How to Use mammal in a Sentence

mammal

noun

• Human beings, dogs, and cats are all mammals.
• The slowest mammal in the world is the three-toed sloth.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Pangolins are believed to be the most trafficked mammal in the world, per the WWF.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
• 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 massive mammal then struck the man with its head, lifting both man and child into the air.
  — Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
• 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
• The ocean mammal was spotted in the same area again on Friday morning.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
• 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
• In others, most notably mammals and large sharks, the egg resided for longer and longer inside the body to stay warm.
  — Jules Howard, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Their strong, synthetic strands can trap birds, bats, small mammals, bees, and butterflies.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
• The analyses revealed these feet would have been strong enough for these birds to pick up small mammals and potentially baby dinosaurs.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024