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US
/ɡəˈzɛɫ/
]
[ UK /ɡəzˈɛl/ ]
[ UK /ɡəzˈɛl/ ]
NOUN
- small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
How To Use gazelle In A Sentence
- Half an hour later the Gazelle returns from task, followed shortly afterwards by the Scout.
- Two Gazelles will go out together and find vantage points from which to observe notional enemy positions.
- These species, all of which are under threat due to illegal harvesting, included Grants gazelle, Thomsons gazelle, dik-dik, eland, impala, waterbuck, warthog, plains zebra, Cape buffalo and Masai giraffe.
- Therewith up sprang the gardener lad and mounting one of the young men's mules, was absent awhile, after which he returned with a Cairene girl, as she were a sheep's tail, fat and delicate, or an ingot of pure silvern ore or a dinar on a porcelain plate or a gazelle in the wold forlore. Arabian nights. English
- Then the gazelle butted my face with pointed horns.
- Among the most abundant species found here are the white-eared kob (Kobus kob), the tiang (Damaliscus lunatus tiang) and the Mongalla gazelle (Gazella thomsonii albontata). Saharan flooded grasslands
- I had one reader who told me he was reading it outside one day when a ned came up to him -- "ned" being Scots for ... um ... think as disenfranchised as you can get -- the juvenile delinquents from our equivalent of the projects, shell-suited gangs into Buckfast and hard drugs, petty theft and hassling strangers, the type of person that is to your average SF/Fantasy reader as a hyena is to a gazelle. More Aesthetics
- In Act 1, Puck dies and this spearcarrier is elevated to a player, partly because his role in that death locks him into an eternal dance (as lover, killer, the lion to Puck's gazelle) and partly because Metatron uses him as a pawn in the game between himself and Phreedom kicked off by that death. Notes From The Geek Show
- The grasslands in the park consist of chinkara (the Indian gazelle), nilgai (the blue bull), chausingha (the four-horned antelope) and wild boar.
- They are typically graceful, having long legs and horns, and include the eland, wildebeest, gazelle, springbok, hartebeest, impala, etc.