noun
camel
CEFR B1
cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
In a sentence
Six example sentences with camel, each labelled with its topic.
We rode a camel out to the dunes at dusk, swaying with each long stride across the sand.
Travel
Caravans crossing the Sahara moved salt north by camel, a journey of two months between wells.
History
The Persian miniature shows a loaded camel kneeling beside a tent, its hump painted in three careful shades of ochre.
Art
A camel's hump stores fat rather than water, and the animal draws on it during long stretches without grazing.
Science
Feral camels roam the Australian outback in the hundreds of thousands, trampling waterholes that native species depend on.
Environment
Kipling's tale explains how the camel got his hump as a punishment for saying nothing but Humph all week.
Literature
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