Sentence examples for Chobe from high-quality English sources.

• Chobe National Park, national preserve, northern Botswana.

• Insistent barkers touted trinkets once we’d crossed the Chobe where the borders of the two nations meet those of Zimbabwe and Namibia.

• They recently moved all their rhinos from Chobe (on the boarder with Zambia, separated by a river) to a more secure national park where the army could defend them better.

• About 1835 the Kololo settled on the Chobe River, extending their power to the upper Zambezi, until their final defeat there by their Lozi subjects in 1864.

• Our next stop, Chobe Chilwero camp, is a collection of almost Spanish-style villas overlooking the Chobe river that separates Botswana from Namibia.

• We remained riveted for so long we ended up dodging past elephants in must and racing against vultures in order to make the 6.30pm deadline to leave Chobe National Park.

• The border along the main channel of the Chobe River up to the Zambezi was disputed with Namibia until a 1999 ruling by the International Court of Justice favoured Botswana.

• In 1885 the British proclaimed a protectorate over their Tswana allies and the Kalahari as far north as the Ngwato; the protectorate was extended to the Tawana and the Chobe River in 1890.

Use Chobe in a sentence.

• Botswana extends from the Chobe River (which drains through the Zambezi to the Indian Ocean) in the north to the Molopo River (part of the Orange River system, which flows into the Atlantic) in the south.

• The confluence of the rivers is about 6 miles (10 km) below an exposure of basalt that the Zambezi clears at the Mambova Rapids and the Kwando (known in this region as the Chobe, or the Linyanti) clears at the Kasane Rapids.

• The two great exceptions to this rule are vigorous channels fed by the rains of central Africa—the Okavango River above its delta and the Chobe River flowing through its marshes along the northern border to join the Zambezi above the Victoria Falls.

• Yellow Zebra Safaris offers three nights at Sanctuary Stanley’s Camp in the Okavango Delta, two nights at Sanctuary Chobe Chilwero on the edge of Chobe National Park and three nights at Sanctuary Sussi & Chuma in Zambia from £3,995 per person.

• Then, to find ourselves, two days later, parked axle-deep in the Chobe river while a young male lion and three females basked three metres away on the bank, and then a further day later to walk within 10 metres of the rhinos, made our first safari, in my wife’s words, “the trip of a lifetime”.

• Sussi and Chuma lodge was the most opulent accommodation we stayed in: a collection of circular tree houses, each with its own sun deck and indoor free-standing bath, overlooking the river – in surging flood, a contrast to Botswana’s dry delta and low Chobe – and linked by walkways beneath which hippos would waddle and grunt at night.

• The hope is that—with the removal of barriers along the elephants’ ancestral migration routes, which stretched from eastern Angola into western Zimbabwe—the population, which is concentrated in Botswana’s Chobe National Park, will disperse into Zambia’s Kafue National Park and Angola’s Luiana National Park, where the elephant population is far smaller.

• The physical geography of the region is an extremely flat plain, about 3,100 feet (950 m) in elevation lying on the swampy northern margin of the Kalahari, mostly between the Zambezi River on the northeast (beyond which is Zambia) and the Kwando–Linyandi– (Mashi–Linyanti–) Chobe river system on the south and southwest (beyond which, for the most part, is Botswana).