How to Use vampire bat in a Sentence

vampire bat

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Camazotz might've been inspired by an ancient species of vampire bat that the Mayan Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala may have seen attacking and drinking the blood of larger animals (and possibly humans).
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2019

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