How to Use albino in a Sentence

albino

noun
  • Or go to Gatorland and watch a gator show and see the albino gators.
    Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The garden was next to a dark pond haunted by huge albino grass carp.
    Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The thief got away with his founding albino male as well as females that were heterozygous for the trait.
    Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Not an albino, Big Medicine had a mostly white coat with a tuft of brown that sometimes appeared near his horns.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022
  • The rare albino tortoise is out on exhibit, so zoo guests can meet the unique creature.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2022
  • Alvarez is counting on the duo to retrieve tiny albino shrimp found only in these caves.
    Jennifer Berglund, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2014
  • The pan-sized rainbow trout weighed about a pound apiece, and the channel catfish were 2-pounders, with a few trophy rainbow trout and albino catfish in the mix.
    cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The 10-inch albino snake found on the Texas Hill Country ranch was missing the pigment and melanin that gives animals much of their colorations.
    Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Claude the albino alligator and crabs made the Final Four.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • When, in 2001, Britney Spears strutted across stage with the thick rope of an albino snake draped across her shoulders, viewers spoke of little else.
    Hazlitt, 4 May 2022
  • So, the snake is not a true albino because other colors remain.
    Brian Broom, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Come for the juicy details about albino peacocks and airlifting elm tea bags to Madonna, and stay for … the egregious cronyism!?
    Longreads, 15 Dec. 2021
  • With the gene disabled, the pigments were absent, resulting in albino lizards.
    Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2019
  • She’s seen another albino at the Spanish Steps in Kalorama.
    Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • First spotted in 2014, marine biologists believe Casper is either albino or leucistic — both cause a loss in pigment in the skin and hair — but no one knows for sure.
    Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
  • True albinos are unable to produce any kind of pigment, hence their white coloration and pink eyes: Blood vessels normally masked by eye color show through.
    National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2016
  • Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas, is now home to two baby wallabies – one of which is albino.
    Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Calico lobsters are the third rarest lobsters in the world, preceded by split-colored and albino lobsters, the spokesperson said, adding that the chance of catching a calico is 1 in 30 million.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 9 May 2021
  • On December 10, Thurman had the predator hunt of a lifetime, bagging two bobcats during one mid-morning sit—one of which turned out to be an extremely rare albino.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Claude, the Academy’s albino alligator, can shelter-in-place in his newly remodeled home, a project planned before the shutdown to give him more space to rest outside the water.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2020
  • The Blue Velvet actress mourned another death in her extended pet family when her albino goldfish died back in March 2020.
    Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Leucism, however, does not have the pink eye that is a characteristic of an albino, according to Fox Chattanooga.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 11 July 2022
  • Folks in southern Oklahoma are currently on the lookout for a giant albino reticulated python that has been living for months near a trailer park.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
  • McCurley, who had been breeding reptiles while working a day job as an electronic technician, couldn’t afford an albino, let alone a pied.
    Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • An incredibly unique albino echidna has been spotted in Australia, wandering in Bathurst, a city about 120 miles northwest of Sydney.
    Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • Zookeepers named the baby wallaby after an island off Tasmania in Australia, which experts say is home to a colony of around 200 albino wallabies.
    Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Even more people believe palominos are albinos, which is incorrect.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Some of Ukerewe's albinos were rescued from communities for their own protection.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 13 June 2017
  • Harmonizing with nature here means encouraging all to roam freely, including four albino horses and seven albino Etawah goats, who may join guests for a swim in the nearby waterfalls and tide pools.
    New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • Claude the albino alligator seems to appreciate the quiet.
    Ananya Panchal, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2020

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