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Example sentences for "bovine"

Lexicographically close words:
bouts; bouwery; bovate; bovates; bove; bovril; bow; bowd; bowe; bowed
  1. The surveyor would stop with a sort of bovine surprise, and break out in irritable parenthesis.

  2. The calf was frisking about in awkward bovine elation, and now and then the cow affectionately licked its coat with the air of making its toilet.

  3. If it is satisfactory, ask him for a certificate stating when and by whom you were vaccinated, whether with bovine or humanized lymph, in how many places and with what result at each place.

  4. It is believed that all persons except those mentioned in the following paragraph may, if the operation is properly performed, at the proper time, and with pure bovine virus, be vaccinated with perfect safety to themselves.

  5. Because the potency of virus depends largely upon its being fresh, and it is so easy to obtain pure and fresh bovine virus, and because such bovine virus is efficient it is better in all cases to use only the pure and fresh bovine virus.

  6. Were the buffalo capable of the same alert and agile motions of head and eye peculiar to the deer or wild horse, in addition to his "bovine rage," he would be the most formidable brute on earth.

  7. Cairn turned to his companion, a ruddy and athletic looking man, somewhat bovine in type, who at the moment was busily tracing out sections on a human skull and checking his calculations from Ross's Diseases of the Nervous System.

  8. Sime was attached temporarily to an archæological expedition as medical man, and his athletic and somewhat bovine appearance contrasted oddly with the unhealthy gauntness of Cairn.

  9. They gazed upon him in bewilderment, but he continued his ministrations with grim persistence and an almost bovine expression of countenance.

  10. Rufus's face remained unchanged; it was slightly bovine of expression as he received the news.

  11. The bovine or brutal quality is by no means wholly worked out of the blood even yet.

  12. Besides a few live animals there are three or four on the ground, dead from the bovine pest, and some Chinese prisoners have this moment come to drag them to the river, the general rendezvous for dead bodies.

  13. And the bodies of cattle borne by the current pass by us in a perfect procession, all swollen and exhaling a bovine pest.

  14. Illustration] The limbs of the Gaur have more of the form of the deer than any other of the bovine genus.

  15. The crowd roared with an effusive and bovine delight that half frightened her, and with a dozen "Viva la Reyna Americanas!

  16. Some of these heterogeneous bands were afterwards found--the revolution accomplished--gazing stupidly on the sea, or ruminating in bovine wantonness on the glacis before the Presidio.

  17. It is now estimated that perhaps seven per cent of the tuberculosis in man is of bovine origin.

  18. It has been a disputed question for some years whether the organisms producing bovine and human tuberculosis are identical or from the practical standpoint, whether the bovine type of disease is transmitted under natural conditions to man.

  19. Of the two, the bovine is much the more virulent when inoculated into experimental animals.

  20. The number of men they would feed, and the distance they would cover if extended in a line I do not know; but it may be taken for granted that the export of these preserved instruments of bovine speech is very considerable.

  21. It would be safe to wager that there is not one of those passing down-stream that is not laden with some portions or other of the bodies bequeathed to humanity by the unconsulted yet generous bovine souls.

  22. Ferdinand, with his bovine body and his leonine head, seemed almost startlingly masculine in this assemblage, and felt so.

  23. He had expected to come upon a huddle of blond plumpness, an inanimate mass of forceless flesh robbed of its bovine suavity by inactivity.

  24. And, O king, Gavakshya also of terrible mien and endued with a bovine tail, showed himself there, having collected sixty thousand crores of monkeys.

  25. And, O king, Surabhi who is called the mother of bovine kind by the wise is best ridden by the evil spirit Sakuni, who in company with her, devours children on this earth.

  26. The creature gazed after his human companions and the horses with plain surprise in his bovine countenance.

  27. It was merely that he had chanced to discover he was alone and the sense of fear, more than any other sense, keeps all of the bovine clans in herd.

  28. Pape decided if possible to draft him into service against the bovine enemy.

  29. In yonder bovine I present for your inspection a copy of the Stansbury-Pape escutcheon--verily the fruit of my family tree.

  30. A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person.

  31. The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

  32. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.

  33. The mature female of bovine animals.

  34. To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.

  35. The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.

  36. The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so.

  37. Bovine serum albumin, used as an enzymatically inert protein in biochemical research.

  38. A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

  39. Its movements were, as has been said, more or less bovine and phlegmatic.

  40. And next came the bold pronunciamento of no less an authority than Koch himself, that the bovine bacillus also was so feebly infective to human beings that it might be practically disregarded as a source of danger.

  41. He took a culture of bovine bacilli, which were entirely harmless to fowls, and, inclosing them in a collodion capsule, inserted them into the peritoneal cavity of a hen.

  42. There is, therefore, no a priori reason whatever why we should be any more susceptible to bovine tuberculosis than the remainder of the domestic animals.

  43. So that, while the problem is still an enormous one, it is now confidently believed that complete eradication of bovine tuberculosis is only a question of time.

  44. They cover hundreds of acres, and constitute what has been styled "The Great Bovine City of the World.

  45. This bovine city is regularly laid out in streets and alleys crossing each other at right angles.

  46. And, O king, Surabhi who is called the mother of bovine kind by the wise is best ridden by the evil spirit Sakuni, who in company with her, devours children on this earth.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bovine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    asinine; beef; bison; blockish; bossy; bovine; buffalo; bull; calf; cattle; clumsy; complacent; cow; crass; critter; dense; dispassionate; dogie; doltish; dull; dumb; equestrian; equine; fat; goatish; gross; heifer; hoggish; hoofed; horsy; impassive; imperturbable; kine; lumpish; maverick; milker; mulish; opaque; passive; patient; piggish; ruminant; sheepish; simple; slow; smug; sottish; steady; steer; stolid; stupid; swinish; thick; ungulate; unteachable; wrongheaded; yearling