Examples of cowshed in a Sentence
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Farmhouses, chicken coops and cowsheds stood empty, their roofs and walls collapsed, their foundations overgrown.
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Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
Surrounded by lush green lawn, the whitewashed stone building is an erstwhile cowshed located on the five-acre property, a former farm, where her family has lived since Rogge was 6.
—Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 4 May 2020
The tradition says that any woman who has her period must be banished outside, to a cowshed or makeshift bunker, no matter how cold or dangerous.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2019
My father built our country home inside the farm’s original cowshed.
—Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 12 Dec. 2017
New Delhi (CNN)A teenage girl in Nepal has died after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a cowshed during a menstruation ritual that sees young women separated from their families and made to sleep alone.
—Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 10 July 2017
During his nine months in the cowshed, Mr. Ji was forced to haul baskets of coal, weed a garden and hand-plow fields of rice near the campus.
—Jane Perlez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
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Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
Surrounded by lush green lawn, the whitewashed stone building is an erstwhile cowshed located on the five-acre property, a former farm, where her family has lived since Rogge was 6.
—Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 4 May 2020
The tradition says that any woman who has her period must be banished outside, to a cowshed or makeshift bunker, no matter how cold or dangerous.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2019
My father built our country home inside the farm’s original cowshed.
—Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 12 Dec. 2017
New Delhi (CNN)A teenage girl in Nepal has died after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a cowshed during a menstruation ritual that sees young women separated from their families and made to sleep alone.
—Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 10 July 2017
During his nine months in the cowshed, Mr. Ji was forced to haul baskets of coal, weed a garden and hand-plow fields of rice near the campus.
—Jane Perlez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
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“Cowshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cowshed. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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