How to Use gazelle in a Sentence

gazelle

noun
  • There’s no room to pity the gazelles who must tiptoe around him.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
  • But if a gazelle leapt from the grass, their visual cortices lit up.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The gazelle, of course, runs and runs and runs, but always gets eaten.
    — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 3 June 2018
  • Mesquite trees for acacias, pronghorns for gazelles, meth heads for leopards.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Look at that, as graceful as a gazelle fleeing from a cheetah.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 18 May 2018
  • There are ways for a 6’10’’ player who moves like a gazelle to get open.
    — Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • One adorable cub gnaws on what looks to be a Thomson gazelle fawn’s lower leg.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Vast herds of zebra, wildebeest, and gazelle moved across the horizon.
    — Sherry McAllister, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But yaks, horses, and gazelles also appeared, along with two species of deer.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 July 2024
  • Two gazelles, a male and a female, seek each other out in the mating season.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • The team also found bones from animals such as fallow deer and gazelle.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • The Akron Zoo this week announced the birth of a Speke’s gazelle calf.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Habitat loss has pushed the dama gazelle to the fringes of the sub-Saharan desert.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But then, his menagerie is gone too; gazelles, peacocks, giraffes, even reindeer once roamed these grounds.
    — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
  • Willie’s more slender and more of a gazelle, runs the floor unbelievably well.
    — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • That gazelle-like stride, the socks pulled up higher than socks were meant to go — unmistakable.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • In the wild, fewer than 500 Dama gazelles exist, the zoo said.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In an England of mass hangings, what was the shooting and skinning of one gazelle?
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
  • While that’s true to a certain extent, an elephant will never outrun a gazelle.
    — Katrina Miller, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
  • In Turkey, the gazelle was forgotten and thought to no longer exist.
    — Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The African connection is also made by a few mash-ups that are half human, half gazelle.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • There are no elephants here—but don’t be surprised to find zebras or gazelles walking across the estate.
    — Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Embossed images of bulls, gazelles, lions and flowers adorn the diadems.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Her gait was compared variously to that of a gazelle and an antelope.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The beachside loungers offer front-row seats to fauna like dolphins, sea turtles, sand gazelles, and dugongs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The lions exert dominance, the gazelles leap, the birds flutter and the grasses blow in the breeze.
    — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The study team had first thought nomadic hunters moved between distant kites with the migrations of herds of gazelles and antelopes.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • One morning, her group spied a cheetah in low grass, enjoying a breakfast of baby gazelle while the rest of the herd watched.
    — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2020
  • If that’s the case, Johnson’s play perhaps best mimics a gazelle, known for its swiftness and agility.
    — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021

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