Sentence examples for In the veld from inspiring English sources

Her body was found in the veld with condoms, bottles and sticks around it; the whole community was shocked.

Mass slaughter, trophy hunting, and the encroachments of farmers and pastoralists have thinned out every major species of mammal and reptile and several species of birds in the veld.

(Back Bay/Little, Brown, $13.99. ) Set at a remote Catholic school in Namibia and based on Orner's own year teaching in the veld, this poetic first novel revolves around the short-lived tryst between Larry Kaplanski, an American volunteer, and the title character, a beautiful freedom fighter turned teacher.

Maintenance of daily CH4 production within a defined range depends on the diet consumed by the host animal when grazing in the veld.

Newspaper clippings in Zimbabwe dramatize cases where cattle ranchers shot large numbers of wildebeest and zebra and (having no legal commercial use) left them to 'rot in the veld'.

All three ranches are deep in the veld, at least 20 km from any settlements.

Some of the best examples come from South Africa, where several pines and woody legumes (particularly Acacias) have invaded the fynbos biome in the south and the veld biome in the Transvaal (Richardson 1998).

Such places include the vegetated areas of Australia and Southeast Asia, the veld in southern Africa, the fynbos in the Western Cape of South Africa, the forested areas of the United States and Canada, and the Mediterranean Basin.

I'm looking over the bicycle's handlebars at the veld unfurling in front of me - the baobab trees in bloom, the hawks circling, a miniskyline of anthills rising in the distance, thinking that 15 miles per hour is about the perfect pace to soak this all up.

We do not prepare them to do things you would see in the bush veld.

The ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex has been depicted as the top dog of the Cretaceous, ruthlessly stalking herds of duck-billed dinosaurs and claiming the role of apex predator, much as the lion reigns supreme in the African veld.