How to Use gibbon in a Sentence

gibbon

noun

• The small snout of the skull would have made Alesi look like a baby gibbon.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2017
• The Kansas City Zoo is mourning the loss of a baby gibbon.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2021
• But this is the first example of the rare Hainan gibbon using them.
  — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 15 Oct. 2020
• The zoo’s news release did not include a name for the infant gibbon.
  — Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2019
• Avoiding the paved or dirt roads below our gibbon is far from easy.
  — Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• Just last week, a team of researchers described a new species of gibbon in China.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
• The Little Rock Zoo on Monday announced the birth of a new baby gibbon.
  — Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2019
• First, early apes used their arms to swing through the trees like modern-day gibbons found in Asia do today.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• The animals in the forest inspire me, the amazing gibbons inspired me to learn how to climb trees.
  — Unding Jami, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
• Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur oak tree, about 45 feet tall.
  — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• That spring a friend encouraged Gibbons to run for city council again.
  — Jasmine Leyva, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• The gibbons, however, seem well on their way to making a lovely union.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• In China, a subspecies called the white-handed gibbon may have gone extinct as well.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
• In the clip, the otter clambers next to the gibbon and starts smelling the ape's armpits and feet while repeatedly pawing the other animal.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• The animal had a short snout, similar to that of a gibbon but unlike other apes.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
• Dr Turvey and his colleagues were thus able to compare the animal’s skull, jaw and teeth with those of modern gibbons.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• Young explains that the swinging birds exerted as much force on their beaks as a swinging gibbon does on its arm, if not more.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• The Akron Zoo is asking people to vote to help decide a name for its newest addition — a white-cheeked gibbon born Dec. 9.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2022
• A year later, they were joined by 14 gibbons, but these apes, which typically swing through the canopies of Asian rainforests, didn’t take to the flat, small island.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• Wei-Haas reports that the fossil suggests that gibbons may have lived in central China 2,000 years ago.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 June 2018
• The Akron Zoo on Friday announced the name for its newest addition, a baby white-cheeked gibbon.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2022
• Sophia Paden holds a piece of papaya up to the fence for Pepper, a northern white-cheeked gibbon, whose counterparts in the wild number fewer than 1,000.
  — Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, 4 July 2019
• Gibbons will discuss the socioeconomic and political impact of the decade as well as the end of the Cold War.
  — Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 1 July 2017
• As an adult, a female gibbon sings elaborate duets with her male partner.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2013
• The infant gibbon is at least the second baby animal welcomed in Little Rock in 2019.
  — Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2019
• There are shy animals, like the hermit crab, and outgoing animals, like the gibbon, shaking you down for your KIND bar in the rain forest.
  — Colin Nissan, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The park has held off on an expansion of its gibbon pen, a big project that would have given the playful primates more space, but would have also required taking out a loan.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Though there are tiny apes (the gibbon, at under 20 pounds) and large monkeys (the mandrill, up to 80 pounds), apes are generally larger and require a lot more calories.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
• That means a swinging gibbon can rotate its entire body around its wrist, giving them a unique style of movement called brachiation (video).
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
• And those complex sounds are limited to a relatively small group of species that includes songbirds, gibbons and bats.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024