How to Use oryx in a Sentence

oryx

noun
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  • But the Arabian oryx held on in private reserves and zoos around the world.
    — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2019
  • There were white elk and eland, impala and Arabian oryx.
    — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • But by the early 1970s, the Arabian oryx was hunted to extinction in the wild.
    — Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The same rifles hired for elk, moose, and mule deer in the U.S. are proving just as effective for kudu, oryx, and even buffalo in Africa.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2020
  • 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
  • The company has even created a wildlife sanctuary on the land, with desert gazelle, ostrich, and oryx.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • How does the desert-dwelling oryx survive a body temperature that would kill other mammals?
    — smithsonianmag.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • How does the desert-dwelling oryx survive a body temperature that would kill other mammals?
    — smithsonianmag.com, 2 May 2017
  • There are species like dama gazelles, Grévy’s zebra, addax, scimitar oryx.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Enjoy three days on safari here, looking for big cats, giraffes, oryx, rare black-faced impalas, and endemic birds like the bare-cheeked babbler.
    — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Scholars believe this antelope, or its closely related cousin, the Arabian oryx, may have been the source of the unicorn myth.
    — Mélanie Wenger, National Geographic, 7 July 2020
  • On July 5, a Grevy’s zebra was born, followed July 7 by a newborn Arabian oryx.
    — USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
  • Spread across the property were 1,000 sheep, eight Arabian oryx, four horses, two camels and one falcon — what Mr. Al Misned called his working farm — cultivated over the past decade.
    — Christina Goldbaum Erin Schaff, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Onguma’s guides treated me to numerous sightings of various antelope — kudu, steenbok and oryx, to name a few — and my favorite of them all: the tiny dik dik, standing little more than a foot high at the shoulder.
    — Eric Vohr, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Onguma’s guides treated me to numerous sightings of various antelope — kudu, steenbok, and oryx, to name a few — and my favorite of them all: the tiny dik dik, standing little more than a foot high at the shoulder.
    — Eric Vohr, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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, 6 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • This includes wild horses, whitetail and axis deer, blackbuck antelope, African oryx, armadillo roadrunners, and more.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Przewalski’s horse and the Arabian oryx are among successful examples.
    — MarÍa Verza, ajc, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Previous iterations of this procedure relied on anesthesia to keep the oryx manageably calm.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • These oryx were extinct in the wild, experts said, but have been reintroduced under a program that the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute is involved in.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 17 May 2017

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