Example Sentences

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For instance, rock art in Zimbabwe mainly depicts kudu antelopes, she says, whereas similar San sites in nearby South Africa focus on another antelope, the eland.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024

Rock paintings, which were done with ingredients like eland blood and egg white, depict elephants, eland and other animals as well as processions of hunters and other scenes of daily life.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

I thought of the eland that Sacks had seen, as a child, emerging from the ceiling of the cave.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

These include buffalos, chimpanzees, forest elephants, leopards, lions and the icon of this park, the giant eland – an imposing antelope.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2018

“The older brother ran ahead. He came upon a dead eland and immediately cut it up into steaks. ‘How could you be so foolish?’ cried Biri when she saw what he had done.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer