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veldt

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for veldt.

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The Veldt is a classic short story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury, a famous and celebrated author, who also wrote the famous dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

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Dated spelling of veld.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Dated spelling of veld.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for veldt.

noun

Dated spelling of veld.

Example sentences

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The Veldt is a classic short story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury, a famous and celebrated author, who also wrote the famous dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

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In addition FF6 had the veldt system with Garr and many more character classes that were interesting.

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Good engineers today have their pick of jobs, and good female engineers are being stalked like the last antelope on the African veldt.

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Driving south of Magdalena to the Gila Wilderness you may see herds of antelope and might think you are in an African veldt.

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Some of the homophone pairs the author used seem pretty dubious to me: ant/aunt, choral/coral, air/err, awed/odd, veldt/felt.

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> David Veldt is a digital marketing consultant specializing in building online businesses and growing brands.

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(Carved symbols in a mountain hollow on the bank of an inlet irritated an eccentric person.)[1] Jink cwm, zag veldt, fob qursh pyx.

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– created by Claude Shannon) Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck (A grass-plains wryneck climbs upon a male yak-cattle hybrid that was donated under Islamic law.) Bortz waqf glyphs vex muck djin.

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Africa, oriented N-S has a huge variation in climates from the Med in the North through the Serengheti, the sahel, the savannah, tropical rainforests, the veldt, and etc.

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That means that a Masai warrior, wandering the veldt and looking for a lion to take on, his asegai trembling in his hand so he can advance to manhood and then his phone finds a base station and he might suddenly be chatting with a child from the Netherlands (they both subscribe to the same Facebook Barbie fan group)!

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My understanding is that they aren't nearly as problematic as some other non-native plants though, like veldt grass, pampas grass, English ivy, sourgrass (African wood-sorrel), ice plant, Himalayan blackberry, cotoneaster, periwinkle, etc.

Quote examples

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It was a bit of a pleasant surprise to encounter “The Veldt” again without a teachers whip at my back.

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And there's a whole slew of dystopian SF which has materialised in some form or another, from Ray Bradbury ("The Veldt"), Philip K.

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Early in high school among other things I had to read was “The Veldt”.

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Check out, for example, his 1951 short story "The Veldt" from "The Illustrated Man" collection.

Proper noun examples

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Nobody does that outside of feudal Japan or the Veldt.

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The NYT painted the CEO as being the visionary of the sphere concept, quoting that he was inpsired by a Ray Bradbury short story called The Veldt.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use veldt in a sentence?

The Veldt is a classic short story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury, a famous and celebrated author, who also wrote the famous dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

What does veldt mean?

Dated spelling of veld.

What part of speech is veldt?

veldt is commonly used as noun.