How to Use polar bear in a Sentence

polar bear

noun
  • It was found for the first time last fall in a polar bear.
    Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
  • In 1990, a polar bear killed a man in the North Slope village of Point Lay.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The three polar bears have one block each, waiting for them on the ground.
    Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • The bird weighed as much as an adult male polar bear and was more than 11 feet tall.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2019
  • The boy was on the ground in a state of shock, as the polar bear hovered over him, about to attack.
    Larry David, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • In ten years, all the snow leopards and polar bears might be gone.
    Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • There were no dogs or cats, but there were polar bears and seals.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The crack of a rifle, the grunt of a polar bear, the spout of an orca, the bone-on-bone clash of narwhal tusks.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In 1990, a polar bear killed a man farther north of Wales in the village of Point Lay.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Why not just stop off at the North Pole on your way and drown a polar bear yourself?
    Sarah Todd, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Known as the polar bear capital of the world, Churchill draws wildlife lovers from far and wide.
    Julia Eskins, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The polar bear was just a faraway speck in a frozen white expanse.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Watching the polar bears swim at the zoo during hard times soothed him.
    John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
  • His life was marked not by school grades but by first fox trapped, first polar bear shot.
    Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Back on the coast, Bud shot a polar bear, fulfilling one of his goals.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Some hope to glimpse a polar bear before the species goes extinct.
    Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • One story last week — a polar bear killing a duck at the zoo — brought up the question, what is news?
    Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • The Ouwehand Zoo welcomed a set of twin polar bear cubs on March 19.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2020
  • Now they have been found across the planet—even in the blood of arctic foxes and polar bears.
    Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The polar bear chased them back into the school, prompting the school's principal to slam the door to keep it out.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For a polar bear hot spot like Churchill, the response program makes sense.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Pete Alonso gets back to polar bear physique by the All-Star Break.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • For decades, Canada has been the main hunting ground for polar bears.
    Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, 28 May 2019
  • An adorable polar bear in Greenland was seen waving to a tourist.
    Fox News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • And, lastly, the average adult polar bears tip the scales at around 1,500 pounds, which is whole lot of bear.
    Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But first: Why were those polar bears on the Island anyway?
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • He’s been dunked in the Arctic Ocean, stuck in an Everest blizzard, and stalked by a polar bear.
    Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The story of climate change has been told, in part, through pictures of polar bears.
    Michele Moses, The New Yorker, 23 June 2019
  • From the spider monkeys to the chill pool for the polar bears, Como Zoo features the creatures.
    Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 5 July 2019
  • In contrast, Raye wears all white, including a white coat, and shares the photoset with a polar bear.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024

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