Example Sentences

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Okapi are rare, zebra-like forest animals endemic only to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2022

Researchers identify zebra-like stripes of plasma in a patch of space.

From Scientific American • Jul. 18, 2015

Collection of magnetic data from the oceans continued in the early 1960s, but still nobody could explain the origin of the zebra-like patterns.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Throughout the 19th century, explorers of Africa reported glimpses of a zebra-like creature in the Ituri Forest of the Congo.

From Slate • May 23, 2012

Sweat had streaked through the charcoal coating on their faces leaving striped zebra-like countenances.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd