlonia family’s Greek and Roman sculptures: dozens of portrait busts, a hirsute billy goat reclining like a love god, a shattered Hercules recomposed from a hundred shards.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021
Their sheep, on the other hand, are a little creepy and otherworldly, in the manner of the billy goat Black Phillip from Robert Eggers’s similarly moody and supernatural “The Witch.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2021
He’s searching my face with his kind billy goat eyes.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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