Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: camels
IPA transcription: [k'æməlz]
Pronunciations of camels
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Usage examples
  • However, as was my duty, I took with me ten camels, laden with rich presents for the Sultan.
  • Elephants and camels, llamas and horses, all richly caparisoned in Eastern silks, passed along with their riders.
  • Do you take for yourself two horses, two camels, and two elephants, with all their trappings, and present the rest to her.'
  • They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice-pails.
  • But if we want to swallow such camels, and, instead, strain at gnats, let the beams stand and judge the motes, we also might indeed be satisfied with the Council.
  • With this carefully wrapped up in his cotton waistband he went to the house of a rich friend, who was a travelling merchant, and used to wander about with his camels and merchandise through many countries.
  • However, when he fought with Obodas, king of the Arabians, who had laid an ambush for him near Golan, and a plot against him, he lost his entire army, which was crowded together in a deep valley, and broken to pieces by the multitude of camels.
  • So he turned to the apes and asked them, 'What are these Ghuls?' and they answered, 'Know, O King, that these Ghuls are our mortal foes and we come hither to do battle with them.' Janshah marvelled to see them riding horses, and was startled at the vastness of their bulk and the strangeness of their semblance; for some of them had heads like bulls and others like camels.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cat, License CC BY-SA 4.0