How to Use kudu in a Sentence

kudu

noun
  • There is now a very proud kudu head hanging on my living room wall.
    — Bella English, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Buffalo stand and stare, and spry kudu sprint away from passing safari cars.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The kudu is my favorite African antelope.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Giant East Cape kudu, nyala, waterbuck, and eland are just the start.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
  • Herds of zebra and impala and kudu, springbok and steenbok and oryx graze on carpets of desert grasses.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Zebras, kudu, lions—all such unpredictable beasts.
    — The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Unlike the gemsbok, who likes open or thinly brushed desert, the kudu feels most at home in the brush and is generally found there.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Hunting with this for steenbuck, blesbuck, warthog, and kudu was akin to grocery shopping with a stick-shift Corvette.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Two greater kudu, a type of African antelope, died during the storm, according to a news release from the zoo.
    — Shelby Reynolds, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But silently paddling past undisturbed waterbuck and kudu reveals a hidden world.
    — Alexandra Owens, AFAR Media, 10 Feb. 2025
  • My heart started hammering when Will climbed onto a rocky bluff to spy on a troop of baboons and came within feet of a massive kudu.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 13 June 2025
  • Bill Ruger, the arms manufacturer, made a long shot at a kudu in northern Kenya on a mountain that was bare enough for sheep.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Native to Nigeria and surrounding parts of Africa, greater kudu are a species of large woodland antelope.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Milwaukee County Zoo's family of greater kudu has grown.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Not regular ram’s horn shofars, but the long curved Yemeni instruments made from the horn of the greater kudu, an African antelope.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • The researchers focused on large plant-eaters—elephants, hippos, kudu—as information on small animals in conflict zones is hard to come by.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But on that morning, the park’s open vistas allowed for herds of buffalo to gather unimpeded as kudu looked on, preening and showing off their spiral horns.
    — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
  • In the dining room of her island retreat, underneath a kudu horn chandelier from Rome, Ala is in her element.
    — Carl Swanson, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Jews of Yemenite heritage use the kudu antelope, whose spectacularly long horns produce a strikingly deep sound.
    — Sarah Pessin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In the courtyard, an old man in a blue polo and a rumpled bathing suit was trying to coax a captive kudu—a species of large antelope, with corkscrew horns—into standing with him for a selfie.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The Smithsonian’s National Zoo has announced the birth of one lesser kudu and the death of another.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The Aldabra tortoises, giraffes, elephants, kudu, bonobos, coatis and gorillas all headed toward their barns.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Her guiding skills led us to incredible sightings, including a pair of lions chasing a herd of kudu, a pod of hippos sunning themselves, and dozens of elephants enjoying a mud bath.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Paradise flycatchers fervently follow kudu and bushbuck, feeding on mosquitoes and other flying insects that mill around the antelope.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Bosede is the first kudu calf born at the Milwaukee County Zoo since his sister Chula was born there in August 2023.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Located just outside the center of town, the property sits on the edge of a hillside, overlooking the surrounding bush, and there’s a busy waterhole that regularly attracts elephant, buffalo, warthog and kudu.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Springbok and kudu are overpopulated in parts of South Africa, so the government grants certain South African tribes a certain number of the animals to cull to help manage the population.
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The best time to go may be in April, when large herds of elephants, buffalo, kudu, and the elusive eland return to the four (or mana in the local language) large permanent pools along the south bank of the Zambezi River after the rainy season.
    — Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
  • The morning may have started with an abundance of zebra herds — also known as dazzles or zeals of zebra — but it’s evolved into a Noah’s Ark-like afternoon, complete with elephants, wildebeest, crocodiles, hippos, giraffes, kudu, and fish eagles.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2023

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