How to Use hyena in a Sentence

hyena

noun

• Other times, the hyenas that prowl the desert get there first.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2019
• The stock market came in like a lamb and went out like a hyena in the third quarter.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• Turns out, hyenas can’t climb — which Naborr knew, of course.
  — Jacqueline Cutler, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
• The trail is a palimpsest of their giant, pancake-round tracks and the lobed pads of hyenas or toes of civets.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
• In some places, a hyena is giving birth or there’s a hole in the heavens.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• In a heartbeat, they are gone, off like a pack of wild hyenas in a deluge of din and dust.
  — Michael C. Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2017
• Julian is all smiles one minute and howling like a hyena the next.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2024
• There is wildlife beyond big cats like sloth bears and hyenas.
  — Jasreen Mayal Khanna, Robb Report, 17 May 2024
• Keegan-Michael Key is also joining the cast as one of the evil hyenas.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• The group, this a pack of hyenas on a single lioness, has brought her down.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
• Attracted by the noise, the lion returns to scare away the hyenas.
  — National Geographic, 10 Aug. 2017
• But the hyena cannot suppress her true nature for long.
  — Anwen Crawford, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Your coworker bathes in body spray—and laughs like a hyena.
  — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 14 Mar. 2024
• The hyenas approached the robot, and one cub even offered it a stick in what seemed like a gesture to play.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• One woman who has come to regard her rapist as a hyena.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• The hyenas have new names and Rafiki has a more sensible tail.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2019
• At night hyenas rampaged through the area while lions called.
  — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
• On her daily visits to the London Zoo, the girl befriends a hyena.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 19 June 2022
• Shivers sped down my spine as a hyena crept into our Jeep’s headlights in the night.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Feb. 2023
• The hyenas are acting in self-interest, playing their part in the food chain.
  — Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• That’s nearly twice as strong as a hyena and some 60 points higher than a lion.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• While his own home burned, Lang spent hours racing around in his truck, dousing spot fires near the cheetah barn and the hyena pen.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• It’s gotten to the point where even the hyenas have noticed that one of the world’s great wildlife refuges is overrun by visitors.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2024
• These cut marks were made on the phalanx — the last toe bone before the claw — of a hyena found at the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter north of Madrid.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
• Margot Robbie spills: Was that a real hyena in 'Birds of Prey'?
  — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2020
• For example, the hyenas here don’t come in mating pairs.
  — Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
• Erin DeCarli was in the audience watching her son, Alex, play the part of a hyena.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 15 June 2017
• Some animals already at the zoo, such as the striped hyena, will move into the Gorongosa area.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 1 Feb. 2017
• The show focuses on the lives of three African matriarchs: an elephant, a hyena and a striped mongoose.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2022
• After her fistula left her stinking of leaking waste, villagers took her to an exposed hut on the edge of town to be eaten by hyenas.
  — Isobel Coleman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2010

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024