Example Sentences

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Shadows were lengthening, and the cows were mooing at the pasture gate.

From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch

Pigs were grunting and squealing, cows were mooing, a donkey was braying, ducks were quacking, hens were clucking, roosters were crowing.

From The Desired Woman by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

Hungry cattle were lowing and full-uddered mothers were mooing answers to bawling calves.

From Erskine Dale?Pioneer by Fox, John

The cows were mooing, the cats mewing, the dogs barking, the pigs grunting.

From The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody)

To add to the confusion cows were mooing loudly for their off-spring not yet unloaded from the calf wagon.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod