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bullock - use in sentences
Converse of object
- kill: After prayers everyone went to his work as usual, and the butcher killed a bullock.
- take: AMELIA sent her into Plymouth where she arrived on the 17th On 23 June she took bullocks out to the fleet.
- drive: One morning, as he was about to drove some bullocks to Tavistock market, his wife dashed out into the yard.
- feed: He finds them of admirable use in feeding bullocks, and fat and lean sheep.
- have: We had six bullocks and four men with the wagon and our own boy Daudi, who carried the lantern till daylight came.
- cut: The slaughterer cuts the bullock 's throat by slicing across it, backward and forward 13 times.
Converse of subject
- draw: The small trucks of coal are drawn by bullocks.
Adjective modifier
- young: Of this sixteen acres are assigned to the dairy for the cows, and 12 for the oxen and young bullocks.
- second: The rest of the piskies appeared at the door with his second best bullock.
- large: He appears from the darkness with a bullock in tow, a large black bullock.
- old: The older bullocks who had made the trip several times would lead the rest to the moor gate.
- fat: At Melford fair, good horses were scarce and eagerly sought after, cows started at low prices, fat bullocks in scant supply.
- white: One of the little boys fell down, and some white bullocks came out of an archway.
Modifies a noun
- cart: We see still families in bullock carts on the roads moving to places of safety.
- wagon: However, because there had been a mix-up over transport, only a bullock wagon for the luggage had met the train.
- driver: On 12th June 1852, Alice ( Ellis ) then married Richard Rees, bullock driver of Peachy Belt, Gawler Plains.
- wagon: It was cut the same day and I was sent into Kimberley on a bullock wagon with the wounded and other sick.
Noun used with modifier
- yearling: It was the size of a two-year-old stirk ( yearling bullock ).
Possessives
- head: Having been killed, the bullock's head is sliced off and hung on a hook.
- eye: The specimen has been recreated using a bullock's eye.
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