How to Use ruminant in a Sentence

ruminant

noun

• The bacteria live in the intestines of cows, pigs and other ruminants.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The proportions of carbon-13 in the fatty acids suggested that the milk had come from ruminants, such as cows, sheep, or goats.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019
• The third vessel likely held a mixture of both ruminant and pig or human milk.
  — Jillian Mock, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2019
• Some locals have doubts about bringing back the giant ruminants.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• The ruminant meat can carry disease-causing sickness and has been linked to outbreaks.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2022
• As Beano or ginger are to the human digestive system, an enzyme found in seaweed or lemongrass is to that of the ruminant.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2020
• In 1997, the United States banned most mammalian animal parts from being ground into feed for ruminants such as cows, sheep and deer.
  — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
• The project is looking into microbes that inhabit the stomachs of ruminants such as cattle and sheep.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• Cows and other ruminants such as goats and sheep have a special stomach called a rumen that houses millions of microbes.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
• Bluetongue virus, a ruminant virus spread by midges that was once confined to tropical areas, has reached as far as Norway.
  — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Historically, the source of rennet was from the stomachs of ruminant mammals, such as cows.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
• Take bluetongue virus, a highly lethal ruminant disease that is spread by biting midges called Culicoides.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Cattle, deer, sheep, camels and giraffes, among others, are all ruminant mammals.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
• Peste des petits ruminants struck a lamb-fattening unit in Israel.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• If the ruminants move like wild buffalo, in dense herds, never staying in one place for too long, the land benefits from the momentary disturbance.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• That starts with eating fewer cows and other ruminants—the fewer fermenting stomachs out there, the better.
  — WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
• Their four chamber stomachs, which categorize them as a ruminant, like cattle, enable them to digest the roughage.
  — Camille Sauers, Chron, 30 Sep. 2021
• One woman spoke about the theory that feeding seaweed to ruminants could help cut down on excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• The products from ruminant animals – sheep, cows and other animals with four stomachs – tend to have greater greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Quora, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• The bed of excrement also contained unusual levels of bile acids and fatty compounds found in the digestive tracts of horses and ruminants.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• If any unlucky ruminants or humans eat the infected plants, the cycle starts again with the parasites penetrating through the small intestines and invading duct work.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
• To look for the genes that let Santa’s helpers survive scarce food and months without daylight, researchers took advantage of a massive effort to sequence the genomes of reindeer and 43 other ruminants, including cows, sheep, and camels.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019
• Though the analysis match couldn’t tell exactly which type of ruminant milk once filled these tiny children's cups, cattle, sheep and goat bones are found at settlement sites across prehistory.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2019
• And the closest relative of the two viruses, which is even older, causes peste des petits ruminants, a sheep and goat disease that probably crossed to cattle more easily than to humans.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 30 Dec. 2019
• The rumen is the first of four compartments found in a ruminant’s stomach, where grass is partially digested via fermentation before passing through the rest.
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
• Senatorial milk may be derived from all ruminants, not just cows.
  — Nehemiah Markos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2020
• Young owns her own consulting business and has nearly 20 years of expertise in ruminant nutrition and research.
  — Staff Reports Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• Although geological processes can produce methane, without any need for life, most methane on Earth comes from microbes that live in landfill sites and in the guts of ruminants.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
• Buying carbon offsets for flights is nice in theory—but what would really put a dent in climate change is controlling the amount of methane released by ruminant livestock.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2022
• High-methane foods means meat—specifically, meat from ruminants.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024