How to Use cattle in a Sentence

cattle

plural noun
Definition of cattlenext
Synonyms for cattlenext
  • Schafer, 54, and her husband took over the cattle part of the farm.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2023
  • The villagers toiled in a scene of horror: The air was filled with the stench of dead cattle.
    — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Track the breathing rates of cattle and their calves on a livestock farm?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024
  • At the age of 9, Leclerc worked on cattle farms near his house to earn a little money to help his mother.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • The kids can try cattle roping and ride a pony, a mechanical bull or the Li’l Grand train.
    — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Fox News has been on the cattle mutilation beat for a while.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • The property has been used as a working cattle spread for decades.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • Kasey has shown cattle at the Indiana State Fair and is a 10-year 4-H member.
    — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Growing up in a town in the rural Nevada town of Spring Creek, the 16-year-old had learned how to drive cattle on horseback at the age of 9.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • Outside, cattle graze across the rolling hills and the voices of herdsmen are a distant soundtrack.
    — Nokukhanya Musi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The cattle mow down the fields and then the chickens spread out the manure and aerate the soil with their pecking, which speeds up regrowth of the grass, Hamilton said.
    — oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023
  • In India, the slaughter of cattle for meat is largely the preserve of Muslims, a fact that wasn’t lost on the viewers.
    — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
  • During the huge flash drought in 2012 in the central U.S., cattle ran out of forage and water became scarcer.
    — Jeff Basara, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • Its original menu focused on steak, an homage to its roots as a cattle feed lot in 1919.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2023
  • The first shots were of cattle, dogs and posing villagers, such as an old farmer who got down on all fours and crawled past, growling.
    — Vidya Athreya, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The cattle that ranchers brought with them preferred the non-native grasses as food.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In country where grass grew like that, cotton would surely grow tall, and cattle fat—and men rich.
    — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Her father and a crew were working in a remote corner of the ranch branding cattle.
    — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, the Stockyards is a Fort Worth rite of passage, where the world’s only twice-daily cattle drive and year-round rodeo occurs.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The small, powerful and sturdily built dogs are bred to be cattle herders and ratters.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The dairy worker had caught the virus, apparently, from cattle.
    — David Cox, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The drive there took us through picturesque fields where cattle milled around sturdy barns, then up into hills covered in spruce and pine.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Prices are off their highs, but the record low cattle numbers are still impacting the industry.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Two people have died as well as thousands of heads of cattle and more than 500 structures have been destroyed by the wildfires.
    — S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Surrounded by cowboys and cattle, Chandler learned how to ride a horse at 16.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • In comparison, large cattle will eat around 2.5% of their body weight each day, according to the San Diego Zoo.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
  • By the 1600s, more and more settlers arrived and began herding cattle and horses.
    — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The number of cattle in the region fluctuates as ranchers rent pasture for their herds.
    — Sean Murphy, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Now Jake serves as sheriff of Bitter Creek, while Silva lives out by himself on the range, raising cattle.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • The Colorado cattle industry sued state and federal wildlife agencies last week seeking to block the rollout of the plan.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023

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