How to Use mammal in a Sentence

mammal

noun

• Human beings, dogs, and cats are all mammals.
• This was the first time the virus made the jump from a mammal to a human.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 July 2024
• Asian elephants like Rani are among the largest land mammals in the world.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• This may be the first Arctic wolf to be cloned, but it’s not the first mammal.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
• The waterfront has emerged as a hot spot for the mammals in 1989.
  — Emma Bowman, NPR, 4 May 2024
• The mammals are likely to be the first thing most people notice about the menu.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• The parasites live in some species of birds and mammals.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
  — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• There’s a new chunky mammal in the spotlight in Alaska this week.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2022
• When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• There isn't a mammal on the planet that could survive that.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• The duck-billed, egg-laying mammals haven’t been recorded within the park’s bounds since the 1970s.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• Small mammals, like mice, rabbits, and voles, make up the bulk of their diet.
  — Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• Or that in 2016 the bison was named the national mammal of the United States.
  — Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
• My goose bumps in the desert were a social mammal’s request for warmth via touch.
  — James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
• But Prairie Dog isn’t the only collared mammal that has faced a python.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
• He is also banned from owning any mammals for the rest of his life.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
• The platypus -- along with the echidna -- are the only mammals in the world that that lay eggs, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, are boys insects and girls mammals?
  — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
• Fish such as anchovies feed on the algae, and marine mammals feed on the anchovies.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2023
• But the true pulse of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the hoofbeat of elk, the park’s most abundant large mammal.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• There’s the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (goodbye T-rex, hello mammals!) and the one that formed Earth’s Moon.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
• Just then, the massive marine mammal reared out of the water and into the other boat.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
• Caspian seals are the only marine mammal in the Caspian Sea and exist nowhere else in the world.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• The kangaroo rat is the only mammal in the Mountains and Desert habitat.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 June 2024
• That modest size wasn’t unusual for mammals at the time.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 11 May 2023
• The new study also revealed why the noise that humans make in the ocean is so disruptive and harmful for the large mammals.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
• The researchers singled them out and gave them anandamide, a cannabinoid found in worms as well as mammals.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2023
• Small rodents, monkeys, and mammals can pass the virus on to humans but outbreaks typically take off when humans infect each other.
  — Jess Craig, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
• Each new garden is the opening up of a microhabitat for a rich tapestry of organisms — insects and birds, small mammals, reptiles, a host of microbes and fungi.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 29 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024