Sample Sentences for
veld
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    The hikers trekked through the dense veld, their eyes peeled for lions and elephants.
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    But this — the long, hot African veldt-the awful death in the jaws of a lion.  (source)
    veldt = open grassland
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    From these days I date my love of the veld, of open spaces, the simple beauties of nature, the clean line of the horizon.  (source)
    veld = uncultivated grassland -- typically in the region of southern Africa
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    The veld fires had been burning for weeks, all round, and she could taste the smoke on her tongue.  (source)
    veld = uncultivated grassland -- typically in the region of southern Africa
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    You turned on the TV in the nurses' lounge and saw giraffe heads bobbing on the veldt.  (source)
    unconventional spelling: Veldt is a less-common spelling of veld.
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    Travel posters plastered the smoke-dark walls, like so many picture windows overlooking Swiss lakes and Japanese mountains and African velds, and...  (source)
    velds = uncultivated grasslands (typically in southern Africa)
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    THE ENGINE STEAMS and whistles over the veld of the Transvaal.†  (source)
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    But you mustn't cry for that bird, Paulie, because after awhile it forgot about how the veldt smelled at noonday, and the sounds of the wildebeests at the waterhole, and the high acidic smell of the ieka-ieka trees in the great clearing north of the Big Road.  (source)
    veldt = open grassland (more commonly spelled veld)
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    From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.  (source)
    veld = uncultivated grassland -- typically in the region of southern Africa
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    The old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home—especially home in April.†  (source)
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    He took to walking ten miles over the veld with his gun after his day's work to exhaust himself.  (source)
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    It was prowling the veldt.†  (source)
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    Into it they had put the flowers of the veld, such as grew in the bareness of the valley.†  (source)
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