Reindeer

//ˈɹeɪndɪə//

"Reindeer" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I hope to see reindeer on my trip to Sweden.

I look like a reindeer.

Who owns these reindeer?

Tom fell off the truck while he was feeding the reindeer.

"Do you know where Lapland is?" she asked the reindeer.

When they arrived at the bush with red berries, there stood the reindeer waiting for them, and he had brought another young reindeer with him.

Both the reindeer ran by their side, and followed them as far as the boundaries of the country, where the first green leaves were budding.

Tom moved to Finland and became a reindeer herder.

More than 300 reindeer were killed by a lightning strike in Norway.

Santa Claus' sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer.

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Santa Claus' sleigh is supposedly pulled by nine reindeer

Here is a prodigious number of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.

The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.

Herds of wandering reindeer are frequently seen, and may even hold up the train while they cross the unfenced line to reach their feeding grounds.

Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

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