How to Use bison in a Sentence

bison

noun
  • 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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