Crossword-Solution: GIRAFFES
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| Acacia munders | 1 answer |
| Animals that fight by necking | 1 answer |
| Eaters of acacia leaves | 1 answer |
| High-reaching ruminants | 1 answer |
| Long-necked beasts | 1 answer |
| Okapis' cousins | 1 answer |
| Spotted ruminants | 1 answer |
| Tall quadrupeds. | 1 answer |
| Tall zoo attractions | 1 answer |
| Tallest animals | 1 answer |
| They can hold their heads high | 1 answer |
| Veld creatures | 1 answer |
| Camelopards | 2 answers |
| Large animals | 2 answers |
| Spotted animals | 4 answers |
| African animals. | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with GIRAFFES (5)
You don’t suppose I’m looking for giraffes, do you?” “I don’t see why you should expect to find either in my room,” retorted Waldo furiously.
His well-known examples to illustrate these views, such as that of successive generations of giraffes lengthening their necks by stretching them to gather high-growing foliage, and of successive generations of kangaroos lengthening and strengthening their hind legs by the necessity of keeping themselves erect while jumping, provoked laughter, but the very comicality of these illustrations aided to fasten his main conclusion in men's memories.
Yes! Even he, the prose artist of fiction, which after all is but truth often dragged out of a well and clothed in the painted robe of imagined phrases--even he has his place among kings, demagogues, priests, charlatans, dukes, giraffes, cabinet ministers, Fabians, bricklayers, apostles, ants, scientists, Kafirs, soldiers, sailors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes, and constellations of a universe whose amazing spectacle is a moral end in itself.
John Douglas, but the unwashed supper dishes did not trouble her, as she watched the lumbering elephants, the restless lions, the long-necked giraffes and the striped zebras, that came and went in the nearby circus lot.
Well, we think that a time may come when we who live on shrubs like goats may again browse on tree-tops like giraffes, for Panda is no strong king, and he has sons who hate each other, one of whom may need our spears.
Quotes with GIRAFFES (3)
After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created — and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground — for I regret that I have made them’ (Genesis 6:7). The Bible thinks it is perfectly all right to destroy all animals as punishment for the crimes of Homo sapiens, as if the existence of giraffes, pelicans and ladybirds has lost all…
When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, they adopted an upright stance. Possessing already this powerful visual system, they could see far into the distance (giraffes and elephants might stand taller, but their eyes are on the sides, giving them instead panoramic vision). This allowed them to spot dangerous predators far away on the horizon and detect their movements even in twilight. Given a few seconds or minutes, th…
Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength - like lions and tigers -""And giraffes?" interpolated Colonel Race slyly. I laughed. Everyone makes fun of that giraffe." And giraffes. They were nomadic, you see. It wasn't till they settled down in communities, and women did one kind of thing and men another, that women got weak. And of course, underneath, one is still the same - one feels the same, I mean - and that is why wo…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1955–2020).