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Example sentences for "nilgai"

Lexicographically close words:
nihilo; nihilominus; niht; nil; nila; nill; nilly; nilmontant; nima; nimbi
  1. For example, the castrated Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) acquires horns, but not the characteristic male colour.

  2. The small horns and bluish-grey colour of the adult bulls serve to distinguish the Indian nilgai (q.

  3. If it had been a Sambhur or a Nilgai we should have had no supper, for the grass whispered under me as I shook it with my trembling.

  4. He knew the nilgai had done it, and showed the brothers how to track them by the few marks which they had by accident made on the ground.

  5. The uncle told him not to eat of the field of Lingo or all the nilgai would be killed.

  6. There were sixteen score of nilgai or blue-bull.

  7. They did so, and surrounded the nilgai and killed them all with their bows and arrows except the old uncle, from whom Lingo's arrow rebounded harmlessly on account of his innocence, and one young doe.

  8. From these two the nilgai race was preserved.

  9. But the young bull did not heed, and took off all the nilgai to eat the rice.

  10. In some parts of India nilgai are speared in this way.

  11. The story runs, that one day one of these men, accompanied by his wife, came to a glade in the jungle where some nilgai were feeding.

  12. Jadar seemed annoyed at the delay as the waiting chitahs were re-harnessed and the last carcasses of blue nilgai were loaded onto the ox-drawn wagons for return to the camp.

  13. She seemed to cover the remaining twenty yards in less than a second, and before the nilgai realized she was there, she had already pawed down a bleating straggler.

  14. The striped ears of the other nilgai shot erect at the sound, and the herd panicked, sweeping blindly away from her--and directly toward the cover where the male crouched.


  15. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nilgai" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat