How to Use antelope in a Sentence

antelope

noun
Definition of antelopenext
Synonyms for antelopenext
  • Keep your eyes peeled for pronghorn antelope, coyotes, and foxes.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The birds can sometimes be used for hunting and can catch animals as large as deer and antelope.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Many dream of a ranch where the deer and the antelope roam, but who needs swaths of land when an ultra-modern residence is up for grabs on the scenic edge of Boulder, Colorado?
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The ranch is where the deer and the antelope — along with the bighorn sheep and the elk — all play.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Among saiga antelopes, the month of May ought to be about new life.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Today, there are only around 140 of the antelopes in the wild.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Giant Elands are said to be the largest antelopes in the world and can weigh more than 2,000 pounds, according to the zoo.
    — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 11 July 2019
  • In less than an hour, the rangers find two more homemade snares, the third attached to the leg of an eland, the world's largest antelope.
    — Scott McLean, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The antelope was 7 years old, and would have turned 8 on July 30, Bright said.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 12 June 2024
  • At worst, most of the last remaining antelopes are dead.
    — Thomas Rabeil, National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
  • With thousands crossing the Mara River at the same time, scores of the antelopes are swept away by the current.
    — National Geographic, 19 June 2017
  • And if a species lives in woodland, like the kudu -- a kind of antelope -- it won't be spotted from a plane.
    — Michael Cross; Story By Tom Page, CNN, 9 July 2020
  • The eland antelope got out when a tree fell during a storm and broke the paddock that she and her mate were housed in.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • The addax is a rare antelope species native to the Sahara Desert in Africa.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
  • Teams in the hunt try to kill antelope with no more than one shot per animal.
    — Mead Gruver, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
  • Mule deer, bighorn sheep, elk and pronghorn antelope have all been released in the preserve.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The wildebeests, also called gnus, are a type of African antelope and a subspecies of the blue wildebeest.
    — Bryce Airgood, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2018
  • The tragic death comes ahead of what would have been the antelope's eighth birthday in July.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • The winner always gets a prize — in this case, an antelope antler that Seftel had found on a walk in the Wyoming woods.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Horns on sheep and antelope are more porous than antlers.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Two greater kudu, a type of African antelope, died during the storm, according to a news release from the zoo.
    — Shelby Reynolds, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Axis deer and black buck antelope were among the hardest hit.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Between the baby klipspringer antelope and the mating koalas, the first two episodes alone will wrap you in a blanket of warm fuzzies the size of a pup tent.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Aside from not enough heat, there were also too many antelope.
    — Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The study team had first thought nomadic hunters moved between distant kites with the migrations of herds of gazelles and antelopes.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • African antelope grazed here, and hippos wallowed in the muddy waters of the lake.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The losing dish is from Nelson and Gabriel, who made crispy-skin steelhead trout with antelope and chanterelles.
    — Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • Your alarm clock might be the sound of monkeys playing in the trees — or warthogs and antelope walking beneath your tent.
    — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The park is home to 70 mammal species, from bush pigs and forest antelopes to red colobus monkeys and a dozen other species of primates.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • As little as a hundred years ago, large, bustling herds of these long-horned antelope roamed the arid plains of Northern Africa.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018

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