How to Use herbivore in a Sentence

herbivore

noun

• And of course the Warlock is going to be the herbivore of the group.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• The fact that it’s getting eaten isn’t the fault of the herbivores.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• These herbivores were the largest of all dinosaurs and could grow up to about 100 feet long.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
• At the base are six types of plants whose seeds nourished herbivores.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
• If girls are sugar and spice, does that equate them to herbivores, to the boy-snips-and-snails of omnivores?
  — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
• All told, these were some of the most successful herbivores on the planet, Sereno says.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• Those factors alone helped kill off plants, then the herbivores, and then the carnivores that fed on them.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• To keep the herbivore munching to a minimum, a 7-foot high deer fence will surround the space.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2021
• When large herbivores got trapped in the goo, carnivores would follow them in and get stuck as well.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
• It is derived from plants and is emitted when herbivores move in to attacks and eat them.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
• The triceratops, which grew to about 6 feet tall, was a herbivore that likely fed on sycamore leaves and flowery plants, Bastien said.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
• When Allosaurus eats Allosaurus Many of the bones with bite marks come from Apatosaurus, a long-necked herbivore.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2020
• One indication the footprint came from an herbivore like Prosauropod was the shape of the feet, Romilio said.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
• But only in so much as both were long-necked herbivores grazers.
  — Maggie Hyde, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
• Some poor herbivore got stuck in mud, died, and its rotten stink drew scores of Allosaurus here, which became trapped in turn.
  — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 21 June 2017
• This means any large herbivores that did survive the impact are beginning to starve to death.
  — Fox News, 9 Oct. 2019
• Much like other large dinosaurs, the Diplodocus achieved its extreme size as an herbivore.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• Fostoria was an herbivore that stood on its hind legs and belonged to the same group of dinosaurs as iguanodons.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2019
• And that seemed a little weird, given that these animals were thought to be strict herbivores.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
• The grandest migration on Earth isn’t the journey of some herbivore in Africa or a bird in the sky, but the vertical movement of whole ecosystems in the open ocean.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 June 2021
• Hadrosaurids were the most common types of herbivores towards the end of Mesozoic Era and all had similar looking snouts.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2019
• Mostly nocturnal, tapirs are herbivores who eat up to 75 pounds of leaves, plants and fruit daily.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• In most cases, those abundant food sources are large herbivores.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 23 Aug. 2023
• The huge herbivore roamed what’s now the western United States between about 38 million and 56 million years ago.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• While Kong was more or less dinosaur size in his film debut, even that much smaller ape could’ve beaten a big herbivore.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
• Scientists used to think this armor helped the huge herbivores avoid cross-species breeding.
  — Katherine Hignett, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
• The scientists believe that the cooling of the climate and the loss of certain herbivore species contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 July 2021
• Today, most researchers believe the bird was a herbivore, munching mostly on tough-skinned fruits and seed pods.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2018
• Wild herbivores also help reduce the spread of wildfires in other ways.
  — Curtis Abraham, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
• While griffins in art are toothless or have the jaws of carnivores, Protoceratops was an herbivore with a dense pack of cheek teeth behind its beak.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024