How to Use primate in a Sentence

primate

noun

• Many fans took to the comments section to mourn the loss of the primate.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2021
• The primate died on Wednesday at the age of 36 due to a cardiac event.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• In fact, pig hearts have been used to keep primates alive.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 May 2019
• The primate was born June 27, marking the first successful birth of the species at the zoo in 15 years.
  — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
• Kong unfreezes himself, and proves once again to be the fiercest primate around.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
• This is the 2001 habitat of the white fronted brown lemur, a primate that eats fruit and flowers.
  — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• But the first primate-to-human heart transplant took place in 1964.
  — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 27 Jan. 2022
• The discovery is the first time these traits have been observed in a non-primate species.
  — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2020
• The branch of the tree which led to bears, dogs, and seals emerged tens of millions of years ago; primates branched off the tree many millions of years after that.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• High up in the trees, these primates face threats from birds of prey, like the formidable harpy eagle, and snakes.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• Then the teenagers killed a couple of squirrels, and the headman spotted a bush baby—a small, cute, large-eye primate—in the top of a tree.
  — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• The first tooth and the small bone could have come from such a primate, but too little had yet been uncovered for the researchers to be sure.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024
• In doing so, the monkeys became the first of their genus and the fourth of all nonhuman primates to enter the Stone Age, so to speak.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
• After the footwear landed in the primates' enclosure, Dong Dong approached the shoe and picked it up.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
• The discovery marks the fourth-observed group of non-human primates that have used stones for tools.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• That is, until a fateful balloon pop set the primate off on a rampage.
  — Vulture, 24 July 2022
• This allows the primates to move quickly through the forest canopy or snatch flying insects out of the air.
  — National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
• Expect small steps and giant leaps from this three-week-old primate.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• And the only nonhuman animals so far to pass the kind of test bees did are primates and one bird.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• The findings could lead to new insights into the evolution of self-care and medicine in primates.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 3 May 2024
• The zoo said the primate, born to parents Hendricks and Hemsworth, is the second blue-eyed black lemur born at the facility.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
• Enter the langur – or at least, cardboard cutouts of langurs – and men trained to sound like the bigger primates.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• For instance, elephants score much lower than primates do on a test known as the A-not-B challenge.
  — Justin Mott, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2020
• The baby primate was born to mother Charlie at the zoo on Nov. 17, according to the release.
  — Marcy De Luna, Chron, 17 Dec. 2020
• Nope, the smartest animals on the planet after primates could be…crows.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2019
• Now, a new group of primates have flourished in a jungle-like world where nature has taken over.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• But Touhara and his team had good reason to go looking for a potential primate pheromone in lemurs.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2020
• Of all mammals exposed to droughts and tropical cyclones, primates have faced the bulk of them.
  — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 17 June 2019
• Once the primate's blood test came back clear of any contagious illnesses, the plan to release Vivy went into action.
  — Kelli Bender, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
• Most theories tie the emergence of nails over claws to primates’ particular climbing lifestyle.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024