camel - use in sentences
Converse of object
- swallow: To get them to swallow the camel of abolishing the pound, there is not a spoonful of sugar in sight.
- break: The straw that broke the camel 's back was a caravan weekend at the end of October.
- ride: Once you've ridden a camel to school, you tend to have an open mind about how things work.
- see: She claimed to have seen a young camel arrive at the zoo in a circus trailer.
- leave: Today, there are about 255,000 camels left throughout the country.
Preposition: through
- eye: No doubt they're now experimenting with pushing camels through eyes of needles.
Adjective modifier
- Bactrian: The other new addition to the Zoo is a two-week old baby Bactrian camel, Becky.
- female: A new baby camel was born to one of our female camels in mid May.
- young: She claimed to have seen a young camel arrive at the zoo in a circus trailer.
- small: SO both of us starting with a small camel to begin with.
Modifies a noun
- herder: The third main black African group in Darfur, the Zaghawa, are like the Arabs largely camel herders.
- safari: We booked a camel safari in two weeks time.
- trek: For me the camel trek was the highlight of an amazing week.
- dung: You may find yourself gathering camel dung to put on the fire.
- riding: Also check out the zoo page for camel riding!
- caravan: Others spent months in camel caravans slowly crossing great tracts of land.
Noun used with modifier
- pantomime: The time they are aiming to beat as Camella, the pantomime camel, is 4 hours 36 mins.
Possessives
- hump: Then on to Linda's Arabic dancing - great being in the desert and dancing like a camel's hump.
- brush: What is a camel's hair brush made of?
- back: However for some of the weaker runners, " Dead Hill " proved to be straw on the camel's back.
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