How to Use black bear in a Sentence

black bear

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• The head and neck alone can weigh 600 pounds—more than a large black bear.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2020
• Show attendees could pay for a chance to get in the cage with a live black bear.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2020
• The same seller also had a six-month-old black bear at the going rate of $500.
  — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2020
• Moose, ducks, and geese are scattered throughout coastal marshes, and brown and black bears are…everywhere.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• The women quickly ran upstairs and hid in a bedroom, while the bold black bear wandered around the cabin.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 May 2020
• Prized deer antlers, a black bear skin, and a stuffed bobcat adorn its conference room, which used to be the family kitchen.
  — Kevin Scott, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
• Using spotlights to blind and shoot hibernating black bear mothers and their cubs.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2020
• On April 10, the park tweeted a video of a black bear grazing on grass near Yosemite Village.
  — Fox News, 15 Apr. 2020
• Plus, the John Muir Trail begins in the campground, and your chances of spotting a black bear are pretty high.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2020
• Food can also send the wrong message to other major predators, specifically black bears.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Feb. 2020
• The team of men were seen moving the massive black bear, which appears to have brown fur, on a large green tarp through a residential yard onto the bed of a pickup truck.
  — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2020
• The black bear's death took place on the roadway near the city of Townsend, a city in Blount County about 30 miles southeast of Knoxville.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• Even if additional groundwater pumping doesn’t deplete the aquifer, the area is a vital migratory pathway for wide-ranging species like jaguars, mountain lions, wolves and black bears.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 3 Feb. 2020
• When the charmingly plump black bear with rosy red cheeks won the event, the country was still reeling from the catastrophic tsunami and nuclear disaster that had struck northern Japan months earlier.
  — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2020
• Since then, the young black bear has been in the refuge's care.
  — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
• Moose, deer, elk, and, yes, brown and black bears roam the same trail.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2024
• The panoramic view and the black bear are sure sightings.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 2 June 2022
• On a trip in 2018, our food pack was ripped to shreds by a black bear.
  — Times Insider Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• As for the black bear in the video above, though—what’s your best guess on its weight?
  — Gerry Bethge, Field & Stream, 17 Feb. 2021
• In the northeast, floods can wake black bears from their dens.
  — WIRED, 25 July 2023
• The dog then ran back out of the woods with a black bear chasing after it.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 July 2023
• Think of this black bear as a late teenager in bear years.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Signs along the highway warn of the predator that roams the forest: the Asian black bear.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
• Where the bear was spotted The bear appears to be a young male black bear.
  — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 15 June 2024
• There have been black bear sightings in all 21 of the state's counties.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• The region is filled with black bears, whales, and other wildlife species.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
• Not just black bear and brown bear, but squirrel, bird.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
• In the video, a small black bear is seen running along the cement wall in the Redmond back yard.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
• This black bear was photographed in the foothills of the Huachuca Mountains.
  — AZCentral.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• The footage, which was posted on Facebook, shows a black bear sniffing around a garage at night.
  — Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025