How to Use sable in a Sentence

sable

noun

• The sable is in size about midway between a mule deer and an elk.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• At the same time, a big bull sable galloped out from behind a bush headed for the crest.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• They are made of mink, faux mink, sable, silk, cashmere, or synthetic fibers.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• His showroom features chinchilla, sable, fox, and Blackglama mink.
  — Janie Har, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• The kudu on the Save have magnificent horns and are as big as horses, but the sable simply don’t grow large.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• Rangy by nature, Jake was a tri-color sable with a bushy dark brown tail tipped in white, matching the natural white ring of white fur around his neck.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
• And the guts of slicing sables, minks, lynxes, all the most precious furs, shredding them into pieces, re-assembling them into crazy shapes!
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 20 June 2017
• At the time, there were fewer than 44 sable antelope and perhaps a thousand buffalo on one million acres.
  — Paul Steyn, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
• Like Eleanor’s, my sable’s horns went about 36 inches—not big as sables go, but good enough for the Save River country.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• For all his spectacular beauty, the sable is generally not the most difficult of animals to come by, once the hunter is in sable country.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• Prue especially loves his Chinese five-spice Florentines, and Paul likes his chocolate-sable biscuits.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
• Anti-poaching efforts have helped populations of sable, hippo, elephant and other species to begin recovering.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• Back then, Joseph Breitman, Mendel's great-great-grandfather, wrapped Russian aristocrats in sable.
  — Kristina Stewart Ward, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2010
• Along with giraffes, sables and other animals, more than 1,400 rhinos call Hume’s Buffalo Dream Ranch home.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2016
• In Angola, the national team is nicknamed Palancas Negras after giant sable antelopes, the country’s national symbol, famed for its long, curved horns.
  — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 19 July 2019
• The young girl entranced by fancy furs in Vienna went on to become the muse of furrier Dennis Basso, walking down the runway in a full-length sable coat and swanning around Manhattan in mink.
  — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
• On Saturday, May 30, Forrest Galante, a wildlife biologist and tracker, shared a video of a wild sable being airlifted for treatment after the adult antelope was discovered with its horn growing backward into its own head.
  — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026