How to Use pygmy in a Sentence

pygmy

noun

• The pygmy slow lorises who live at the zoo were both born in 2010.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
• The calf, the only pygmy hippo at the zoo, will have his name go to a vote.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
• Torres thinks the whales in the video belong to the pygmy subspecies of blue whales.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• Plumptre’s pygmy chameleon can reach about 3 inches in length, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
• The ground and most the sagebrush that the pygmy rabbits rely on were charred black.
  — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 12 July 2017
• African pygmy hedgehogs fit in your hand, and their spikes aren’t painful.
  — Noelle Mateer, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
• The bird is one of four subspecies of the pygmy owl, which ranges all the way from Arizona to Argentina.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
• The smallest of the them all – the pygmy marmoset, no bigger than a hand – is also the latest to evolve.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
• This year, a 2-year-old pygmy goat named Princess Jenny crossed the finish line first, claiming the crown.
  — Bethany Ao, Philly.com, 7 May 2018
• On Christmas Eve, the Virginia Zoo announced the birth of a rare pygmy hippo.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022
• In the case of the pygmy shrew, the only scraps the researchers found after three days were inedible fur, bone and skin.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
• The San Diego Zoo announced the birth of a successful pygmy hippo last week.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2020
• The zoo’s pygmy hippos, tigers and lemurs were given their own jack-o-lanterns ahead of Halloween.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• One of the world’s rarest pigs, the Visayan is close behind the Bawean warty pig and pygmy hog, whose numbers are also in the low hundreds.
  — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2019
• Today’s Russia is a pygmy compared to the Soviet Union of the 1980s.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Mar. 2023
• Sure enough, a pygmy rattlesnake, dark, reddish-brown with pink spots, lay coiled up under the ledge.
  — Patty Hodapp, Outside Online, 10 July 2018
• In 2015, the zoo announced that a baby pygmy hippo had died about one week after its birth.
  — cleveland, 19 June 2020
• For example, the pygmy right whale is sleeker and has a dorsal fin, whereas the right whale does not.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
• The prevalence of the third species, a pygmy gecko that looks like a yellow rubber fishing lure, does not appear to have changed much.
  — Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2018
• Creatures great and small At Perth Zoo, species that were detected spanned in size from the pygmy marmoset to the Asian elephant.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• The wildlife in the vicinity includes pygmy goats, Iranian sheep, and black bears.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• Tree lizards and pygmy geckos, both native to the island, linger in nearby patches of shade.
  — National Geographic, 2 Jan. 2020
• But why has the Dublin mixed-media artist painted a pygmy hippo on the instrument?
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• African pygmy falcons let out a piercing calls, scratching guests’ ears.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2024
• This pygmy sea horse, which lives off the coast of Derawan Island in Borneo, is the smallest of its kind, about half an inch long.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2010
• Examples include the pygmy elephants of Malta, the dwarf Burmese python and even some species of dinosaur.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2020
• While coral reef pygmy govies survive for less than ten weeks, Greenland sharks can endure more than 500 years.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
• Guests are welcome to visit the white pygmy goats and might even have the opportunity to pet, feed, or walk (yes, walk) them.
  — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 25 July 2018
• Nielsen’s four goats — Spices, Patches, Kaykay and Captain — are fully grown pygmy goats about the size of a small border collie.
  — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 7 May 2017
• Under a piece of bark, Apodaca found a pygmy salamander no more than an inch long with pale, golden skin.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024