How to Use water buffalo in a Sentence

water buffalo

noun
  • First the goats, then the cows, then the water buffalo with their long black snouts.
    — Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But anybody who moves here may have to deal with the water buffalo.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
  • On the drive out, the water buffalo is groaning on the ground.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The chief’s spear hangs in my office, over the head of the water buffalo.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
  • But there are also cheeses made from camel milk, water buffalo milk – even moose milk.
    — Stephanie Clark, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2020
  • There were fewer cars, and herds of water buffalos coming back from the fields.
    — James Syhabout With John Birdsall, Bon Appetit, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The crackdown is driving more dairy farmers to swap their cows for water buffaloes.
    — Anindya Upadhyay, Bloomberg.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • There was a water buffalo scene that got deleted, what happened?
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • No one on the ground was injured, but a water buffalo was killed in the incident.
    — CBS News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • So Faythe found a small herd of water buffalo and gave them to David for his birthday.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 June 2021
  • Just one frog's worth of epibatidine is enough to kill a water buffalo.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The same goes for the water buffalo populations that could also be seen as a pest.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Our headlight catches a hobbling water buffalo whose front leg was cut in half by shrapnel.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Scrap metal was valuable, so villagers hauled away most of the plane’s wreckage on carts drawn by water buffalo.
    — New York Times, 24 May 2022
  • Why does the climactic duel take place amid a stampede of water buffalo?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • One farmer was miraculously able to load a water buffalo aboard a canoe.
    — Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Guests can try their hand at rice planting or bathing the resident water buffalo (a pampered pink-and-black pair).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2026
  • The mutton and water buffalo kebabs, topped with liquid butter, melt with each bite.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Along the highway, palm trees, stray dogs and water buffalo punctuate the dusty landscape.
    — Alfred Miller, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2019
  • At one point, a water buffalo toppled into a trench dug for fiber-optic lines and had to be extracted from the mud.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
  • No idea—not even a stunt sequence involving a water buffalo crossing a river—was too wild.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 6 July 2023
  • Confections soon followed, some made from water buffalo’s milk and others made with cow’s.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2021
  • What happens to a water buffalo hit by an explosive 20-mm round is not pleasant.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In the wild, the dominant predators can ambush deer, goats, pigs, and have even been known to take down horses and water buffalo.
    — Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Their life now is isolating, their home a tiny space encased by mud, with a few water buffalo and goats that were on loan but have since had to be returned.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • As sunset nears, the land exhales with the cough of water buffalo, ticking toads, and an elephant’s trumpet in the distance.
    — Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Come the first day of school, some children walk, some catch the bus, and some step into slim wooden boats and paddle their way past galumphing water buffalo.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
  • An Asiatic water buffalo blocked the road, unimpressed by the Jeep.
    — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Behind them in the quiet palm groves and rice paddies, the sight of young boys on water buffaloes offered an illusion of bucolic seclusion.
    — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Cloistered in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, Palanan’s farmers cross fields on the backs of loping water buffaloes.
    — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017

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