How to Use antelope in a Sentence

antelope

noun
  • Among saiga antelopes, the month of May ought to be about new life.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • All of these are large antelope.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The eland is the largest antelope.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Aside from not enough heat, there were also too many antelope.
    — Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The ranch is where the deer and the antelope — along with the bighorn sheep and the elk — all play.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There are deer in those draws, antelope on the plateau, and elk in the mountains.
    — Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Teams in the hunt try to kill antelope with no more than one shot per animal.
    — Mead Gruver, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
  • The boys point out a lizard, an antelope squirrel and a Joshua tree.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Axis deer and black buck antelope were among the hardest hit.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Mule deer, bighorn sheep, elk and pronghorn antelope have all been released in the preserve.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • There’s all kinds of things with hooves, antelope and gazelle and deer and moose and horses and zebras.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The kudu is my favorite African antelope.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Today, there are only around 140 of the antelopes in the wild.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Zebras, warthogs, antelopes with horns that looked like long, twisted lollipops.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The mountain bongo is a rare antelope known for its brown skin and distinct white stripes.
    — ABC News, 9 May 2026
  • And if a species lives in woodland, like the kudu -- a kind of antelope -- it won't be spotted from a plane.
    — Michael Cross; Story By Tom Page, CNN, 9 July 2020
  • The eland antelope got out when a tree fell during a storm and broke the paddock that she and her mate were housed in.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • My antelope was feeding with another buck along the edge of a big water hole in a sage flat.
    — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The trackers plugged in data on a herd of roan antelope, then a single male cheetah.
    — Bydimitri Selibas, science.org, 13 June 2024
  • To encourage breeding, the team has set up four outdoor runs that each hold a pair of antelope.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2021
  • Wild antelope prance freely while bison lazily graze in pastures.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • An antelope on a ridge teasingly stares before bounding off up the rocky hill.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Frannie is an eastern or mountain bongo, which is one of the largest species of forest antelopes.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
  • Also avoid bats, monkeys and forest antelope, and do not enter caves or mines where bats may live.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In less than an hour, the rangers find two more homemade snares, the third attached to the leg of an eland, the world's largest antelope.
    — Scott McLean, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
  • African antelope grazed here, and hippos wallowed in the muddy waters of the lake.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Our antelope permits would cost $35 apiece.
    — Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Rough Creek Lodge had antelope sausage in a garlic roll with a chimichurri sauce.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The tragic death comes ahead of what would have been the antelope's eighth birthday in July.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • Back in Wyoming, my family hunted elk, antelope and deer for the meat.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023

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