How to Use reindeer in a Sentence

reindeer

noun
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  • The food is still there, but the reindeer can’t reach it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The food is still there, but the reindeer can't reach it.
    — David Keyton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Moose are wild in the area, but the reindeer all have owners.
    — Erinne Magee, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2021
  • All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names.
    — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2019
  • For the kids, live reindeer will be at the center all day.
    — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • There was a miniature sleigh in the snow, and eight tiny reindeer.
    — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2021
  • But, but, but — there wasn’t four feet of snow in my reindeer pen.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Here, just a reindeer skip and a hop from the North Pole, the students were abuzz with good cheer.
    — Mark Thiessen, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The segment wasn’t all snowflakes and reindeer, though.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 21 Nov. 2019
  • But without the land, there will be no reindeer to graze.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Add magic with details about life at the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, the elves, and the reindeer.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In the spare wilderness of the North Pole, Prancer finds young love with Eve, a wild reindeer from the forest.
    — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The base for the beds is ice covered with a reindeer skin topped with a sleeping bag.
    — Tom Sietsema, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Something seems to be going wrong with the reindeer, the toy-makers, and the nice list!
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 4 Dec. 2020
  • His reindeer, thousands of them, were nowhere to be seen.
    — Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • The reindeer, Atkinson says, are tame, but not trained.
    — Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2021
  • And there was evidence of reindeer Left on the front lawn.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The famous reindeer returned to her farm in Huntsville to live out her life.
    — Kelly Kazek | [email protected], al, 12 Dec. 2019
  • No, not reindeer, but a group of sheep crossing the valley in line with our camp.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Santa and his reindeer are ready to make their journey around the world tonight.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The last of the straggling reindeer, a lone, lame female, disappeared in the 1980s.
    — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
  • In fact, the reindeer herders turn out to be quite courtly to the fair-haired Norwegian.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The reindeer people cast spells and have their own way of making girls fall in love with them. . . .
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Who doesn’t want to see a bunch of adorable baby reindeer learning to walk?
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The addition looked like a cross between a reindeer and a cow with a green nose.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Instead, the Sami sing folk songs around a roaring fire and race reindeer in the snow.
    — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024
  • Inside were stuffed reindeer toys and a pair of real antler tines.
    — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There will also be live reindeer and pony rides, as well as a choir and a raffle.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Santa Claus and his reindeer will ride along on an open-air flat car.
    — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Luckily, his magical sleigh, reindeer and precocious elves know how to get him through the night — and the rest of the year.
    — Sydni Ellis, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024

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