Used in a Sentence

cattle

How to use cattle in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for cattle.

Editorial note

Add to that experience the long security lines and being treated like cattle... nah.

Examples21
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cattle gathered in one view.

noun

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cattle.

noun

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

Example sentences

1

Add to that experience the long security lines and being treated like cattle... nah.

2

Nothing says, "We corral the cattle in this space" better than this kind of plan. I have similar issues with cube farms, why not just build offices then?

3

If you don't like cattle prodding, what do you suggest instead? Not eating meat or drinking milk is not going to be an acceptable answer.

4

How minimal is a lifestyle that wastes good soy protein to raise beef cattle? Real minimalists take less than their fair share, not more.

5

I guess it's another recruiter wondering why he gets no respect from the cattle he handles...

6

Air travel is a glorified cattle car unless you're willing to be financially raped for first class or a chartered jet.

7

Groupon is a fundamentally bad business and I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot cattle prod. Some say that we know they're not profitable but that's really not the point.

8

So Tramadol was given to cattle in such large amounts that it made it into the soil and enough got soaked up by trees that it was thought that Tramadol came from those trees. That is just incredible.

9

I cannot imagine a future in which they do not look back and think "Food was cheaper in their age than at any point before or since, but they fed their children worse than cattle. How could a school have computers but no fruit?"

10

Human beings aren't cattle. Contrary to what many high school administrators might think, teenagers deserve the right to not be treated as such.

11

If you want that Star Trekky future, throw the corporations out who want to partition everyone into markets like cattle. Then build stuff for the good of humanity, not for cash.

12

That you are literally compelled in the sense that cattle are driven together, like the Latin word compellere? Or that youre literally calling out the title to fight?

13

For beef farms, ranchers birth and keep cattle for a specific period of time, at which point they are sold to feedlot operators. The feedlots have thousands of cattle are where many of the nasty issues with disease/etc come from.

14

"Human beings aren't cattle." Approaching an airport security control a while back where security agents where shouting "Remove your shoes, belts and jackets, and move along!"

15

Also, I envision the marketer thinking of me as part of a herd of cud-chewing cattle, or worse, like one of the people on the conveyer belt in Relead's god-awful landing page [1]. It's angering in some low-level way.

16

Rofl -- yes indeed, microsoft continues on its "buying dairy cattle for beef" acquisition strategy.

17

Frequently, people in a hiring position treat prospective candidates like cattle. They forget there is a human being behind that resume or portfolio.

18

Most, in fact almost all, beekeeping is industrial farming, equivalent to factory farming chickens or cattle. And it has devastated the bees.

19

Move to a homestead in the pacific northwest, never use a telephone, never use grid power, grow your own vegetables, grow your own cattle, and keep away from the evil, scary spies at gooooogggllleeee who are trying to... uh...

20

<< I'd like to see the United States follow that lead immediately, and I write this as a man who has several uncles and cousins who are farmers, including some who raise cattle. It makes sense to me to have lines of defense against transmission of animal-infecting, and especially antibiotic-resistant-animal-infecting, microbes to human beings, by controlling what animals raised as lifestock eat and how they are treated with veterinary medicines.

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I'd like to see the United States follow that lead immediately, and I write this as a man who has several uncles and cousins who are farmers, including some who raise cattle. It makes sense to me to have lines of defense against transmission of animal-infecting, and especially antibiotic-resistant-animal-infecting, microbes to human beings, by controlling what animals raised as lifestock eat and how they are treated with veterinary medicines.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cattle in a sentence?

Add to that experience the long security lines and being treated like cattle... nah.

What does cattle mean?

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

What part of speech is cattle?

cattle is commonly used as noun.