veldt

Example Sentences

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The high veldt rolled away, in shades of coffee and wheat.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2016

Also, square cars getting rounder, with Land Rover smoothing out its distinct boxy corners, ideal for the African veldt, to look like everything else.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2015

“In my mind, there was somebody roaring across the African veldt in a Jeep with a DVD beside him, past lions,” Mr. Sanders said.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2014

I'd see Mom fly past, then Faith, Doreen, Steven, Barbara, your mom, John, out of the window, over the barbed-wire fence, over the next fence into the veldt and under a thorn tree.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

It was three miles across the veldt, a mere black shadow upon the skyline, distinguished by its proximity to a local landmark, the "Jackal Tree," where the Boers had intrenched their Creusot gun.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus