How to Use vampire bat in a Sentence

vampire bat

noun

• The case marked the first rabies death in the United States due to a vampire bat.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• In one part of the exhibit, a vampire bat flies away from its mount.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• There are three species of vampire bat: common, white-winged and hairy-legged.
  — Washington Post, 3 July 2021
• That’s why vampire bats make the perfect subject for this kind of study, Carter says.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 23 Mar. 2020
• Or slow-motion video of a vampire bat catching a mouse?
  — Anand Varma, National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
• Even snub-nosed, blood-sucky vampire bats have some endearing traits.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Nov. 2019
• Costumes to turn me into a spread-winged vampire bat, a king cobra, Papa Smurf.
  — Sólveig Eva Magnúsdóttir, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The saliva of a vampire bat contains an anti-clotting agent called desmoteplase, which is used to protect against strokes.
  — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2017
• There’s the famous vampire bat, which nicks the ankles of cattle and other animals and laps the trickling blood.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
• The common vampire bat shares its food with roostmates whose hunt ended in failure.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
• Leto’s character slices open his hand, then enters a cave where thousands of vampire bats dwell.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2020
• Now new research has tapped into the secrets of how vampire bats form these intimate bonds.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2020
• Just in time for October 31, this tricky puzzle challenges you to find the hidden vampire bat among the ghosts, pumpkins, cauldrons, and cats.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2018
• This study establishes the first case of the hairy-legged vampire bat consuming human blood.
  — Leah Froats, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
• Today's study puts the vampire bat in the same rare company as the bottlenose dolphin, which is the first mammal known to be unable to taste bitterness.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2014
• Only a few other animals, such as vampire bats and pit vipers, are known to have this ability.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
• The team sequenced genes responsible for taste receptors in all three vampire bat species as well as 11 other species of bat.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2014
• Thanks to a local anesthetic in their spit, vampire bats are able to drink blood from their prey without being detected.
  — smithsonianmag.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• For example, vampire bats donate some of their blood meal to community members that fail to find prey.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2015
• This includes the clouded leopard, black-footed cat, fennec fox, vampire bats and aardvarks.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
• The vampire bat brain may have also benefitted from a fortuitous gene loss.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2022
• Although some people may first think of the blood-drinking vampire bat, there are also insectivorous and fruit bats.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 28 Oct. 2019
• Bats have long been among the world’s most despised animals, due largely to myth and Hollywood’s fascination with vampire bats.
  — National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2016
• For example, vampire bats continue to provide food for their sick groupmates, but avoid grooming them.
  — Popular Science, 6 Apr. 2020
• The unique opportunity that vampire bats offer is twofold.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Structural Success The Julius lab sports an eclectic mix of chemistry diagrams and photos of animals that his students have studied, such as snakes and vampire bats.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2014
• The ability to sense weak, radiating heat is known in only a handful of animals: Black fire beetles, certain snakes, and one species of mammal, the common vampire bat, all of which use it to hunt prey.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 28 Feb. 2020
• That indicated a vampire bat, pushed north from its usual habitat in Mexico by climate change.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Draculin is an anticoagulant from vampire bat venom and is used to treat stroke and heart attack.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• Every performance today contains at least traces of a lost world of courtiers, etiquette and aristocratic graces, even if the subject matter is magic swans or vampire bats.
  — Marilyn Bailey, star-telegram, 1 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024