How to Use musk ox in a Sentence

musk ox

noun
  • Those pieces include a cougar, a bison, a few deer, and a musk ox.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
  • One month featured a man curled up next to musk ox named Guacamole.
    — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Two football fields distant stands a musk ox, chewing on grass.
    — Christopher Solomon, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Our one reward in the game department was a lone musk ox bull, a fairly rare sight.
    — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Thankfully, the camp visitor was just a musk ox.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The man had killed a musk ox with his bare hands, butchered and dragged the enormous body over a mile in the snow to his one-person hut.
    — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Officials cannot yet say what will happen to the musk ox involved in the incident.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • So far, the park is home to reindeer, yakutian horses, moose, bison, musk ox, kalmykian cows, sheep, camels and goats.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Each bomb is about the length of two refrigerators laid down end to end and as heavy as the average adult male musk ox.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Yet the musk ox amazingly still exists in today’s Arctic world.
    — Jan Brett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The Nome Nugget reported the attack marks the first time that a person was killed by a musk ox in the city.
    — CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The original Cozy tells the story of Cozy the musk ox being left by himself in a big storm.
    — Jan Brett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • As the bear killed one musk ox, the other six fled—and, with them, the entire reason for the Zimovs’ perilous voyage.
    — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
  • Part of the farm's animal husbandry involves collecting the hair that's shed from musk ox undercoats each spring.
    — Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • Part of the farm’s animal husbandry involves collecting the hair that’s shed from musk ox undercoats each spring.
    — Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021
  • In a warming landscape, pregnant female musk oxen may struggle to find enough food for their unborn calves, the researchers found.
    — Author: Carl Zimmer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Trebek's favorite animal was the musk ox, a hoofed wooly mammal native to the Arctic.
    — Julia M. Chan, CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Grizzly bears and wolves thrive in the area, while moose, caribou, musk ox, and other species frequently succumb to predation.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 12 July 2023
  • Interpretive guides are available to show groups through the chutes that give an up-close look at the herds, and crafters will demonstrate their use of qiviut, soft musk ox wool.
    — Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2022
  • Previous research has largely focused on mammoths, as well as bison and musk ox, which thrived in the cold grasslands called tundra steppes.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The species at the heart of this year's work includes musk ox, penguins, snow leopards, saki and muriqui monkeys as well as the health of the oceans and aquatic species as a whole.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Around 500 feet from the mine is a beautiful lake, a water intake for Ivittuut, where tourists can walk and spot wild musk ox.
    — Katie Lockhart, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The oil — ever-present in households dotting Alaska coastlines — is used mainly as a dipping sauce for fish, caribou and musk ox.
    — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Reindeer, musk ox, and other creatures of cold areas have evolved similar means to survive in Arctic habitat.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2010
  • On Monday, morning, troopers received multiple calls about the musk ox in Kotzebue.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • There, visitors will be able to spot wildlife from polar bears to musk ox and caribou, as well as experience some of the highest tidal elevations in the world.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Subjects range from Gold Rush history to wildlife (musk ox), to details of the last Iditarod race.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • This musk ox of the northern forest near Wiseman is probably related to those pioneer creatures.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The musk ox on the farm are descendants of animals captured in northern Canada in the 1950s.
    — Bob Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2018
  • The musk ox has been a source of food for the Arctic territories indigenous populations who also use its fleece for warm clothing and tools.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025

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