How to Use bison in a Sentence

bison

noun
  • This is also the season when elk, moose, and bison get ready to birth their calves.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
  • Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
  • In the middle of it all, a herd of some 200 bison graze.
    Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The bison stuck around and his hooves were right over my head.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The last count had 40 dead bison tallied in the Delta area.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • That is, until one of the bison turned, snarled and charged her head-on.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The bison then gored her and tossed her 10 feet into the air.
    Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
  • The years of bison freely roaming the Texas landscape are long gone.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The man and child were thrown into the air but were able to sprint away from the bison, which walked away.
    Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
  • Those pieces include a cougar, a bison, a few deer, and a musk ox.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, park rangers didn’t know why the bison injured the woman.
    al, 29 June 2022
  • Bull bison, like those that gored the tourists, can grow to six feet tall and weigh as much as 2,000 pounds.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 June 2022
  • The bison is Europe's largest land mammal and weighs up to a ton.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • The wolves let go of the calf and then retreat, while the two adult bison flank the calf and usher it off to safety.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
  • The donkey heehaws for Billy at the top of its lungs, and the bison grunts back.
    Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The bison can be seen giving chase as the group hightails it out of their way.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024
  • The free-range bison for the steak tartare comes from New Frontier in Virginia.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Or that in 2016 the bison was named the national mammal of the United States.
    Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The man’s injury was the first by a Yellowstone bison this year, the park said.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • For the Gullah Geechee, the focus is on water and fish, not land and bison.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The man, who has not been identified, grabbed the child, who was in front of the charging bison.
    Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
  • On Monday, a bull bison at the park gored a 34-year-old Colorado man.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 1 July 2022
  • The family members did not leave the area and the bison continued to charge and gore the man, the park said.
    Claire Cardona, NBC News, 29 June 2022
  • Included will be a trip to the zoo to see the afternoon feeding of the bison, elk and deer.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The two people turned away from the animals before one of the bison charged at and gored the woman.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2023
  • The park is now working on a long-term plan for managing the bison.
    Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • But in the 1800s, settlers and white traders and trappers killed millions of bison.
    Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021
  • After the bison cleared the roadway, the Braatens turned their vehicle around and found a spot to park.
    CBS News, 12 June 2024
  • White bison born in Wyoming last spring The bison isn’t the first making headlines as of late.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
  • The bison roam the plains, so take caution when driving, and do not approach them.
    Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2022

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