Examples of springbok in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The chances of finding a springbok in the National Museum were about as strong as finding a beatnik on a bog road between Balleybofey and Lifford. — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021 So a team of scientists from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have been playing around with a small quadrupedal robot called SpaceBok, designed to mimic an antelope known as a springbok. — Matt Simon, Wired, 14 June 2021 True to its name, a real-life springbok bounces around the deserts of Africa, perhaps to confuse predators. — Matt Simon, Wired, 14 June 2021 The point feet have a small surface area, kind of like the hoof of an actual springbok. — Matt Simon, Wired, 14 June 2021 Three bongos, three giraffes, three red river hogs and a springbok housed in the barn were thought to be dead. — Mike Rose, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019 Three bongos, three giraffes, three red river hogs and a springbok were thought to be dead, fire officials said. — SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019 Holly Hunt, the owner of African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, in Ottawa County along Lake Erie, said three bongos, three giraffes, three red river hogs and a springbok were killed in the fire in a barn used for overnight care and security. — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2019 An official with the Danbury Township Police told CNN that three giraffes, three red river hogs, three bongos and a springbok had all been in the barn at the time of the fire. — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 29 Nov. 2019

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