Example Sentences

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The viral footage showed visitors jumping out of safari vehicles, crowding riverbanks and forcing wildebeests into crocodile-infested waters - sparking outage.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

The term climate migration has an orderly, almost bucolic ring to it, evoking as it does the age-old seasonal treks of caribou, wildebeests, and other charismatic species.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023

Because of the abundance there of grasses as sources of food, Africa’s savannas are home to a range of large grazing mammals including gazelles, wildebeests, elephants, ostriches, and zebras.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Instead, the wildebeests milled about or rested in acacia shade, and the zebras did a lot of standing around, motionless, like they were trying to remember something they’d just forgotten.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023

The Big Match You and Coby are on teams that like each other as much as crocs and Kenyan wildebeests.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander