How to Use mammal in a Sentence

mammal

noun
Definition of mammalnext
  • Human beings, dogs, and cats are all mammals.
  • The slowest mammal in the world is the three-toed sloth.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022
  • This was the first time the virus made the jump from a mammal to a human.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 July 2024
  • Asian elephants like Rani are among the largest land mammals in the world.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This may be the first Arctic wolf to be cloned, but it’s not the first mammal.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The waterfront has emerged as a hot spot for the mammals in 1989.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 4 May 2024
  • The mammals are likely to be the first thing most people notice about the menu.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The parasites live in some species of birds and mammals.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Pangolins are believed to be the most trafficked mammal in the world, per the WWF.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
  • The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
    — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
  • There’s a new chunky mammal in the spotlight in Alaska this week.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2022
  • When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • There isn't a mammal on the planet that could survive that.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The duck-billed, egg-laying mammals haven’t been recorded within the park’s bounds since the 1970s.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Small mammals, like mice, rabbits, and voles, make up the bulk of their diet.
    — Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Or that in 2016 the bison was named the national mammal of the United States.
    — Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • My goose bumps in the desert were a social mammal’s request for warmth via touch.
    — James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But Prairie Dog isn’t the only collared mammal that has faced a python.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • He is also banned from owning any mammals for the rest of his life.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The massive mammal then struck the man with its head, lifting both man and child into the air.
    — Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
  • The platypus -- along with the echidna -- are the only mammals in the world that that lay eggs, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The ocean mammal was spotted in the same area again on Friday morning.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, are boys insects and girls mammals?
    — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • Fish such as anchovies feed on the algae, and marine mammals feed on the anchovies.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2023
  • But the true pulse of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the hoofbeat of elk, the park’s most abundant large mammal.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • In others, most notably mammals and large sharks, the egg resided for longer and longer inside the body to stay warm.
    — Jules Howard, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There’s the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (goodbye T-rex, hello mammals!) and the one that formed Earth’s Moon.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Just then, the massive marine mammal reared out of the water and into the other boat.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
  • Since dolphins are mammals, microplastics may well pose these health risks for them, too.
    — Leslie Hart, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
  • These small cats, often mistaken for house cats due to their size and coloration, are capable jumpers and hunters of small mammals and birds.
    — Tom Howarth follow, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024

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