How to Use camelback in a Sentence

camelback

noun
  • If loft living isn't for you, the neighborhood is home to shotgun and camelback houses.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2018
  • Camels were the main source of transportation, and as semi-nomads, men, women, and children would travel on camelback.
    — Nicola Chilton, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Before the end you will be taken on a wild ride with a 540-degree helix, one spiral, a camelback hill and a carousel curve.
    — Julia Fawal, Woman's Day, 24 July 2015
  • Two women who lived on one side of the pink camelback duplex with two others said one of the cats that died was their's, and it was named Whitney Houston.
    — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The sidehall camelback with an Eastlake flair had been lovingly restored by the previous owner.
    — R. Stephanie Bruno, NOLA.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The furniture, arranged to highlight the focal-point piano, includes a camelback sofa that was given to Hillary by her mother.
    — Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Eight of those displaced lived in either side of the the bright pink double camelback where the fire started, and two others lived in a building next door that received damage to the attic, the chief said.
    — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The owner, Laurie Martin of Doors of Elegance, is now putting a camelback on the residence.
    — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The camelback made room for bedrooms for Ogden and Inger, and an open office for their parents, who mostly have been working from home since the pandemic began.
    — R. Stephanie Bruno, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Embark on a camelback Bedouin experience The nomadic Bedouin people traversed the region’s deserts for thousands of years with camels and livestock.
    — Adrienne Jordan, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • While temperatures were scorching Sunday afternoon, dehydration seemed like a long shot, with their pet dying and the camelback still containing water.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For the renovation, that camelback couch was custom-built and, most important, its distinctive fabric was re-created using a computer and a digital printing process.
    — Christie D'zurilla, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Head to the on-site post office turned museum for a lesson on Sharjah's history, or wind through the same alleys and interconnected souks that once welcomed Bedouin traders on camelback.
    — Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Slowly as a compromise to residents looking to move to the area but wanted more space, a whole new section is added to Bungalow homes resulting in the name, camelback Bungalows.
    — Dina Kesbeh, Houston Chronicle, 23 Oct. 2017
  • On camelback in the wide-open grasslands, the eyes line easily with the horizon, which means their eyes take in distance, proximity, an unpixelated spectrum, and unsimulated movement.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Standing at 42 feet, the first drop will also hold the record for the world's tallest reverse camelback drop on a water ride or flume, where boats travel backward down a slope and immediately climbs back up an airtime hill before leveling off.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • Driver has a significant supporting role in this Australian drama, inspired by the true story of Robyn Davidson's nine-month camelback trek across Australia.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • John's sister, Roshy, who had just married into an influential Iranian family, had to be smuggled on camelback to neighboring Pakistan.
    — Renata Cló, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2021

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