How to Use gazelle in a Sentence

gazelle

noun

• The Akron Zoo this week announced the birth of a Speke’s gazelle calf.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
• There’s no room to pity the gazelles who must tiptoe around him.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
• In the wild, fewer than 500 Dama gazelles exist, the zoo said.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• There are ways for a 6’10’’ player who moves like a gazelle to get open.
  — Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Habitat loss has pushed the dama gazelle to the fringes of the sub-Saharan desert.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The gazelle, of course, runs and runs and runs, but always gets eaten.
  — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 3 June 2018
• Guys like Evan Neal will open up holes in the line to let Saquon Barkley run through the defense like a gazelle.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 7 Sep. 2022
• One adorable cub gnaws on what looks to be a Thomson gazelle fawn’s lower leg.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2019
• The lions exert dominance, the gazelles leap, the birds flutter and the grasses blow in the breeze.
  — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2019
• In an England of mass hangings, what was the shooting and skinning of one gazelle?
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• How so? Dama gazelle, or addra gazelle Sahel is a shy dama gazelle.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Two gazelles, a male and a female, seek each other out in the mating season.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• In Turkey, the gazelle was forgotten and thought to no longer exist.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• Look at that, as graceful as a gazelle fleeing from a cheetah.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 18 May 2018
• Willie’s more slender and more of a gazelle, runs the floor unbelievably well.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• The gazelles are wooden and silver and a real one is even spotted at the Portland Zoo.
  — Robert Allen Papinchak | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The grilling season is upon us, like a lion upon a gazelle.
  — Daniel Neman, Twin Cities, 4 July 2019
• The African connection is also made by a few mash-ups that are half human, half gazelle.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• That gazelle-like stride, the socks pulled up higher than socks were meant to go — unmistakable.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• But then, his menagerie is gone too; gazelles, peacocks, giraffes, even reindeer once roamed these grounds.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
• One morning, her group spied a cheetah in low grass, enjoying a breakfast of baby gazelle while the rest of the herd watched.
  — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2020
• Soon afterward, Oppenheim purchased a teacup, saucer and spoon and wrapped them in the fur of a Chinese gazelle.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
• If that’s the case, Johnson’s play perhaps best mimics a gazelle, known for its swiftness and agility.
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021
• Like a gazelle galloping through a meadow, Imani Perez maneuvers up and down the floor for the Mullen Mustangs.
  — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Keep track of the gazelles, a set of twin cannonballs, and a red chandelier scattered throughout the novel.
  — Robert Allen Papinchak | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Six-legged gazelle spotted in Israel Does debt relief work?
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
• Five foot three and compact as a gazelle, Anikeeva is a marathon runner, a rock climber, and one heck of a scientist.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• The structure’s two long converging walls would funnel stampedes of gazelles into the body of the kite, where they would be slaughtered.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• Question 8 of 10 Dama gazelles have pretty cool headgear.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024