How to Use bison in a Sentence
bison
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See that tiny yellow bird that flew into the willows next to the bison?
— Jacob Job, Scientific American, 4 June 2021 -
The bison are not native and are descended from a herd brought to the area 115 years ago.
— Editors, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021 -
The birds are known to nest in pine trees near the bison paddock at Golden Gate Park.
— Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021 -
Unlike hunting, the park explained, the entire carcass is not kept by the person who has killed the bison.
— Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2024 -
The resulting boon for bison would be a boost for the region, according to Bustos.
— Andy Fies, ABC News, 11 June 2021 -
Check out the lovely drive through Lamar Valley, and spot a bison or take in the view at Gibbon Falls.
— Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 May 2021 -
Europe’s largest mammal, and also a stable hybrid) is from its ancestors—the aurochs and plains bison.
— Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021 -
The meat-eater likely ate bison and horses, too, DeSantis said, but not larger mammoths.
— Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021 -
Federal officials have talked about restoring bison to more areas of the U.S. West for decades.
— Matthew Brown, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021 -
Apart from being the second-largest land mammal in North America (the largest are American bison), moose take the crown for being the tallest.
— Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 -
In the middle of it all, a herd of some 200 bison graze.
— Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2024 -
The bison stuck around and his hooves were right over my head.
— Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022 -
The last count had 40 dead bison tallied in the Delta area.
— John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022 -
That is, until one of the bison turned, snarled and charged her head-on.
— Ariana Garcia, Chron, 17 Oct. 2022 -
The bison then gored her and tossed her 10 feet into the air.
— Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022 -
Some, like the wood bison, are raised and reintroduced to the wild.
— Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021 -
The years of bison freely roaming the Texas landscape are long gone.
— Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2022 -
The man and child were thrown into the air but were able to sprint away from the bison, which walked away.
— Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022 -
Those pieces include a cougar, a bison, a few deer, and a musk ox.
— Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024 -
At the time, park rangers didn’t know why the bison injured the woman.
— al, 29 June 2022 -
Bull bison, like those that gored the tourists, can grow to six feet tall and weigh as much as 2,000 pounds.
— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 June 2022 -
The bison is Europe's largest land mammal and weighs up to a ton.
— Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022 -
The wolves let go of the calf and then retreat, while the two adult bison flank the calf and usher it off to safety.
— Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023 -
The donkey heehaws for Billy at the top of its lungs, and the bison grunts back.
— Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022 -
The bison can be seen giving chase as the group hightails it out of their way.
— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024 -
The free-range bison for the steak tartare comes from New Frontier in Virginia.
— Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Or that in 2016 the bison was named the national mammal of the United States.
— Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023 -
The man’s injury was the first by a Yellowstone bison this year, the park said.
— Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024 -
For the Gullah Geechee, the focus is on water and fish, not land and bison.
— Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2022 -
The man, who has not been identified, grabbed the child, who was in front of the charging bison.
— Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
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