How to Use ewe in a Sentence
ewe
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Four rams, 10 ewes, and four lambs watched me, less than 30 feet away.
—Jim Kristofic, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
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The O’Connors plan to keep the four ewes and find homes for the two male lambs.
—Amanda Swinhart, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026
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The O'Connors plan to keep the four ewes and find homes for the two male lambs.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
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The farm had once been filled with the sounds and smells of birthing lambs, milking ewes and making cheese.
—Alisa Tang, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
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McCarty had seen a number of ewes and lambs but no rams.
—Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the ewe who gave birth to her won't go away or stop pestering these human usurpers.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
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And five ewes are currently pregnant.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
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Until the day a ewe gives birth in the barn and the couple stare at each other, astonished.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
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Rotund ewes are sometimes prone to getting pinned upside down in hollows by their own weight.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
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Almost all quickly reunite with their ewes, and any that struggle are guided back.
—NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
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Already, as the second picture shows, the ewes’ pupils had morphed into rounds.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
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Around mid-August, the ram on HD Farm joins some three dozen ewes in a field.
—Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
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Folk horror film about a couple grieving the loss of a child who adopt a hybrid that is born to an ewe on their lonely farm.
—Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
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And depending on the state, hunting licenses for ewes may run you far less than ram licenses.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 11 Apr. 2024
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She was cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a 6-year-old ewe.
—Tony Long, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2007
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Myra Ambroglia went into the adult division with a Lincoln ewe.
—Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 6 Sep. 2017
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With hands stretched wide, Meng Baoyindaogetao backs the ewe into a corner, seizes it by the horns and swings his leg over its back.
—Charlie Campbell / Baotou, Time, 27 July 2017
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For example, one night, roaming dogs killed every breeding ewe at HD Farm.
—Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
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And Courtemanch said a ewe hunt has been authorized only once in Wyoming and rarely in other parts of the West.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2021
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Ravioli is filled with local ewe’s milk ricotta, and tagliolinis are served with catches of the day.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 July 2018
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That passage reminded me of the Sardinian shepherd, coaxing a ewe and her suckling from the flock.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
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Unlike other sheep breeds, Ewenice, who is a merino ewe, does not shed her fleece and needs to be shorn at least annually, the outlet adds.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2020
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With the addition of the six lambs, along with two other recent births, the farm's flock has grown to 21 sheep, with five more ewes currently pregnant.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
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My business with them is to take them out individually on little visits (my euphemism) for two or three weeks to various flocks of ewes.
—The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
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The Associated Press reports the jumping sheep was an ewe, or female.
—Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 25 Oct. 2017
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The breed, which looks like sheep as imagined by Wallace & Gromit, is marked by a jet-black face, ears, knees, boots, and in the ewe’s case, posteriors.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2021
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But few young people learn how to butcher a 70-pound ewe, and the requirement is one of the biggest reasons fewer women are competing.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
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The Whanganui River winds past the property, which is home to 3,500 breeding ewes and herds of red and fallow deer.
—Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
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At Flat Top's ranch, Cory is one of several ranch hands tasked with tending to about 4,000 breeding ewe.
—Shelbie Harris, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
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With the strap in place, Prior and BonDurant were able to physically pull the ewe from the river, according to the agency.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
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