cowshed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cowshed
Example Sentences
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His forge sits tucked away in one of the beacons' hidden vales, only a few miles from the cowshed where he made that bold promise all those years ago.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
With them on, I could explore a cowshed like the one I’d visited at Stephen Lawlor’s farm.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
In Leena Sharma’s case, she ended up with about 37 acres, a portion of which she co-owned with her sister, including farmland, a tiny temple and a ramshackle cowshed.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2016
Another day begins at Camp Diamante, with low but strong sunlight on the roof of a cowshed next to our quarters, from which “ranchera” accordion music drifts across the savannah morning.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2016
‘Don’t hrumm me, Ted. I didn’t smoke it. Not really. I had a puff or two. But it wasn’t my brand. It tasted like cowshed.’
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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