How to Use cow in a Sentence

cow

1 of 2 noun
  • The cows need to be milked twice a day.
  • Carl sent out two quick cow calls.
    — Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This one is a farmer and a cow.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Do not mess with the cow, er, park!
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Williams is the clear bell cow of the bunch.
    — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Two of us thought goat's milk, one of us thought cow's milk.
    — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The cows were waiting for me there.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Rumor has it there was a cow on the rails.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • There are only dead dogs and cow bones.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • The cows eat the grass, then produce milk.
    — Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Some of the cattle were cows with calves.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2026
  • Or whether this cow has turned into a pig?
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Yet, dairy cows endure this again and again.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 May 2026
  • And where did most of the blue-ribbon cows go?
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Barnes was a bell cow in the first half with 80 yards.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Ed called out, one more time, and the cow looked at him and then stood.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
  • What you’re supposed to do is let the cows go.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This is colostrum, but not from cows and not for babies.
    — Maggie Turner, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, many heart valves are made from cow or pig parts.
    — Matthew Perrone, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • For instance, many heart valves are made from cow or pig parts.
    — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 13 June 2026
  • Rip and the boys come across a dead cow that's been eaten by wolves.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Your cow is now composed of some spots and a few shadows.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • Below, on the open flat, a lone cow was feeding.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The cow or chicken choice seemed rather crucial at the time.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • You guys can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • In states where bird flu has been found in dairy cows, raw milk products are still sold.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The video showed two cows walking across her driveway.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • In the distance, cows grazed on rolling meadows.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2025
  • In the distance, cows grazed on rolling meadows.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • But this time, cows were found roaming downtown.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025

cow

2 of 2 verb
  • I refuse to be cowed by their threats.
  • No one was cowed by the threat.
    — Katherine Packert Burke, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Mother cows bond deeply with their calves.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Dolan has heard such threats before, and does not seem cowed.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • From seashell earrings to cow print bikinis these trendy items are must-haves.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 2 Aug. 2019
  • But you’d be hard put to find two men the heavens are less likely to cow.
    — The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Where others might be cowed or moved to tears, Peyton is amused.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Many media figures might be cowed by the string of beatdowns.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The notion of cow tipping is based on the idea that cows sleep standing up.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Mar. 2026
  • If the Democrats are cowed by that threat, their leaders are not showing it.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Not everyone who does not cow to him has a low IQ.
    — Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • We cannot be cowed into quiescence.
    — Brian Kolp, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But our backs are against the wall and if we are cowed by fear now, there won’t be another chance to speak out.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The rallies spread to many areas as protesters vowed not to be cowed.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The products are made for babies who are allergic to cow’s milk.
    — Kevin Freking, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
  • Most fledgling cooks would be cowed by the idea of preparing a meal for Boulud.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The second problem is the amount of methane that cows create.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 8 Sep. 2017
  • But Pashinyan — who was widely expected to win — was far from cowed.
    — Washington Post, 3 May 2018
  • In a different era, the smack of the speaker’s ruler would have cowed the upstarts.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • But she too isn’t cowed by ICE’s violence.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • School curriculums were sanitized; the press was cowed.
    — Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But cowed by public outcry and lack of consensus, never acts.
    — Christine Romans, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
  • In some countries, heads of state or government stepped down, cowed by the demonstrations.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Still, the stereotype of the Spirit customer was not of a traveller cowed by a need to be thrifty.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Toman, meanwhile, hadn't been cowed at all by the trademark McManus bad luck.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • They won’t be cowed by Jones’ colossal wealth and arrogance, nor by politician threats.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
  • CEOs are cowed by the list, the FT’s Gillian Tett says.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Too often the loss of housing can be used as a legal weapon by abusers to cow partners into submission.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • These days many governments that want to cow their critics are as likely to use the taxman as the secret police.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Was the attack used to cow the Soviets as much as the Japanese?
    — Michael Auslin, WSJ, 23 July 2023

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