How to Use silverback in a Sentence

silverback

noun

• So when the silverback sits and eats, the others eat as well.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• In the comics, decades ago, M’Baku was the silverback gorilla.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• The large adult male sitting next to her, known as a silverback, looks at him quizzically.
  — Fox News, 12 Nov. 2019
• The new father is a 26-year-old silverback named Okpara.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2020
• The massive silverback reclines and allows his kids to jump on him.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• Earlier this month, the zoo lost a beloved silverback gorilla – the oldest at the zoo.
  — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Ivan the 400-pound silverback gorilla is the focus of this live action and CGI hybrid film.
  — Katey Clifford, al, 14 Aug. 2020
• At the bars, the enormous silverback Kidogo, who’d come to Krefeld from the Danish zoo, was waiting for snacks from his keeper.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
• The pair were moved out of an enclosure led by a silverback gorilla.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
• Expect thick jungle, a lot of sweat, and then the miracle of witnessing the deep gaze of a watchful silverback.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2019
• Ozzie, a western lowland silverback, was found dead by his care team Tuesday morning, the zoo said in a news release.
  — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
• In late September, Anker and Tate sent me a selfie video: two silverbacks on a ridge during a golden-hour hike.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• The silverback smelled the smoke from our fire and began roaring and retching to intimidate us.
  — Jerome Lewis, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2020
• The silverback named Winston had pneumonia, likely caused by the virus, as well as heart disease.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021
• The silverback named Winston, had pneumonia, likely caused by the virus, as well as heart disease.
  — Julie Watson, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• For more than a decade, Ramar was the zoo’s dominant male gorilla, known as a silverback.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• The newborn, whose name has yet to be announced, is Lulu’s second surviving baby, and the eleventh for her mate, a 30-year-old silverback named Taz.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
• Josephine was a silverback gorilla who gave birth to Moja.
  — Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2017
• Baraka, the 400-pound silverback gorilla, lay on his back with a tube down his throat, red-and-orange booties on his feet, and his insides beamed in color on a video screen.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• There’s often a silverback male, one or more males and other females, plus offspring.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
• For much of their lives, Frank and Monroe had been living at the park in a gorilla troop led by silverback gorilla Winston, 50.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
• Cassius was the troop's silverback, the dominant, breeding male gorilla, the dad.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2018
• His arrival also coincides with the death of Pete, a 50-year-old silverback who died Sunday.
  — Hannah Rodriguez, The Seattle Times, 9 Nov. 2018
• The 40-year-old silverback gorilla who died last week had heart disease, according to Woodland Park Zoo.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Moke was born April 15 to his mother, Calaya, and his father, a hulking silverback gorilla named Baraka.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• The male silverback had grabbed and dragged a small boy who had fallen into the gorilla enclosure, and fearing for the boy’s safety, zoo workers shot and killed the gorilla.
  — The Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• Previously this summer, the zoo received a male silverback gorilla named Casey from the same zoo.
  — Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2017
• After a grueling hike into the forest, I was rewarded by the playful antics of the infants, rolling around the tundra, under the careful watch of the silverback.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 2 June 2017
• In 1971, at the invitation of Dian Fossey, Humphrey spent two months in the mountains of Rwanda studying a group of silverback gorillas.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• Her mother was killed during the abduction, and according to Virunga.org, the same is thought to be true of her family’s dominant silverback male.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 21 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024