How to Use puma in a Sentence

puma

noun
Definition of pumanext
Synonyms for pumanext
  • In the wild, tapirs face predation from large cats, such as jaguars and pumas in the Americas and tigers in Asia, as well as crocodiles.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2024
  • The shot shows the puma, standing hearty and regal atop a brown patch of earth that seems to float above the lights of L.A.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The team also uncovered a greenstone mask, and the skulls of a puma and a wolf.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2021
  • And new startups have been as rare as the sight of a puma on the Argentine Pampa.
    — Julia Scheeres, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2001
  • Some are shaped like a puma’s paw; others, an alpaca’s nose or a cat’s claw.
    — Madhur Jaffrey, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The attack was not recorded, but the zoo’s surveillance cameras placed the puma at the scene.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • To get a full measure of her dedication to the cause, start with the campaign’s poster puma, P-22.
    — Louis Sahagún Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • But at the end of the day, the park is the puma's territory -- a home to wild creatures where humans are the visitors.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
  • This is not the first time the Philadelphia Zoo has adopted a pair of orphaned pumas.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But by far the most popular and likely idea is a statue in Griffith Park, the puma’s home of more than a decade.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In Colombia, poachers have been killing more jaguars, pumas, and ocelots, Newsweek reports.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The scientists also found a lapis lazuli carved puma and a turquoise pendant near the Bolivian side of the lake’s Island of the Sun.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • But come winter, when those guanacos head down the mountains to graze in a smaller patch of snow-free land, so too do the pumas.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2018
  • The puma embarked on a perilous journey and crossed a dangerous border to make a new home.
    — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • One night in February 2012, Ordeñana caught sight of a large animal with a long, puma-like tail and paws.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The Aztecs, regular-season champions, were supposed to be the puma, poised to pounce.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Big cats – like lions, tigers and pumas – are the attention-grabbing celebrities of the feline world.
    — Jonathan Losos, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, Smith showed that pumas spend less time feeding near neighborhoods, forcing them to kill more deer.
    — Liza Gross, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
  • The puma headed into the Pulgas Ridge Open Space area after the second sighting.
    — Eric Kurhi, The Mercury News, 4 June 2017
  • The mountain lion's name comes from being the 22nd puma in a National Park Service study.
    — Stefanie Dazio, ajc, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The Eastern cougar is also known as the ghost cat, catamount, puma, painter, panther, and mountain lion.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • These elusive predators have many names, such as cougar, puma, panther, catamount, ghost cat, or painter.
    — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024
  • He and his coauthors tracked pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains via radio collars and determined when the big cats killed deer.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The sixth crossing was earlier this year and was far more surprising, officials said, because of the path the puma took.
    — Joseph Serna, www.latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • Facebook data showed that those in their early 20s had an age gap of two to three years, but once people hit puma age (33ish), the gap increased to seven years.
    — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Four days later, an 8-year-old puma, Soberana, died of intestinal trouble, the same day that a spider monkey drowned in a pond.
    — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • End your adventure in the stunning natural scenery of Torres del Paine to track for the elusive puma in one of the world's ultimate wild places.
    — Maita Barrenechea, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • End your adventure in the stunning natural scenery of Torres del Paine to track for the elusive puma in one of the world's ultimate wild places.
    — Maita Barrenechea, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The puma sighting is just the most recent incident involving a wild cat that Baskin has weighed in on in Alabama this month.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In a haze of maternal-ish instincts, Kathleen Hale hikes obsessively in search of the puma of Griffith Park.
    — Emily Perper, Longreads, 15 May 2017

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