How to Use heifer in a Sentence

heifer

noun
  • For that show, Alex had hired a white woman to show his heifer.
    — Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Replacement heifers are down to a 20-year low.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Sanger noted that all of his missing cows are either cows or heifers, none are steers or bulls.
    — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • This way, a single dose of bull semen could be used to impregnate a whole lot of heifers.
    — Maureen O’Hagan, Quartz, 24 June 2019
  • The purchaser could buy a steer or heifer at $2,000 a head.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The aurochs was the wild ancestor of the modern cow, bull, steer, heifer, ox -- many names for one species.
    — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • To rebuild herds, ranchers must hold on to heifers rather than sending them out to meat processors.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Youngsters wearing cowboy boots and oversized belt buckles led heifers and steers around a shiny, new show area.
    — Sophie Hartley, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • On a steady platform, their research concluded, heifers likely won't spew their cud.
    — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • God himself was the one who showed Samuel how to lie by pretending to sacrifice a heifer.
    — Daniella Mestyanek Young, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The Hulls also grow corn and hay and raise Angus calves and replacement heifers.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The Hulls grow corn and hay and also raise Angus calves and replacement heifers.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026
  • When they got married, a family friend gave them a White Park heifer as a wedding present.
    — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 29 May 2026
  • Bret chose a Red Angus heifer and has raised her since last July, when she was purchased.
    — Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The cows are clipped and washed, Lippy said, then the heifers are given top lines using a hair dryer and clippers.
    — Libby Solomon, Howard County Times, 5 Aug. 2017
  • In the showmanship arena, judges are paying more attention to the handler than the heifer or lamb or steer.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • In the past three decades, the top four steer and heifer packers in our country have expanded their market share to 85%.
    — Cory Booker For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 25 July 2019
  • Most cows coming into California are heifers that do not yet produce milk.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • As part of this act of atonement, four bulls and four heifers are slaughtered at the sanctuaries of the nymphs, and their bodies are left in a grove.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There are no cowboys here, except on the movie screen, no horses and no cattle, except one blind heifer who is rudely abused by a gang of teenagers.
    — Gregory Curtis, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Everyone who catches a calf receives a dollar certificate to purchase a heifer or steer to show at the next year’s rodeo.
    — Emma Balter, Chron, 18 Mar. 2022
  • As the grazing heifers lifted their horns, their playful roughhousing seemed like a display of holiday cheer.
    — Arielle Gordon Alexandra Genova, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Just the sound of his South Georgia drawl can move a herd of half-ton heifers, so how much trouble could a 10-pound bird be?
    — Wyatt Williams, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Cow urine, which was obtained from a local farm's heifer, was used as the representative herbivore pee.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2018
  • Back at the ranch, heifers would start calving in a month, and wildflowers would begin to bloom, a rhythm, Church said, that will always be a part of him.
    — Meg Bernhard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • McKenzie has been to the fair multiple times for her own projects and currently has a beef commercial heifer, pigs and a market lamb.
    — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 July 2019
  • In 1964, a senior heifer from Graterford won first prize in her category.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 30 May 2018
  • If Pennsuco is dissolved, Graham said his company will continue to raise dairy heifers there.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Guided by generations of instinct, even a heifer, a first-time mother, almost always knows exactly what to do.
    — Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • An additional 2,600 unloaded their heifers for what was supposed to be a multi-day event.
    — Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 20 Apr. 2020

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