How to Use bovine in a Sentence

bovine

1 of 2 adjective
  • She stared at us with a stupid, bovine expression.
  • Is there anything more sustainable, and less bovine, than oats?
    — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Cows feet and the occasional bloody bovine head hang at the butcher stalls.
    — Lindsay Cohn, ELLE Decor, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Instead, these pieces were carved from bone — probably good old bovine bones of some nature.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 1 June 2022
  • The challenge, then, is getting yeast to make bovine collagen.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Made of bovine suede leather with crepe rubber outsoles and cotton laces, these stylish, low boots are easy to dress up or down.
    — Sarah Crow, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Suspect foiled by bovine crime fighters Cows herd suspect and police milk the chase video.
    — CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Cow and beef both derive from *gwou-, a PIE root that referred to all things bovine.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2021
  • One scoop packs a whopping 11 grams of bovine collagen peptides.
    — Brianna Peters, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026
  • His grace moved me like the flourish of a cape, an attack of violins, a sword to the heart of me, bovine, adoring.
    — Alison Kinney, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2018
  • All of the precautions lessen the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
  • Made of bovine leather with shiny patent finish, these slingback pumps boast subtle, cute details like double bows at the toe and a pale pink heel.
    — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The moose lifted his head in bovine oblivion and turned to the camera, plants draping his antlers, water running down his droopy face.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The vaccine pictured is used to combat bovine coronavirus, which is a virus that infects cattle.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2020
  • In neither case did surviving bovine speak or think kindly of the professional speed eaters.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The foresters work with the cattle ranchers to manage fencing and other bovine herding issues.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Big-eyed cattle still graze in the field just to the south, offering a closeup bovine encounter for curious city kids.
    — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2017
  • This type of collagen lets your organs keep their shape and structural integrity and is found in bovine collagen.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In total, the bovine airlift is expected to bring in the 4,000 cows within about a month.
    — Mohammed Sergie, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
  • The bovine genome belonged to a bison, and its mtDNA can be found in living bison.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2021
  • Crutzen and others, thus confirmed that growing bovine numbers, were one of the largest factors behind the rise of methane emissions.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • For city folk, that's an eye-opening bovine palpation scene that engulfs farmer Mackenzie Davis' arm in the back end of a cow.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 June 2020
  • Zhu and his collaborators hypothesize that herd small talk may carry cues about bovine well-being.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Boston Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Today around 120 feral buffaloes live in Hong Kong, alongside ten times as many of their bovine cousins, brown cows.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • At its base, from which a handle once protruded, the head of the goddess Hathor gazes out, her fertile powers suggested by bovine ears.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
  • And their purpose is to keep out the ticks that carry cattle fever, a deadly bovine disease endemic to Mexico.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Wearing gloves and face masks, each senior student walked down a red carpet, received a stole and gift basket, and posed for a photo with the chain’s beloved bovine mascot.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 May 2020
  • The state ranks second in the nation for exports of cheese and whey, and first for exports of cranberries, sweet corn, ginseng, bovine genetics and raw fur skins.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2017
  • There’s a bovine sweetness to the performance of former action-movie star Brendan Fraser.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The bovine equivalent of sumo wrestling, the events see massive bulls try to push one another out of a ring surrounded by cheering farmers -- many of whom placed bets on the beasts.
    — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2017

bovine

2 of 2 noun
  • The film shows an actual bovine perched atop one of the floats.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
  • One of our neighbors placed a full-size statue of a bovine on his roof.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Even these bovine seemed to be among the happy-to-be-moving-again crowd.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Also, some may want to note the softgels are made from bovine (cow) gelatin.
    — Willow Jarosh, Ms, Rd, Health, 22 Aug. 2023
  • And in the end, Bambi may be the most valuable bovine around.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Cape buffalo are the largest wild bovine on the continent.
    — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Demand for brisket is at an all-time high and for every bovine, there are only two to tango.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2023
  • That bovine colostrum is similar in makeup to human colostrum.
    — Rebecca Jaspan, Mph, Rd, Health, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And the licking is a way of showing affection and bonding among bovine.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Most of the work so far has used fetal bovine serum, which is harvested from cow fetuses.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • The owners were also on hand, trying to track down and corral the fugitive bovine.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • The bovine was seen as a crucial ally in taming — and then claiming — the wildest of terrain.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The bovine had charged at a family of four, knocking some of them to the ground, officials said.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • Pembroke Pines police described the bovine as a large, brown female brown cow with a white head.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 24 July 2019
  • But farmers in eastern Thailand showed off their fastest bovines in a unique, muddy speed test.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 July 2017
  • There are oral vaccines to protect wildlife from rabies and oral vaccines for bovine diseases, so why not this?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Video posted on Facebook showed some of the bovine floating down the river, their heads up for air.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 June 2019
  • The bovine coronavirus did not cause the current outbreak in humans.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2020
  • But that same sleight-of-hand, accompanied by the scream of the engine’s whistle, saved the bovine in the nick of time.
    — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The cabin's intoxicating leather might gain the approval of even the bovine from which it was snatched.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
  • The bovine was struck within a hundred yards of the family’s front porch, according to the farm’s post.
    — al, 16 May 2022
  • The life-size bovine who lives on John’s gable has turned in her rainbow Pride scarf for a red, white and blue rocket.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
  • However, most of the phosphatidylserine used back then was derived from the bovine cortex.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Most colostrum supplements on the market are sourced from bovine (cow) colostrum, but they can be sourced from other mammalian milk as well.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Hey, Colorado, ya stinkin’ bovine bums, don’t let the door hit’cha in your hairy Rocky Mountain rumps.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 27 July 2023
  • At Mountain Horse Farm, the bovines are never milked and will never be used as a source of meat.
    — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Big game species include Himalayan tahr, a type of wild goat; chamois, a goat-antelope bovine; and wapiti deer.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The grave also contained ribs and bones of four other horses, a dog skull, and bovine remains that may have been offerings of food.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The 6-inch long, 3-inch wide vessel has an opening along the bovine’s back and her tail forms a handle big enough to get a finger through.
    — Juliet Izon, wsj.com, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The test case—picturing a cow doing ballet—produces a smug bovine pirouetting.
    — Elise Broach, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

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