How to Use water buffalo in a Sentence
water buffalo
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First the goats, then the cows, then the water buffalo with their long black snouts.
—Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
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On the drive out, the water buffalo is groaning on the ground.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
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So Faythe found a small herd of water buffalo and gave them to David for his birthday.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 June 2021
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But anybody who moves here may have to deal with the water buffalo.
—Alexandra Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
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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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There were fewer cars, and herds of water buffalos coming back from the fields.
—James Syhabout With John Birdsall, Bon Appetit, 6 Mar. 2018
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The crackdown is driving more dairy farmers to swap their cows for water buffaloes.
—Anindya Upadhyay, Bloomberg.com, 23 Jan. 2018
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The 6,000 people who live in the marshes dwell in thatch huts and barns, relying on fishing and the raising of water buffaloes.
—Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
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But there are also cheeses made from camel milk, water buffalo milk – even moose milk.
—Stephanie Clark, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2020
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The same goes for the water buffalo populations that could also be seen as a pest.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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The most relentless began near dawn, when, on many days, one of us climbed out of our shared bed at the first sound of a grunting, bawling water buffalo at the front door.
—Indra Nooyi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
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The large horned animals scrawled on the walls are anoa, a species of water buffalo found only on Sulawesi.
—Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2019
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An Asiatic water buffalo blocked the road, unimpressed by the Jeep.
—Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
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Working with Asian honey bee hives in Vietnam, the team first of all had to collect dung from pigs, chickens, cows, and water buffalo.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 9 Dec. 2020
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Along the highway, palm trees, stray dogs and water buffalo punctuate the dusty landscape.
—Alfred Miller, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2019
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Just one frog's worth of epibatidine is enough to kill a water buffalo.
—Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Growing up, Karkare drank water buffalo milk, produced on a small farm in such a way that consumers only got milk that the calf would not drink in any case, says Karkare.
—Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 23 Apr. 2021
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In one instance, a water buffalo, Christmas lights dangling from a gash in its belly, dons S & M gear.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
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There was a water buffalo scene that got deleted, what happened?
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2023
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At the zoo, these animals feast on fish, rats and chunks of lamb, but in the wild, Komodo dragons often hunt deer, wild boar and even water buffalo.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
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Each Bateleur Camp guest is lent a pair of Swarovski binoculars to clearly see elephants and water buffalo on bush walks and game drives.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
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When Ward bent down to tie Baker's shoes, the drummer grunted and bellowed like a wounded water buffalo.
—Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2013
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The mutton and water buffalo kebabs, topped with liquid butter, melt with each bite.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2023
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What happens to a water buffalo hit by an explosive 20-mm round is not pleasant.
—USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
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As its name indicates, this cheese is made with the milk of the Italian Mediterranean buffalo — a species of water buffalo, to be specific.
—Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2021
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