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
He, Hunt, and I were standing in a more recent structure a few feet away, a hangar-size cowshed with a corrugated-metal roof.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018
“If I’ve been busy in my cowshed, then I’m already coated in manure!”
From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 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
‘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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