How to Use loris in a Sentence

loris

noun

• Nobody knew what a loris was before the YouTube video, but now everybody knows them.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2016
• Nobody knew what a loris was before the YouTube video, but now everybody knows them.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2016
• Stay as gentle and circumspect as this slow loris is while eating a rice ball.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 Mar. 2020
• The slow loris, a really adorable primate in Asia, is a great example.
  — Diane Daniel, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Sloths or other small mammals like slow lorises may be poached from the wild for use in tourist attractions.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
• Stranger still is the venom system of the slow loris (genus Nycticebus), a nocturnal primate from Southeast Asia.
  — National Geographic, 7 Jan. 2020
• Hog deer, Bengal slow loris, Asian elephants and clouded leopards also lurk in its jungles.
  — Doug Clark, New York Times, 28 May 2017
• For smaller animals, though, like slow lorises, macaques, sloths and tropical birds, poaching in service of tourism does remain a threat.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
• There are a few other venomous mammals, mostly shrews, but there’s only one venomous primate: Southeast Asia’s slow loris.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
• Slow lorises secrete venom — unique among primates — so their sharp teeth are often extracted to make interaction safe.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
• Slow lorises are beguiling but venomous primates made famous by Internet videos showing them being tickled or fed rice balls.
  — National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2016
• Conservationists previously built artificial bridges to help other treebound species such as the Bornean orangutan and the Javan slow loris.
  — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 15 Oct. 2020
• Spanning nearly every continent, these animals include the tree kangaroo, Jamaican iguana and slow loris — the last a nocturnal primate native to Southeast Asia with eyes that cover half of its furry face.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 12 Sep. 2017
• There, scientists presumptively identified the primate as a loris, a slow-moving, tailless, nocturnal animal from southern India and Sri Lanka that lives in trees.
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2020
• Veterinary surgeon Karl Maritato recently removed a cancerous spleen from a pygmy slow loris.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2019
• However, the researchers behind the paper, published in the journal Toxins, didn’t actually study cats or humans to generate their hypothesis, instead focusing on a venomous primate called a slow loris.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024