How to Use marten in a Sentence

marten

noun

• That would equate to over 1,000 marten in a three-month season.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
• Top prices for marten are around $70, and that is for the best — the average will come in far lower.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
• Pelts from these marten are used world-wide to make clothing for warmth and fashion.
  — Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2020
• The marten’s head dates from the same period as the painting and is in the exhibition.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• The meat-eating Humboldt marten is about the size of a kitten and is related to minks.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
• Thomas asked them to redesign the project, with an eye to protecting marten habitat.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• Growers often use rat poison to protect their crop, which kills martens, the groups said.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
• The rule bars trapping in the two national forests in the state where the only two marten populations live.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
• The fisher cat is a member of the weasel family and is most closely related to a mink or a marten.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2022
• Aristotle also compared the dog to a marten, a member of the weasel family, perhaps because of its size.
  — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• The group includes martens, weasels, badgers, honey badgers, otters, and sea otters.
  — National Geographic, 11 July 2019
• The story included a map of the range of pine martens, which showed that populations lived in the area of a controversial iron mining site in Ashland and Iron counties.
  — Lee Bergquist, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2017
• The marten, a member of the weasel family, is not endangered, but its population levels are seen as a useful proxy for forest health.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• The Canadian Rockies hold a huge number of carnivores—wolves, cougars, wolverine, lynx, coyote, marten, and smaller weasels.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 14 June 2018
• Mink are members of the Mustelidae family that also includes weasels, badgers, otters, marten and wolverines.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2020
• Solitary trappers poke trails into some remote sections in search of marten during the winter months, but with the dismal demand for furs, trappers are a disappearing breed.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
• This second critter—a stone marten, in fact—will be a part of an exhibit in Rotterdam, Netherlands, about the deadly side effects between the interaction of human engineering and the natural world.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
• Researchers also saw higher numbers of racoons, Japanese marten, a weasel-like animal, and Japanese macaque or monkeys in uninhabited or restricted zones.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2020
• Before California’s population ballooned to roughly 40 million people, fur trapping played a significant role in the extirpation of wolves and wolverines and the severe declines of sea otters, fishers, martens, beavers and other fur-bearing species.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• Interestingly, other animals occasionally visited the burrows—including an extinct relative of martens and weasels, probably looking to make a meal of the burrow’s maker.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024