How to Use polar bear in a Sentence

polar bear

noun
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  • It was found for the first time last fall in a polar bear.
    — Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
  • In 1990, a polar bear killed a man in the North Slope village of Point Lay.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The three polar bears have one block each, waiting for them on the ground.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • The bird weighed as much as an adult male polar bear and was more than 11 feet tall.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2019
  • The boy was on the ground in a state of shock, as the polar bear hovered over him, about to attack.
    — Larry David, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • In ten years, all the snow leopards and polar bears might be gone.
    — Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • There were no dogs or cats, but there were polar bears and seals.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The crack of a rifle, the grunt of a polar bear, the spout of an orca, the bone-on-bone clash of narwhal tusks.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In 1990, a polar bear killed a man farther north of Wales in the village of Point Lay.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Why not just stop off at the North Pole on your way and drown a polar bear yourself?
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Known as the polar bear capital of the world, Churchill draws wildlife lovers from far and wide.
    — Julia Eskins, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The polar bear was just a faraway speck in a frozen white expanse.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • His life was marked not by school grades but by first fox trapped, first polar bear shot.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Back on the coast, Bud shot a polar bear, fulfilling one of his goals.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Some hope to glimpse a polar bear before the species goes extinct.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The Ouwehand Zoo welcomed a set of twin polar bear cubs on March 19.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2020
  • Now they have been found across the planet—even in the blood of arctic foxes and polar bears.
    — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The polar bear chased them back into the school, prompting the school's principal to slam the door to keep it out.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For a polar bear hot spot like Churchill, the response program makes sense.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Pete Alonso gets back to polar bear physique by the All-Star Break.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • An adorable polar bear in Greenland was seen waving to a tourist.
    — Fox News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • And, lastly, the average adult polar bears tip the scales at around 1,500 pounds, which is whole lot of bear.
    — Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
  • He’s been dunked in the Arctic Ocean, stuck in an Everest blizzard, and stalked by a polar bear.
    — Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The story of climate change has been told, in part, through pictures of polar bears.
    — Michele Moses, The New Yorker, 23 June 2019
  • From the spider monkeys to the chill pool for the polar bears, Como Zoo features the creatures.
    — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 5 July 2019
  • Step away from the bear: A large male polar bear yawns during a snooze on the west coast of Canada’s Hudson Bay.
    — National Geographic, 18 June 2020
  • That’s about the size of a large polar bear or Kodiak bear today.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Except that Andy had told me that a polar bear is faster in its initial burst than a racehorse out of the gate.
    — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the station’s residents used to sleep in tents, but a few years ago a polar bear showed up, so the tents have been replaced by metal sheds.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Between these settlers’ arrival on Iceland in the late ninth century and the present, around 600 polar bears have been sighted on the island.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024

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