How to Use musk ox in a Sentence

musk ox

noun
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  • 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 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
  • One month featured a man curled up next to musk ox named Guacamole.
    — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Our one reward in the game department was a lone musk ox bull, a fairly rare sight.
    — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
  • That musk ox was perhaps the last of the Alaska population.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2021
  • Two football fields distant stands a musk ox, chewing on grass.
    — Christopher Solomon, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • 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 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
  • Officials cannot yet say what will happen to the musk ox involved in the incident.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • All kinds of Alaska critters wander around the park: wood bison, bears, moose, elk, musk ox, lynx among others.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
  • The National Park Service advises people to stay at least 150 feet away from a musk ox.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Trebek's favorite animal was the musk ox, a hoofed wooly mammal native to the Arctic.
    — Julia M. Chan, CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Yet the musk ox amazingly still exists in today’s Arctic world.
    — Jan Brett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 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
  • His sculpture in the exhibition is a stylized face of granitic gneiss, its hair indicated by a tuft from a musk ox.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In season seven, Roland Welker wounded a musk ox with an arrow before ultimately stabbing it to death with a hunting knife and his bare hands.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 17 June 2022
  • Village officials will greet him at the town’s airstrip and bring him to the school, where community members will bring traditional food, which could include seal, walrus, moose or musk ox.
    — Time, 21 Jan. 2020
  • This musk ox of the northern forest near Wiseman is probably related to those pioneer creatures.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Early evidence with extant species such as musk ox, reindeer and horse suggests animal presence is changing the park landscape structure and cooling the ground.
    — Paul Mann, Smithsonian, 14 May 2018

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