Example Sentences

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We could put it Jeff Foxworthy-style: If you grow a beard, live under a bridge and dine on billy-goats, you might be a troll.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2015

With this they summoned all their energies together for one decisive encounter, leaned forward, lowered their heads like two billy-goats, and positively sprinted together for the final blow.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Anything is good to boys and billy-goats, but edjicated insides is sniffy, they tell me.

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley

"An' then," says he, "I don't want my two billy-goats harnessed up with nobody else's two billys to make fo' billys."

From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Stuart, Ruth McEnery

Shearing was in progress at the barn of the inn, and the streets were filled with bleating sheep and nodding billy-goats.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold