Example Sentences

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Dog handler Carla Shoobert said they use dogs naturally inclined to pursue the gulls, such as Australian kelpies and border collies.

From Reuters • Feb. 17, 2022

Since most Scottish lochs, they believed, had water kelpies, why shouldn't Loch Ness have one?

From Time Magazine Archive

All around is the immemorial home of kelpies, bogles, Warlocks, White Ladies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Natives of the district have for centuries been seeing kelpies, bogies, wills-o'-the-wisp.

From Time Magazine Archive

His thoughts were all of water monsters, of giant serpents, of demons, kelpies, and sprites...

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling