How to Use wildebeest in a Sentence

wildebeest

noun
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  • The wildebeest will retreat to the far end of their exhibit, away from the source of the noise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
  • The longer option in the Serengeti gets you to the famed wildebeest migration.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Imagine that some of the wildebeest in a herd have genes that program them to live for, say, 20 years.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2011
  • And, in a roundabout way, wildebeests would profit, too, as part of the greater ecosystem.
    — Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • These are the landscapes with lions, elephants and vast herds of wildebeest.
    — Caroline Lehmann, Quartz Africa, 28 July 2019
  • In the northern part of their route, the wildebeest must repeatedly cross the mighty Mara River—and many fail.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
  • Head out to the canvas tents of the Ubuntu Camp to post up in prime wildebeest territory.
    — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Talley paid thousands of dollars to bag a wildebeest at a hunting ground in Texas.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 7 June 2019
  • One of the most famous herd movements is the blue wildebeest between wet and dry seasonal ranges in the Serengeti ecosystem of Africa.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2021
  • They have even been known to come to the rescue of wildebeest under attack by crocodiles.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The park is also home to an array of wildlife, including the springbok, Cape mountain zebra, black wildebeest, and the bat-eared fox.
    — Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Lenny and Jeffrey, two male eastern white-bearded wildebeests, can now be seen with the zebras in the zoo's African grasslands habitat.
    — Bryce Airgood, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2018
  • Fifty-one local kids ages 6-15 have rehearsed for three weeks and will be playing the parts of lions, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests and more.
    — Bettina Hansen, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2017
  • Imagine a grand and glorious male lion, six feet long and weighing at least 400 pounds, in a fight to death with a pack of hyenas over a juicy wildebeest kill.
    — Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2021
  • Trek the dunes of Namibia, photo-safari in the wildlife-rich wetlands of Botswana, or watch the migrations of wildebeests, giraffes, and rhinos across Kenya.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 15 Mar. 2019
  • Once the wildebeests were secured and their babies born, the experiment began in earnest.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
  • For more than 20 years, wildebeest migrations have been tracked by GPS, providing a close-up look at the risks and rewards of one of the last large-mammal migrations in the world.
    — National Geographic, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Creative and local meals are each as nourishing and beautiful as the black wildebeests, giraffes, and elephants down the hill.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2023
  • If wildebeests mated all across the calendar year, their sparse youngsters would be picked off by predators at every turn.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
  • On the other hand, black wildebeest are producing more young, say the Tompkins, perhaps as a reaction to lions preying on the species.
    — CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Blue wildebeest, scimitar oryx, blackbucks, and wild hogs also can be seen on the property.
    — Gabriel Romero, Chron, 29 July 2022
  • Your guide drives you alongside zebras and wildebeests and herd after herd of impalas, the hot-supermodel versions of deer.
    — Caity Weaver, GQ, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The list doesn't include even one of the big wild mammals for which Africa is famous — its zebras and wildebeests, its rhinos and hippos, its giraffes and Cape buffalo.
    — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Star Outfitters is one of the many hundreds of hunting ranches in Texas that stock their grounds with exotic animals like the wildebeest.
    — Ines Novacic, CBS News, 9 June 2019
  • Counting swarms of restless humans is like trying to estimate the size of schools of sardine in the sea or herds of wildebeests migrating across the African savanna.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Everyone wants to write about seeing a cheetah in the wild or feeling the thundering migration of wildebeest.
    — Spud Hilton, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2018
  • Polar bears, whales, penguins, seals, wildebeest, and more have all been captured by satellite remote sensing.
    — Helena Pozniak, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Within the crater rim a daily wildlife drama is played out as large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby lions, leopards, elephants and black rhinos.
    — Julian Harrison, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • When the team spotted a group of blue wildebeest in a clump of trees, N!Ani /Ui, the apprentice tracker, pulled from his quiver an arrow tipped with a deadly poison extracted from beetle larvae.
    — Bydimitri Selibas, science.org, 13 June 2024
  • However, the terrifying wildebeest stampede that led to Mufasa’s death was the most challenging sequence to pull off, taking more than a year to complete.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 13 July 2024

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