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• A good example is the eyestripe coloration pattern, which appears in sparrows, antelopes, and chipmunks.2009, James Gurney, “Dinosaurs”, in Imaginative Realism: How to Paint what Doesn’t Exist, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing…. From the entry eyestripe
• The bluebuck, or blue antelope, was the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times.2008, United Nations Environment Programme, Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, page 26. From the entry bluebuck
• Since childhood, I had given up giraffedom to become a turtle, or maybe a miniature antelope.1999, Mark Sumner, The Vampires of Vermont, page 15. From the entry giraffedom
• Antelope, evolutionarily speaking, are somewhere between cattle and sheep: some are cattle-like, and some are more ovine.1992, Colin Tudge, “The Frozen Zoo?”, in Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can be Stopped, Washington, D.C.; Covelo, Calif.…. From the entry ovine
• They are also sometimes called the Rupicaprine antelopes from the scientific name of the chamois (Rupicapra).1918, Geographical Review, volume 6, page 10. From the entry rupicaprine
• Supplied with water, any good marathoner probably has the endurance to chase down a zebra, antelope, or steenbok.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN. From the entry persistence hunting
• The name of the South African antelope, the rhebok, derives from Dutch reebok, and can be written reebok.2011, Christopher Upward and George Davidson, The History of English Spelling, Wiley, →ISBN, page 274. From the entry rhebok
• Made from chin hairs of very rare Tibetan antelope.2007, Paul Theroux, “Monkey Hill”, in The Elephanta Suite, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry shahtoosh
• The white-eared kob were joined by hundreds of thousands of mongalla gazelles and tiang, a species of antelope.2007 June 12, Carl Zimmer, “In Sudan, an Animal Migration to Rival Serengeti”, in New York Times. From the entry tiang
• When antelope are running flat out, they resemble very rapidly departing dots; some say they can hit 60 mph.1979 November, Bob Brister, “Apache Antelope”, in Field & Stream, page 128. From the entry flat out
• These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other.2012, Hiroaki Soma, The Biology and Management of Capricornis and Related Mountain Antelopes. From the entry rupicaprine
• These Mongolian antelopes lack the distended nose that characterizes the saiga, but males do develop a similarly curious enlarged throat sac during the mating season.2010, Paula Hammond, The Atlas of Endangered Animals: Wildlife Under Threat Around the World, page 195. From the entry zeren
• Snow stalled him in the timber; his food was all but gone when he managed to kill an antelope and jerk a supply of venison.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN…. From the entry jerk
• And I saw werewolves, centaurs, tigers, leopards, hyenas, camelopards or giraffes, and oryges, a variety of Egyptian unicorn with certain features of the antelope.1936, The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais, translation of original by François Rabelais, page 797. From the entry oryges
• Like small African antelopes, sengis spend their life exposed to the elements while relying on disruptive coloration to act as camouflage from the plethora of African predators.2010, Joseph F[rancis] Merritt, “Mating Systems and Reproductive Strategies”, in The Biology of Small Mammals, Baltimore, Md.: Johns…. From the entry sengi
• Maras have a white patch of fur on the rump that they flash when running, an adaptation they share with several species of deer and antelopes.1999, Michael A. Mares, editor, Encyclopedia of Deserts, Mara, page 349. From the entry mara
• In modern horn-bearing mammals, the bovids (such as sheep, cattle, and antelope), the horn sheath extends a variable, and often considerable, distance beyond the tip of the horn core.1998, Peter Dodson, The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History. From the entry horn-bearing
• In the southern territories of Tuva saiga antelopes were hunted successfully by the battue method, using horse as chasers, and log pens constructed before the hunt.1980, Sevyan Vainshtein, “Appropriative Economic Forms among the Tuvinian Nomads in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, in…. From the entry battue
• Notable in feminine footgear of the first two decades was the increasing number of different shoe leathers consisting of box calf, white calf, colored kids, buck and antelope.1948, R. Turner Wilcox, “Twentieth-century Footwear”, in The Mode in Footwear, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, OCLC 1356620…. From the entry shoe-leather
• Among the depictions are a black rhinoceros, the body of an antelope covered by a red line, two white animals with black stripes that may be zebras, and a therianthrope.2016, Carmel Schrire, Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry therianthrope
• Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, in The Telegraph. From the entry Internet hunt

Meaning of antelope

1. noun Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
2. noun The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
3. noun A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.

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How do you use antelope in a sentence?

Antelope is used as a noun. For example: “A good example is the eyestripe coloration pattern, which appears in sparrows, antelopes, and chipmunks.”

What is a short sentence with antelope?

“Made from chin hairs of very rare Tibetan antelope.”

What does antelope mean?

Antelope means any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.