Sentence examples for river horses from inspiring English sources

Nile hippos, also known as river hippos or river horses, are vegetarians and can weigh as much as 4,000 pounds.

Hippopotamus is Greek for "river horse," and the animal has been known since ancient times.

Bears do not generally communicate by sound and usually are quiet, but they do growl at times when feeding, when being challenged by another bear or by humans, and when competing for mates. is Greek for "river horse," and the animal has been known since ancient times.

The name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse".

15 1 RIVER-HORSE, by William Least Heat-Moon.

They were standing in a rushing river, buck naked, wild horses running in the background, as he knelt down on one knee and asked her to be his forever.

The word "hippopotamus" is derived from the ancient Greek, hippopotamos, from, hippos, "horse", and, potamos, "river", meaning "horse of the river".

We'll ford rivers, mislay horses, and lose our imaginary cousin to dysentery.

It's a remote, almost forgotten paradise of towering mountains, clear rivers, wild horses, wolves, bears and – if you happen to be there for the summer festival – prodigious feats of drinking.

The observation of hedgerows, rivers, shire horses, rumpled lanes and cottage gardens in his paintings is charged and visionary; but it is the vision of a scientist, not a seer.

What's not so well known is that afterward Booth fled into southern Maryland, a hotbed of Confederate sympathy, and spent 12 days on the lam in a strange and tragic odyssey that involved swamps, rivers, dead horses, country doctors, and heavy realizations that the North had won and there was no turning back.