Example sentences for: camel

How can you use “camel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A kid looks into a cigarette-vending machine; a toy car is plastered with tobacco brand names; a Newport poster equates smoking with freshness and the outdoors; Joe Camel flaunts his sax.

  • Ride a camel.

  • Mr. Camel is never seen doing any productive work of any kind, is never portrayed wearing bourgeois clothing of even the Casual Friday variety (he usually wears a leather jacket), and is never seen in the company of middle-class camels who have to work for a living.

  • There is a theory that the curious expression (from the Bible), It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle results from a misreading of the original: the original, it is said, has a word meaning `rope,' not `camel,' which makes sense (to me).

  • Silk Road enthusiasts fly from Beijing or Xi’an to Urumqi in the far west, returning via the exotic desert oases of Turpan and Dunhuang for the Buddhist cave treasures and camel rides to sand-locked lakes.


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