How to Use heifer in a Sentence

heifer

noun
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  • For that show, Alex had hired a white woman to show his heifer.
    — Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bret chose a Red Angus heifer and has raised her since last July, when she was purchased.
    — Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
  • All of these are fired in the heat of the summer, in strings of 22 to 25 rounds, three strings in a day, which means that after each string, the barrel gets hot enough to brand a heifer.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There are the African sulcata tortoise and the bearded dragon, the chinchillas and the rabbits and the hedgehog; the horse and the heifers, the chickens and ducks, and the mama goats about to kid.
    — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Chad Mahler said the Charolais heifer is a breed of taurine beef cattle from the Charolais region in eastern France.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 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
  • Though he had once trained dolphins and sea lions, the idea of sidling up to a 900-pound heifer intimidated him somewhat.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2019
  • 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
  • The cows—a native Dutch breed called Meuse Rhine Issel—are milked by robots, each heifer producing up to 25 liters (6.6 gallons) of milk per day.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 22 July 2019
  • In 1964, a senior heifer from Graterford won first prize in her category.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 30 May 2018
  • 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
  • On that October morning in 2018, Ethan found his father dead in the heifer shed, his raincoat draped neatly over a door nearby.
    — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • On a steady platform, their research concluded, heifers likely won't spew their cud.
    — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • This summer, her daughter, Haley, entered her first heifer at the Washington County Fair and won first place in her class.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The steaks of the future, we are promised, will be indistinguishable from the finest Wagyu or Black Angus of our dreams, though not one heifer will be slaughtered and not one acre of land spoiled by a feedlot.
    — Nathaniel Rich, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Coyote Ridge will be represented at both events, of course, with Hampton Cornelius’ son, John, showing a heifer in the junior show.
    — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • There are two primary offerings: one wearable that helps detect when a heifer is in heat, and another that senses when the cow is about to give birth.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2020
  • Hundreds filled a pavilion at the fairgrounds in Franklin, Ind., on Monday night, where two decades of grand champion steers and supreme champion heifers are honored with a tally on the wall.
    — Matt Flegenheimer and Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2016
  • An additional 2,600 unloaded their heifers for what was supposed to be a multi-day event.
    — Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 20 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Increased respiratory rates, open-mouthed panting and droopy eyes and ears are all signs of an unhappy heifer.
    — Stephanie Blaszczyk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2019
  • Beside the cow barn at the fair, teenager Lindsey Nielsen is hosing off Wanda, her showcase breeding heifer, for the third or fourth time on this August day, when the heat index nudged 100 degrees.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2022

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