oxen
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In her introduction, she swoops over the poppy fields to free the enslaved oxen forced to build the Yellow Brick Road.
From Los Angeles Times
Then hundreds more workers arrived, some of them with ropes, animal fat, water, and oxen.
From Literature
Roz crested a small ridge and surprised a herd of musk oxen.
From Literature
Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.
When that stopped paying out, he used his oxen to feed the town of Bodie.
From Los Angeles Times
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