How to Use species in a Sentence

species

1 of 2 noun

• All European domestic cattle belong to the same species.
• There are approximately 8,000 species of ants.
• The plain species can get to be eight feet tall and wide.
  — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
• One of the most at-risk species is the little brown bat.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• The species can weigh more than 200 pounds and grow to more than 6 feet in length.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2022
• To learn more about this species, go to the zoo's website.
  — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2021
• This is one of the more common bat species in the county.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
• Will one form of the virus hop from species like fig to dahlia to tomato?
  — oregonlive, 11 July 2020
• The roster varies based on the time of year, species, gender and age.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2022
• Here is a species-by-species list with the top spots for sightings.
  — Maria Finn, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• They are made up of many species of corals shaped like fans and tubes and trees.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• Much of what defines us as a species is all in our heads.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
• This species, which draws its moisture from the air, has no leaves.
  — Mac Stone, National Geographic, 25 Oct. 2019
• In most species, there is heavy traffic into and out of the nest.
  — Michael Schulson, Wired, 1 Aug. 2020
• Both are home to red-legged frogs, a species of concern.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
• For decades, agencies have been working to keep the species alive.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
• Climate change is the number one threat to us as a species.
  — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2017
• In places, these were the only species of fish in abundance.
  — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Each species of shark is unique and has its own way of living.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
• There are several bridges in the Phoenix area that have that species.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 19 Mar. 2020
• The work has arguably helped lots of species more than pheasants.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2022
• How did gray wolves get on the endangered species list?
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
• Deer Park shutouts have joined the endangered species list.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2019
• No females of this species have yet to be found, Godwin said.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 3 May 2021
• There are 37 bare root species to choose from, Roskilly said.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• Most pine tree species come from distant places where the soil is acid and rocky or sandy rather than clay.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Dec. 2021
• But our species is not the sole measure of a continent’s worth.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• Those stems are all marked, mapped and identified to species.
  — Anne Showalter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
• But no species is more popular among hunters than the Rocky Mountain Elk.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 29 Feb. 2024
• The salamanders, a species called olms, were once believed to be baby dragons.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024

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species

2 of 2 adjective

• And that gives the researchers a chance to avoid one of the bigger challenges in cross-species sleep studies.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
• Researchers said not all viruses will spread to humans or become pandemics the scale of the coronavirus but the number of cross-species viruses increases the risk of spread to humans.
  — Drew Costley, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Exactly why and how these inter-species kill rates balance out remains to be discovered.
  — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2022
• The money comes from gambling at Texas horse tracks, which are required by state law to pay 5.5 percent of the interstate cross-species earnings to the Texas Greyhound Association, according to the appeal.
  — Emma Collins, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Dec. 2021
• The first Twilight novel—in which a small-town high school became the backdrop of a lusty inter-species love story—recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 21 June 2021
• Where their impact may have far wider implications is in making cross-species organ donation go mainstream.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
• Zaleski introduced us to another cross-species couple: a donkey, Jethro, and a very kissable llama named Lorenzo.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• According to officials, this type of cross-species infection is uncommon.
  — Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• This is a call for cross-species solidarity and to consider veganism alongside other social justice movements on the left.
  — Longreads, 5 May 2022
• To curb this cross-species disease transfer, the International Union for Conservation of Nature issued a set of guidelines in 2015 for scientists, tourists and other people who might encounter great apes.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• Foregrounding inter-species anxiety is certainly a new Middle-Earth take.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• Now, new research finds that these maestros of impersonation sometimes reproduce the sounds of an entire multi-species flock while courting females and during mating, reports Jake Buehler for Science News.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
• Her latest focus is on cross-species similarities in female health, a field that has long been underfunded, understudied and misunderstood.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Genes are typically transmitted vertically, from parents to offspring, and don’t involve inter-species crossover.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Mar. 2021
• Inter-species jumps of viruses make scientists nervous — as do suggestions of potentially significant mutations that result from those jumps.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 Nov. 2020
• Studies document how these tools measure different cellular properties, while a flagship paper describes the integration of data from 11 companion papers, to produce a cross-species atlas of cell-types.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
• Imagining such fabulous cross-species chimeras as these, and other mythological creatures such as centaurs, was a prescient ancient anticipation of the potential genetic future of humankind.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• It will be added to the county’s future East County multi-species conservation plan area, part of a regional program launched in 1998 to manage conservation, recreation and agriculture while carving out areas designated for development.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
• The characters populating this book, therefore, make up a diverse, cross-species cast—one imperfectly understood yet closely interrelated.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Movable eyes, however, have evolved only in a limited number of lineages—an adaptation notably absent in insects and most terrestrial arthropods—restricting cross-species comparisons.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
• No one had considered such cross-species vulnerability because human infections with monkeypox had not previously been detected outside of West and Central Africa.
  — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
• Another influential factor in cross-species transmission is probably proximity.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2020
• And that gives the researchers a chance to avoid one of the bigger challenges in cross-species sleep studies.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
• Researchers said not all viruses will spread to humans or become pandemics the scale of the coronavirus but the number of cross-species viruses increases the risk of spread to humans.
  — Drew Costley, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Exactly why and how these inter-species kill rates balance out remains to be discovered.
  — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2022
• The money comes from gambling at Texas horse tracks, which are required by state law to pay 5.5 percent of the interstate cross-species earnings to the Texas Greyhound Association, according to the appeal.
  — Emma Collins, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Dec. 2021
• The first Twilight novel—in which a small-town high school became the backdrop of a lusty inter-species love story—recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 21 June 2021
• Where their impact may have far wider implications is in making cross-species organ donation go mainstream.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
• Zaleski introduced us to another cross-species couple: a donkey, Jethro, and a very kissable llama named Lorenzo.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• According to officials, this type of cross-species infection is uncommon.
  — Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024