How to Use giraffe in a Sentence

giraffe

noun

• At the start of the drought, the stripe was as high as a giraffe.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Like and just, like, the elephant and then the giraffe.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
• Jesse is the third giraffe to die at the zoo in one month.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• Last month, the zoo asked the public to help name the rare giraffe.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• How does a giraffe end up on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic?
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022
• Its neck is 50 feet long or about six times the length of a giraffe’s neck.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Watch the video to see a baby giraffe walking with the aid of braces.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• That’s the size of two giraffes in a year and the whole of the Eiffel Tower in a lifetime.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The Phoenix Zoo has announced the birth of a baby Masai giraffe.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2022
• In northern Kenya, a giraffe lies dead, its long limbs splayed.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• Parker is the second giraffe to die at the zoo in a little over six months.
  — Marcia Greenwood, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• People have followed the couple home to ask about the giraffe.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
• When stretched out, the snake's length was equal to the height of a giraffe, reports Insider’s Alia Shoaib.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• Ten years ago, the news that Marius the giraffe was put down by the Copenhagen Zoo went viral.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• The baby giraffe is nearly 6 feet tall and weighs 150 pounds.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2022
• On Tuesday, the zoo revealed the name of the baby giraffe that was born in late March: Kora.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• Faouzi Jaber asked as night fell on the four-star hotel with a life-sized sculpture of a giraffe in the lobby.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
• Imagine a giraffe, but with a 40-foot wingspan and a massive beak.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2021
• The giraffe gets cleaner skin as the birds snack on parasites nestled on it.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
• Woodfin joined her in feeding lettuce to Willow the giraffe.
  — al, 18 July 2022
• Wait for a second, the giraffe is furtively looking around.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Don’t let your knees cave inward like a baby giraffe on ice.
  — Andrew Coates, Men's Health, 20 Dec. 2022
• One commenter wrote that a class of second-graders read about the giraffe in school and voted for her to be named Jamella.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Kotb looked to be having a blast in an Instagram post with her daughters – and a giraffe!
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
• There’s a newborn giraffe at Zoo Miami — take the kids.
  — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• Butterflies flit across the stage as a giraffe pokes its head through its cage to be fed by a more innocent Pi.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• The collection includes an 8-foot ostrich, African lions, a zebra and the head and neck of a giraffe.
  — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Brights Zoo, located in Limestone, introduced the world to the rare giraffe last month.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2023
• While there, the group visited a zoo filled with giraffes, kangaroos and koalas.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023
• The scene even includes a giraffe, whom the students are feeding from an upper-level window of the school.
  — Ashley Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024