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How to use caribou in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Caribou means any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer. Example: “I caught some good shots of a wolf bearing against a caribou.”

More sentences with caribou

  • I caught some good shots of a wolf bearing against a caribou.From the entry bear against
  • Common varieties of quaq include caribou, seal, fish, and musk ox.2015, Alicia Z. Klepeis, The World's Strangest Foods. From the entry quaq
  • In my moving hands I will hold finger fans of caribou hair.2003, Jacques L. Condor, Raven's Children, →ISBN. From the entry finger fan
  • Oil interests threaten the Porcupine caribou herd -- the lifeblood of the Gwitchin people.1999, Raymond J. Parker, “A Natural Resource”, in Nature Canada, volumes 28-29, page 3. From the entry Gwitchin
  • As if in a midair strike, the caribou bull comes down to land upon the hunter.1988, Dan D. Gapen, Wilderness North, Whitewater Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2020, page 240. From the entry midair
  • A female caribou has antlers same as a bull, but a cow moose is a mulley.1929, Lowell Thomas, Woodfill of the Regulars, page 163. From the entry mulley
  • The wolves had not noticed the distant caribou, and Cris gave each a parka squirrel to hold them with him.2016, Lois Crisler, Arctic Wild, →ISBN. From the entry parka squirrel
  • Awareness about the identity of the currently chased caribou is very important for the implementation of the emergent behaviors, mentioned below.2013, D. Barbucha, M.T. Le, R.J. Howlett, Advanced Methods and Technologies for Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, page 55. From the entry chased
  • As tundra diminishes, animals that depend on it for food or nesting habitat—caribou and many birds—are likely to lose out.2004 summer, Bill Sherwonit, “Alaskan meltdown: On the frontlines of climate change”, in National Parks, Washington, D.C.: National Parks…. From the entry brushy
  • The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled.2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry wrap
  • The Nunivak Island game range in Alaska is the home of muskoxen, carideer (a cross between caribou and reindeer), and reindeer.1943, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1944: Hearings, volume 3…. From the entry carideer
  • Sometimes when we popped over a ridgeline, we would see a herd of caribou, a rangale of deer, and occasionally a small gang of elk.2025, Dominic M. Martin, Dad: A Son Remembers, Austin Macauley Publishers. From the entry rangale
  • Once we had the photos, it was just a matter of counting all the maggotlike images of caribou on the white snow background.1998, L David Mech, The Wolves of Denali. From the entry maggotlike
  • According to rumour , a tupilak could change size, from that of a fox to that of a caribou, and vice versa.1987, Donnerska institutet för religionshistorisk och kulturhistorisk forskning, Saami religion. From the entry tupilat
  • Twice a day the caribou was dressed in bells and led outside to pretend (with other deerish peers) that they had some vested interest in a fat man.2011, Jim Hanas, Chris Eaton, Natalee Caple, Joyland Trio Deal. From the entry deerish
  • In many regions, people went inland at the end of August (often travelling upriver in large sealskin boats called umiat) to hunt caribou till September or October.2002, Louis-Jacques Dorais, 'Inuit', Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, ed. Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto, page 135. From the entry umiak
  • Caribou Coffee resisted a similar median on South Estes Drive, and the town instead chose to require a “pork-chop” island in the driveway of Walgreens, making lefthand turns extremely difficult.2010 March 14, Jesse James DeConto, “Council approves new Walgreens”, in The Chapel Hill News, page 3A. From the entry pork-chop island

Meaning of caribou

  1. noun Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.

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Questions about caribou in a sentence

How do you use caribou in a sentence?
Caribou is used as a noun. For example: “I caught some good shots of a wolf bearing against a caribou.”
What is a short sentence with caribou?
“Common varieties of quaq include caribou, seal, fish, and musk ox.”
What does caribou mean?
Caribou means any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.

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