How to Use oryx in a Sentence

oryx

noun
  • My wife got the first oryx, a fine 40-in.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But the Arabian oryx held on in private reserves and zoos around the world.
    — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2019
  • There are species like dama gazelles, Grévy’s zebra, addax, scimitar oryx.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • How does the desert-dwelling oryx survive a body temperature that would kill other mammals?
    — smithsonianmag.com, 2 May 2017
  • How does the desert-dwelling oryx survive a body temperature that would kill other mammals?
    — smithsonianmag.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The company has even created a wildlife sanctuary on the land, with desert gazelle, ostrich, and oryx.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • In a country of elephants, oryxes, and giraffes, which loom so large in tourists’ minds, Siggy is in love with the smallest of beings.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2024
  • But by the early 1970s, the Arabian oryx was hunted to extinction in the wild.
    — Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Browse the Collection The Kalahari gemsbok or giant oryx is a big tough antelope about the size of a spike bull elk and with long, straight, very sharp horns.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Here, guests will meet their dedicated trackers to embark on a captivating nature drive, keeping a keen eye out for desert elephants, oryx, zebra and springbok.
    — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Starting out with just nine oryx captured from the wild, Phoenix Zoo, in the US, led a successful captive-breeding program.
    — Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Giant ancestors of elephants, zebra and baboon-like apes disappeared, to be replaced by more modern-looking grazers such as antelope and oryx.
    — NBC News, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Previous iterations of this procedure relied on anesthesia to keep the oryx manageably calm.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • This includes wild horses, whitetail and axis deer, blackbuck antelope, African oryx, armadillo roadrunners, and more.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Along your journey, encounter elephants, hyenas, giraffes, and oryx on safari; go sea kayaking in Walvis Bay; and climb the dunes of the Namib Desert.
    — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Przewalski’s horse and the Arabian oryx are among successful examples.
    — MarÍa Verza, ajc, 2 Jan. 2022
  • On July 5, a Grevy’s zebra was born, followed July 7 by a newborn Arabian oryx.
    — USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
  • The company breeds and sells about 50 species of exotic animals, including dama gazelles, Grévy’s zebra and scimitar oryx.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Still, Reed says there’s an effort to reintroduce the dama gazelle to Chad as part of a larger plan that also involves the oryx and addax, also part of the antelope family.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Eventually, Pukazhenthi aims to come up with a standard oryx insemination procedure with the highest chance of pregnancy success.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The Arabian oryx, the California condor, and the Przewalski’s horse have already been reintroduced to the wild, and the Guam rail is on its way.
    — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • As the breeding program expanded, in the early 1980s Arabian oryx were reintroduced into the deserts of central Oman.
    — Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • From inside my tent — a vintage-safari fantasia with a four-poster bed, a claw-foot tub, and pith helmets — the desert enfolded me in a vast, silent emptiness, with herds of oryx wandering the land and velvety pastels washing the sky at sunset.
    — Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The lionesses started targeting coastal prey in 2015, when a drought decimated the park’s mountain zebras, springboks, oryxes, and ostriches.
    — Ryan Truscott, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Arabian oryx, a desert antelope in South Yemen, was nearly decimated by hunters until a breeding program to capture the last remaining wild oryx was established.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
  • This hotel is set against rolling sand dunes and roaming oryx, offering guests an escape from the hustle and bustle of the city with 42 individual suites all with their own private pools overlooking unobstructed views of the pristine desert.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Zoo officials often talk about the Arabian oryx, which was once extinct in the wild and now has a wild population of a thousand, thanks to reintroduction programs, using captive animals, that began in the nineteen-eighties.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • The Arabian oryx — a visually-striking antelope with distinct, ringed horns and the national animal of Qatar — had been hunted almost to extinction by the 1970s.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • An airline’s livery is the core of its brand identity, with colors and icons that define a carrier’s image for years, or even decades – such as Qantas’s kangaroo, Lufthansa’s crane, or the oryx that graces the tails of Qatar Airways’ jets.
    — Eric Rosen, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021

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