How to Use kudu in a Sentence

kudu

noun
  • There is now a very proud kudu head hanging on my living room wall.
    Bella English, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Buffalo stand and stare, and spry kudu sprint away from passing safari cars.
    Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Hunting with this for steenbuck, blesbuck, warthog, and kudu was akin to grocery shopping with a stick-shift Corvette.
    Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Herds of zebra and impala and kudu, springbok and steenbok and oryx graze on carpets of desert grasses.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Not regular ram’s horn shofars, but the long curved Yemeni instruments made from the horn of the greater kudu, an African antelope.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Herds of kudu, impala, zebras and springbok cautiously tiptoed to quench their thirst, mindful of the predators in the bush.
    charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The Smithsonian’s National Zoo has announced the birth of one lesser kudu and the death of another.
    USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Como’s herd can be viewed daily in the outdoor zebra and kudu exhibit between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
    Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 24 July 2019
  • In the dining room of her island retreat, underneath a kudu horn chandelier from Rome, Ala is in her element.
    Carl Swanson, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2019
  • In the courtyard, an old man in a blue polo and a rumpled bathing suit was trying to coax a captive kudu—a species of large antelope, with corkscrew horns—into standing with him for a selfie.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The researchers focused on large plant-eaters—elephants, hippos, kudu—as information on small animals in conflict zones is hard to come by.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The best time to go may be in April, when large herds of elephants, buffalo, kudu, and the elusive eland return to the four (or mana in the local language) large permanent pools along the south bank of the Zambezi River after the rainy season.
    Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
  • Onguma’s guides treated me to numerous sightings of various antelope — kudu, steenbok and oryx, to name a few — and my favorite of them all: the tiny dik dik, standing little more than a foot high at the shoulder.
    Eric Vohr, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Onguma’s guides treated me to numerous sightings of various antelope — kudu, steenbok, and oryx, to name a few — and my favorite of them all: the tiny dik dik, standing little more than a foot high at the shoulder.
    Eric Vohr, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Springbok and kudu are overpopulated in parts of South Africa, so the government grants certain South African tribes a certain number of the animals to cull to help manage the population.
    Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
  • African farmers, ranchers and sportsmen have been hunting native impala, oryx, blesbok, warthogs, kudu, wildebeest, waterbuck, and all the rest (even buffalo, lion, and elephant) with medium caliber, medium power cartridges for more than a century.
    Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 13 Jan. 2020

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