Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: calves
IPA transcription: [k'ævz]
Usage examples
  • Boil four calves' feet until tender.
  • Simmer a calves' head for two hours.
  • Thicken the sauce with flour rubbed into butter and serve with the calves' head.
  • You will this year have four cows in milk, and you have two cow calves bringing up."
  • Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves' and sheep's eyes, and threw them in Gretel's face.
  • There were young foxes, bears, wolves, raccoons, fawns, buffalo calves and birds of all kinds, tamed by various boys.
  • I know how I shall be able to tell whether it is me; if the calves come and lick me, and our dog Tray doesn't bark at me when I get home, then it must be me, and no one else.'
  • 'Ah, deary me', said she, 'I thought so; it can't be me surely.' So she went to the straw-yard, and the calves wouldn't lick her, when they snuffed in the strong smell of tar.
  • The hand of Death, hovering over the dolls, had singled out Flora, the articulations of whose sawdust body were seams and whose boots were painted on her calves of fibrous plaster.
  • It was difficult for anyone, let alone a stranger like Emma, to get her to talk of the days that had been; her shrill, quavering speech was of doors that had been left unfastened, pails that had got mislaid, calves whose feeding-time was overdue, and the various little faults and lapses that chequer a farmhouse routine.