How to Use antler in a Sentence

antler

noun
  • His antlers had fine length, but the points were short and the head as a whole was light.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • Instead, each side of the antler forks near the base, then forks again in the rear and front.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Fall is when the male deer – the bucks – will rub their antlers on the smaller trees.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The decor of their home would have to be described as modern antler.
    Charity Robey, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Deer grow antlers anew each spring, often at the rate of an inch per day.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Back in the woods, Lottie has her first vision since the crash: a deer with bloody antlers.
    Madison Feller, ELLE, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The impact of a big leap may help rattle an antler loose.
    Jason Tome, Outdoor Life, 17 Feb. 2021
  • In the fall, when the caribou’s antlers and meat were in their prime, hunters moved to the ridge to prepare for winter.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • For one, does are contributing half the antler DNA to buck fawns.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Stoller used a shotgun with slugs to shoot off most of the smaller bull’s left antler.
    Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
  • July's Buck Moon refers to antler changes on male deer (bucks).
    Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2022
  • The buck with the biggest antlers and its hunter will also be honored.
    Bryan Hendricks, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Elk and moose antlers hung over the cabin’s timber-frame porch.
    Cassidy Randall, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023
  • An antlered deer has at least one antler three inches or longer in length.
    Joe Harrington, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
  • On the wall above his stairs are the heads and antlers of Britain’s six deer species, which Fiennes has shot and eaten.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
  • And that’s not all the information to be gleaned from shed antlers.
    Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The horns are made of sheaths of keratin, like true horns, but shed every year like a true antler.
    Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Her look came adorned with red antlers and a person in a red bodysuit to hold her veil.
    Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The décor of their home would have to be described as modern antler.
    New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Another man sat on the ground wearing a Trump flag as a cape and a hat with antlers.
    Deepti Hajela and Bobby Caina Calvan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This phase is the perfect time to get your hands on a grunt tube, a bleat can, and rattling antlers—and be ready to use them.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Not his antlers, but his belly and bristling neck, and the stout shoulders between.
    Natalie Krebs, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2020
  • In early summer, bucks get their antlers, so the first July full moon is called the Buck Moon.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 June 2023
  • Reichert took the shot when the buck turned broadside and after a short wait, the hunter was gripping the antlers of a true giant.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The antler growth is initiated by a burst of testosterone which could come from the doe’s adrenal glands.
    Tony Kalna Jr., Outdoor Life, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The footage begins showing two big moose clashing antlers on a small dirt road.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Who is the chainmail-wearing and antler-crowned person ruling over the girls’ feast?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Inside were stuffed reindeer toys and a pair of real antler tines.
    Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The bull bolts into the woods, fragments of rope still tangled between its antlers.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Knapping stone points takes skill, but those filed from bone or antler work nearly as well.
    Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023

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