How to Use guanaco in a Sentence

guanaco

noun

• The guanaco, three times the cat’s size, bucks and kicks wildly, its fur ripping away in gauzy chunks under the cat’s claws.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
• The pits also held bone fragments of Andean deer and camelids, such as vicuña or guanaco.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 4 Nov. 2020
• The guanaco, three times heavier than the female puma, managed to escape.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• Once hunted for their wool, guanacos are now protected by law.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2023
• On the walls are more than 2,000 high fives of ochre, red, purple, and white, prints large and small, likely stenciled by blowing mineral paint through a hollow bird- or guanaco-bone straw.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• The puma grips the fallen guanaco’s neck with her heavy teeth, and begins to drag its massive, flaccid corpse up and over the high plains of the southern Andes, toward the spot where her hungry cubs are waiting.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
• There, near the border with Chile, subantarctic forests preserve habitats for the guemal, puma, rhea, condor, and guanaco.
  — National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
• There, near the border with Chile, the 1,722-square-mile park encompasses subantarctic forests that preserve habitats for species such as the guemal, puma, rhea, condor, guanaco, and the calafate plant.
  — Melissa Findley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
• Even the animals feel like something out of a fairytale—the camel-lama-deer hybrid called the guanaco, the bunny-squirrel-cat mix called the vizcacha, and the pumas, who, as the hotel will explain, are always watching.
  — Teddy Minford, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
• Other art found in the cave shows hunter gatherer communities in pursuit of prey, most commonly guanaco, a type of llama found in the area.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• The guanaco, for example, relies on sips of water that is trapped by mosses clinging to cacti, which grow in soil fertilized by grit crust.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Abundant wildlife includes many varieties of birds, along with guanaco, the endangered huemul deer, puma (cougars) and the massive Andean condors.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• This picture shows huge lenticular clouds behind the silhouette of a guanaco, a llama-like animal native to South America.
  — National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2020
• The Rewilding team will eventually move a breeding population here to join the ranks of guanaco, choique (southern rhea), pichi (small armadillos), gray foxes, and pumas, who also manage to survive on these inhospitable mesas.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• Populating the ridge and surrounding slopes are herds of gazellelike creatures called guanacos; viscachas, marmotlike rodents with rabbity ears; burros; and hawks.
  — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024