On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Karoo. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Karoo meaning
- Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
- Any of the composite bushes typical of the Karoo.
Using Karoo
- The main meaning on this page is: Any vast prairie bordering a desert. | Any of the composite bushes typical of the Karoo.
- In the example corpus, karoo often appears in combinations such as: the karoo, karoo the, and karoo.
Context around Karoo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Karoo
- In this selection, "karoo" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, two, otherwise, piet and development stand out and add context to how "karoo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and if karoo is a and and little karoo otherwise fine. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "karoo" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with karoo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Like the Karoo, Piet and Heleen van Wygharden have always known drought. (12 words)
If the Karoo were a clock face, Fraserburg would be at four o'clock. (14 words)
And if Karoo is a shale windfall, Kavango is its likely extension, according to geologists. (15 words)
He noted that the drought in the Western Cape is far from over with parts of the Karoo, the West Coast and the Overberg still in danger, “but at least there is a plan in place”. (36 words)
While coastal areas of the province will celebrate these figures, the agricultural sector in the Karoo remains concerned about the lack of rainfall there, with the area still considered to be in a drought. (34 words)
Morning fog patches in the Breede Valley and Little Karoo, otherwise fine and warm to hot becoming cloudy over the extreme western parts with a chance of light rain from late evening. (32 words)
Example sentences (17)
Milan-born Nava is particularly passionate about Romagnola beef, Dorper lamb and venison sourced from the Karoo.
Gift of the Givers distributed food hampers and bottled water from the Towerkop Primary School in Ladismith as part of campaign to bring social relief to people in the Karoo.
Morning fog patches in the Breede Valley and Little Karoo, otherwise fine and warm to hot becoming cloudy over the extreme western parts with a chance of light rain from late evening.
And if Karoo is a shale windfall, Kavango is its likely extension, according to geologists.
He noted that the drought in the Western Cape is far from over with parts of the Karoo, the West Coast and the Overberg still in danger, “but at least there is a plan in place”.
If the Karoo were a clock face, Fraserburg would be at four o'clock.
Like the Karoo, Piet and Heleen van Wygharden have always known drought.
The DA and the Karoo Development Party (KOP) formed a coalition after all parties failed to obtain a majority in the 2016 local elections.
The demand for mutton that followed the discovery of diamonds in 1866 and gold 20 years later only knitted the Karoo further into the fabric of global markets.
While coastal areas of the province will celebrate these figures, the agricultural sector in the Karoo remains concerned about the lack of rainfall there, with the area still considered to be in a drought.
With only two Karoo farmhouse lodges sleeping no more than 30 people, you will feel like you have the 28,000ha reserve and its mountain surrounds all to yourself.
Characteristics Culture Trekboere crossing the Karoo The desire to wander, known as trekgees, was a notable characteristic of the Boers.
In earlier times, springbok of the Kalahari desert and Karoo would migrate in large numbers across the countryside, a practice known as trekbokken.
It inhabits open plains, grasslands and Karoo shrublands in both steep mountainous regions and lower undulating hills at altitudes varying between convert.
It is named after the glacial tills found in the Karoo region of South Africa, where evidence for this ice age was first clearly identified.
The best-known record of vertebrate changes across the Permian–Triassic boundary occurs in the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa, but statistical analyses have so far not produced clear conclusions.
They were once found in great numbers in the Karoo of Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State in South Africa.
Common combinations with karoo
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: