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How to use hippo in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Hippo means an armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force. Example: “She aquacised the hippos in the zoo's pond before feeding them.”

More sentences with hippo

  • She aquacised the hippos in the zoo's pond before feeding them.From the entry aquacise
  • He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.From the entry monkey
  • We know that they're not pigs, some scientists think they're related to hippos, and others the andrewsarchus.2016, Theo Fischer, The Forgotten Monsters of Prehistory, page 55. From the entry andrewsarchus
  • First we get pygmy hippos blown up, then we come across a dwarf skeleton.2016, Paul Johnston, Skeleton Blues. From the entry microphilia
  • My real life angel is my very own velvet hippo named Angel, and she is magical.2014, Rebecca Corry, "Dog Moms Making A Difference: Rebecca Corry", American Dog, Winter 2014, page 22. From the entry velvet hippo
  • The whippo lineage may have developed a watery lifestyle even before the hippos and whale branches diverged.1999 November, Richard Monastersky, “The Whale's Tale: Searching for the landlubbing ancestors of marine mammals”, in Science News, volume…. From the entry whippo
  • They thought about pulling ashore to camp, however bloats of hippos, teams of crocks, and swarms of mozzies changed their minds.2026, Santiago Dizon, Joanne and the Headhunters. From the entry bloat
  • This belief is borne out by the other Gorozamzi Hills cave paintings, which represent elephants, hippos, deer, and giraffe.2010, Brad Steiger, Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside, →ISBN. From the entry life
  • Men prefer feminine women, and there’s nothing feminine about hippos.1980 April 21, Been There [pseudonym], “Dear Abby: Americans Want More Than Orientals Express”, in The Daily News Journal, 132nd year…. From the entry ladylike
  • The hippo heard us, and, like a baseball player caught off base, tried to get back to the river.1907, Richard Harding Davis, chapter 5, in The Congo and Coasts of Africa. From the entry off base
  • “Hippo, what are you working on?2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (3:18 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Hippocampus (Duncan…. From the entry irons in the fire
  • I had this dream last night where I was at my grandparents’ house when a large plastic hippo started sliding backwards up the driveway.2022 November 5, NyFlow_, “Reality checks work during dreams, but it’s like I’m not really lucid and can’t ground myself for some reason.…. From the entry reality check
  • In the dry season, when the Mara becomes narrower and shallower, certain stretches of it become especially thick with hippos—and their dung.2018 May 16, Ed Yong, “Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die”, in The Atlantic. From the entry mara
  • As an example of this confusion, transitional forms are not to be sought between equally derived living whales and their closest living relatives, the hippos.2012, Keith B. Miller, “Countering Common Misconceptions of Evolution in the Paleontology Classroom”, in Margaret M. Yacobucci, Rowan…. From the entry whippo
  • I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle. From the entry frowst
  • One evening I crawled into the pup tent I was sharing with John Yost on a beach pockmarked with hoofprints across from a bloat of hippos blowing their tubas.2023, Richard Bangs, The Art of Living Dangerously: True Stories from a Life on the Edge, Globe Pequot, page 109. From the entry bloat
  • Other island examples include pygmy hippos, pygmy deer, pygmy foxes, and the peculiar “mouse-goat”—an extinct species of dwarf sheep that had lived on the Balearic Islands of Spain.2011, Dennis McCarthy, Here Be Dragons. From the entry mouse-goat

Meaning of hippo

  1. noun An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force.
  2. noun An overweight or obese person.
  3. noun Hippopotamus Defence.

Full definition of hippo

Questions about hippo in a sentence

How do you use hippo in a sentence?
Hippo is used as a noun. For example: “She aquacised the hippos in the zoo's pond before feeding them.”
What is a short sentence with hippo?
““Hippo, what are you working on?”
What does hippo mean?
Hippo means an armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force.

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