How to Use sea cow in a Sentence

sea cow

noun

• Hundreds would turn out to try to get a glimpse of the sea cow.
  — J.r. Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2019
• Plus, who wouldn’t want to ring in the new year snorkeling with a sea cow?
  — al, 16 Oct. 2019
• The 1-year-old sea cow was rescued off the Florida coast on April 9.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Lil Joe looked more like a sad otter than a cuddly sea cow.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• In response, the sea cows migrated to the park’s springs, which tend to be 72 degrees year-round.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Green shoots of hope reign eternal for both seagrass and sea cow, among those who study and love them most.
  — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• But before that, Steller’s sea cow played a key role in the West Coast’s marine ecosystem, researchers say.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• Dugongs are a species of sea cow which graze on sea grasses in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
  — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
• The 1,000-pound sea cows that lurk just below our waters’ surface have returned for the winter.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Due to the disappearance of a few species like the Steller’s sea cow, Alaska did not make the cut of places with fully intact ecosystems.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
• No one is certain why marine mammals like whales, sea cows and leopard seals are so big.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2018
• Take a ride on a dhow, a traditional African fishing boat, or ask your lodge to take you dugong (a rare sea cow) spotting.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
• Keep an eye out for dugong, a docile—but easily started—sea cow that delirious sailors of yore took for mermaids.
  — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• Some of the items were labeled as being made from bones from the Steller’s sea cow, a manatee-like animal that was hunted to extinction in the 1760s.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2022
• Its colossal jaws — measuring 9 feet by 11 feet — could devour almost anything in its path, from sea cows to seals.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• The city’s logo, a smiling sea cow, is festooned upon a water tower downtown.
  — Gabrielle Calise, Sun Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2022
• In fact, last year was the third worst for manatees on record with 520 dead sea cows found around Florida, reports the Associated Press.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• The list of the fallen includes some relatively familiar creatures, such as the passenger pigeon and the Steller’s sea cow.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• This gentle sea cow and nearly 44 percent of abalone shellfish species have been elevated to this level.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• Walsh and De Freese do too, and Anderson is optimistic that his seagrass restoration will continue to pay off for Florida's sea cow.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 May 2021
• The genome of Steller’s sea cow was decoded, and plans were unveiled to create a seagrass nursery for the Indian River Lagoon’s starving manatees.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• This marine animal - sometimes described as a sea cow - is usually found in Florida’s shallow rivers, bays, canals, and coastal waters.
  — Fox News, 28 July 2019
• So this peaceful sea cow is actually the result of a dying, exploded cannibal star.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2013
• One author especially noted the Steller’s sea cow, which was discovered in the 1700s only to go extinct within three decades of its discovery due to overhunting.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
• Bright green lettuce floats along cloudy gray waters, with sea cow humps breaking the surface as state and federal biologists pitch more heads of lettuce to appease the hungry manatee mob.
  — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
• The West Indian manatee, or sea cow, also faces challenges from tropical storms and hurricanes.
  — Chad Gillis, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
• An unofficial mascot of Florida sometimes called a sea cow, the rotund manatee is a large, slow-moving aquatic mammal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
• Island outcroppings in estuaries up and down Florida have become sea cow mass graveyards as more manatees succumb to the ravages of hunger every day.
  — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
• While most Floridians already admire and respect the state’s beloved sea cow, there is a day dedicated to learning about and appreciatingthe gentle giants of our waterways.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• Enter Email Sign Up While these oddly graceful animals are closely related to elephants, manatees are often nicknamed sea cows and are known for a diet of seagrasses and marine plants.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024