How to Use warm-blooded in a Sentence

warm-blooded

adjective
  • When the living host dies, the flea seeks a new warm-blooded host.
    Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Our warm-blooded, bodies are too hot for the fungus to thrive.
    Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Evolving to be warm-blooded meant mammals could move at night.
    Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In time, the law evolved to include all warm-blooded animals, with the exception of mice, rats and birds.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Unlike many other ocean dwellers, whales are warm-blooded.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This flying reptile was likely covered in a layer of fur and was also warm-blooded.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • The small wingless insects grow to about the size of an apple seed and feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals — including people sleeping at night.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Mammals are defined as warm-blooded vertebrates with hair who produce milk to feed their young.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • As such, scientists know relatively little about the species, though it is known to be the only completely warm-blooded fish in the world.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This new addition means that there are likely more warm-blooded sharks than scientists thought and that warm bloodedness evolved quite a long time ago.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Paleontologists have gone back and forth over the years on whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded.
    Riley Black, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • But the microscopic parasite could infect any warm-blooded animal or find its way into the food chain, the study said.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • All mammals are warm-blooded and expend great amounts of energy to keep their insides toasty, and consistently so.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • A little savvy based on our warm-blooded bodies, food, appliances, furniture, the outdoor elements and more can go a long way.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Scientists had only recently come to understand that the fish were warm-blooded.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Being warm-blooded likely allowed the creatures to swim faster and gobble up bigger prey, reports New Scientist’s Sofia Quaglia.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • Leopard seals are unique as being the only pinnipeds to prey largely on other warm-blooded creatures, including fellow seals.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Two major groups of dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded—having evolved the ability to regulate their body temperatures—around 180 million years ago, according to a new study.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • When intense volcanic outpourings caused global climates to rapidly swing between hot and cold, however, fuzzy and warm-blooded dinosaurs were better able to cope.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Rabies can be fatal to humans and other warm-blooded animals if not treated properly, according to the state Department of Health.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Unlike crocodiles, Pterodactylus is believed to have been warm-blooded, although that is a more recent theory.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
  • These findings support the view that dinosaurs were not cold-blooded and sluggish, but warm-blooded, very active, fast-growing animals that dominated the Mesozoic landscape.
    Roger S. Seymour, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • This, combined with their slow metabolisms and warm-blooded bodies, can make cold snaps—as Florida has recently faced—quite dangerous.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Enterococci are bacteria found in the gut of warm-blooded animals, including humans, and can indicate that fecal matter is present in water.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Only cold-blooded animals can see infrared light, whereas warm-blooded animals release heat, preventing them from seeing it.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Scientists learned that dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded, active, and behaviorally complex.
    Asher Elbein, Vulture, 11 July 2023
  • Key Facts Toxoplasma gondii is a near-ubiquitous parasite that infects a wide variety of warm-blooded animals, including humans, and is transmitted by wild and domestic cats.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • High levels of fecal bacteria indicate the presence of pathogenic organisms that are found in warm-blooded animal waste and pose potential health risks to people who recreate in contaminated waters.
    Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Historical research had provided cold physiology with three guiding principles relevant to many warm-blooded animals: Bergmann’s rule, Allen’s rule, and Thomson’s rule.
    Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'warm-blooded.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: