Cows
Cows noun - Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.
Herd
Herd noun - A group of domestic animals assembled or herded together.
Both words in one sentence
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One of the sketches in the Bavarian TV special Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus was The Merchant of Venice acted by a herd of cows, in mooing with German subtitles.
Source: Everything's Better with Cows -
In the second version, Tex hooks a toy mooing box into the logo, making it sound like a large herd of cows, followed by the sound of a Thundering Herd, which scares him away.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude has a herd of cows that reproduce too quickly.
Source: Everything's Better with Cows
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Herd and Cows. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cows/herd
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