How to Use cow in a Sentence

cow

1 of 2 noun

• The cows need to be milked twice a day.
• Ed called out, one more time, and the cow looked at him and then stood.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
• Rip and the boys come across a dead cow that's been eaten by wolves.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• Oat milk prices are more than double the cost of cow’s milk.
  — Good Housekeeping, 8 Oct. 2022
• And a special guest appearance by the Chick-Fil-A cow is in the works, too.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• This slab of meat is cut from the short loin of the cow, combining both the Filet Mignon and the Ribeye steak.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• The kids aren’t the only ones enjoying the cow and panda.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
• Ranchers are charged $1.35 per month per cow for the use of the public domain.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
• Through a hole in the wall, Jalambaba could see the silhouette of his dead cow on the grass.
  — Eduardo Halfon, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2021
• Sculptor Sarah Pratt spent 90 hours over five days crafting the cow.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
• The Pilgrims did not have butter; their first cow did not come across the ocean until 1623.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
• Taurus, the cutest cow, is ruled by Venus, the planet of beauty and abundance.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 26 Apr. 2022
• Instead, the culprit must be microbes, either the sort that live in a marsh or the sort that live in a cow’s gut.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Eventually the man on a Sea-Doo tied a leash to a cow's halter and swam it across.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• Half his earnings come from his feed farm, two buffaloes and one cow.
  — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• After driving off in the bus for a short distance, Lopez crashed in a cow pasture and ran away.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• Phil does still braid the promised rope for Peter, using hides that Peter has cut off a dead cow out on the trail.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
• For children over 6 months, whole cow’s milk can be safe for a brief period of time.
  — Christine Clarridge, Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2022
• Meaning that there are two skirt steaks to every cow—the inside skirt and the outside skirt.
  — Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• On one trip, local villagers taught her how to use cow's milk to make Wagashi -- a soft, mild cheese.
  — Jackie Prager, CNN, 22 July 2022
• Food giant Unilever is planning a dairy ice cream that uses milk that doesn’t come from a cow.
  — Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• The result is a cheese that's richer than mozzarella made with cow's milk.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2022
• Baker obtained a brownish-red cow and calf and a black bull and equipped them with microchips.
  — Susan Carroll, NBC News, 22 July 2022
• Be sure to take a photo with the statue of the brand’s iconic logo, a little girl leading a cow on a rope.
  — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 8 Feb. 2022
• If a cow was killed, the market—not sentiment—would supply the answer.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• On board was a person in a cow costume and others wearing pink clogs and pink cowboy hats.
  — Peter Dejong, ajc, 6 Aug. 2022
• These come in the softest cow suede leather and are made in Italy for a high quality shoe without the designer price tag.
  — Kristina Rutkowski, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Jan. 2023
• The Cowboys’ rushing attack has not been much of a threat, with Dominic Richardson being the bell cow.
  — Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2022
• On a recent sunny fall day, Woodland Farms' cow-and-calf herd grazed in one of the farm's front pastures, weaving among sprouts of tall Johnson grass, troughs of water and mineral licks.
  — The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2023
• Investors scooped up the shares, excited about its socially conscious pitch—that consuming oat milk results in less greenhouse-gas emissions as compared with cow’s milk.
  — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022

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cow

2 of 2 verb

• I refuse to be cowed by their threats.
• The test for the sport is to prove it is not cowed by that.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• The New York Times refused to be cowed, and good for them.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 8 Aug. 2018
• Dolan has heard such threats before, and does not seem cowed.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• In a different era, the smack of the speaker’s ruler would have cowed the upstarts.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 19 July 2019
• The second problem is the amount of methane that cows create.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 8 Sep. 2017
• Most fledgling cooks would be cowed by the idea of preparing a meal for Boulud.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
• Many media figures might be cowed by the string of beatdowns.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• From seashell earrings to cow print bikinis these trendy items are must-haves.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 2 Aug. 2019
• But our backs are against the wall and if we are cowed by fear now, there won’t be another chance to speak out.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• Not that the press is overly cowed by Harry’s broadside.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• Toman, meanwhile, hadn't been cowed at all by the trademark McManus bad luck.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The rallies spread to many areas as protesters vowed not to be cowed.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2019
• About 50% of the babies in the United States have an allergy to cow’s milk, Madden said.
  — cleveland, 20 May 2022
• Was the attack used to cow the Soviets as much as the Japanese?
  — Michael Auslin, WSJ, 23 July 2023
• The products are made for babies who are allergic to cow’s milk.
  — Kevin Freking, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
• But Pashinyan — who was widely expected to win — was far from cowed.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• That’s barely a million dollars per team, and yet Snyder—a Trump donor—found that enough to be cowed.
  — GQ, 11 Oct. 2017
• But its demands can also cow and daunt and unnerve them.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2021
• The English seemed focused, the Welsh were not cowed, and the atmosphere was electric, yet sporting.
  — Sam Borden, New York Times, 16 June 2016
• His system, unlike Ida, doesn't track cud-chewing or use AI to tell him which cows to watch or what to do.
  — Drew Harwell, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• She was also trained by someone who is not cowed by power.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• They, too, know the pain of extremely hot baseball and will probably not be cowed.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
• In some countries, heads of state or government stepped down, cowed by the demonstrations.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• There was little sign, in other words, that Trump had been cowed by the week's experience.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2019
• They won’t be cowed by Jones’ colossal wealth and arrogance, nor by politician threats.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
• The risks: New sanctions will hurt Iran’s economy, which could cow Iran into a more subservient state.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 11 May 2018
• These days many governments that want to cow their critics are as likely to use the taxman as the secret police.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• So do punitive measures like New Zealand’s plan to require farmers to start paying a price for the methane that cows belch and the nitrous oxide that comes from their urine.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• She was given a role—but turned it down upon actually reading Hansberry’s realist drama, cowed by the challenge.
  — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023

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