Used in a Sentence

goats

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for goats.

Editorial note

A neighborhood association brings a case in state court against a defendant who sacrifices goats in his backyard.

Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a popular webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg.

Meaning at a glance

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

N

a popular webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg.

N

a 2000 novel written by Mark Jude Poirier published by Hyperion with the strapline "Girls, ganga and goat-trekking"

N

a 2012 comedy-drama film directed by Christopher Neil and written by Mark Poirier based on his 2000 novel Goats.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for goats.

N

a popular webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg.

N

a 2000 novel written by Mark Jude Poirier published by Hyperion with the strapline "Girls, ganga and goat-trekking"

N

a 2012 comedy-drama film directed by Christopher Neil and written by Mark Poirier based on his 2000 novel Goats.

Example sentences

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A neighborhood association brings a case in state court against a defendant who sacrifices goats in his backyard.

2

Throw a complicated, not semantic API out there and sacrifice goats hoping that someone will use it?

3

It doesn't matter that it allows us to conceive of an absurd number of goats, like 1,000,000.

4

This is fascinating stuff - now they just need to feed genetically modified spider-goats graphene and see what happens!

5

Now you can actually build for ios and android, which wasn't possible before with modifying the UBT and sacrificing 3 goats.

6

The efficient way is to genetically-engineer goats to produce the silk from their teats.

7

On the upside, the farm family in question slaughters their own goats and they use every bit of them - nothing goes to waste.

8

Example: Seven Goats Hopped Seven Boats With Only a Spoon to Spare.

9

I could have been herding goats there, maybe as part of some a green eco-initiative project...

10

The theory of natural numbers is useful because it provides a simple formal way to accurately count the number of goats (and possibly other things).

11

The only numbers I've seen come from the Separating Programming Sheep From Non-Programming Goats papers by Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat: > We have discovered a test which divides programming sheep from non-programming goats.

12

I may take on a couple goats for milk but that would follow later.

Quote examples

1

Worse even, people that do not belief in parapsychological effects ("the goats") tend to do worse than random.

2

You could ask them "how many letters are in the last word of your rhyme, how many goats were there?"...

3

(How many people who claim to be able to program cannot create fizzbuzz in an hour even if you give them a description of modulo) I suspect that a lot of it comes from "programming sheep and goats", which was later withdrawn by its author.

Proper noun examples

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The entire magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman - also anything by Jon Ronson (particularly 'the Men Who Stare at Goats' or 'Them').

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use goats in a sentence?

A neighborhood association brings a case in state court against a defendant who sacrifices goats in his backyard.

What does goats mean?

a popular webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg.

What part of speech is goats?

goats is commonly used as N.