How to Use hellbender in a Sentence

hellbender

noun

• At the time, the future didn't look very good for hellbenders.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
• Legend has it that the name hellbender came from the salamander’s looks.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2023
• If the hellbender can survive there, then many other species will too.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2021
• Photographer David Herasimtschuk says this image may be the first of a hellbender attempting to eat a snake.
  — National Geographic, 26 Dec. 2019
• The eastern hellbender is the largest salamander in North America, reaching two feet or more in length.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• One last glimpse Mealtime: This giant salamander, known as a hellbender, hopes to make a northern water snake its next meal.
  — National Geographic, 26 Dec. 2019
• In the short term, conservationists could keep the numbers up by rearing hellbender larvae for release and avoiding this danger at the nest.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
• The hellbender, for example, is a small salamander now found only in the state’s Blue River watershed.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2021
• Because the aquatic salamanders breathe through their skin, hellbenders can't survive in dirty water.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 30 Mar. 2018
• Or the hellbender, suggested by Christine Dell’Amore, an editor on the Animals team.
  — Jeff Kerby, National Geographic, 14 May 2020
• Male hellbender salamanders usually make doting dads, guarding eggs and shaking them free of silt.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
• Many of the same transposons were present in both the plethodontids and hellbender, which suggested that the parasites had first multiplied out of control in the ancestor of all living salamanders, more than 200 million years ago.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• Zoo officials praised his leadership and noted that his tenure saw the first birth of an African elephant at the Maryland Zoo, the addition of grizzly bears, the return of bobcats and new exhibits on penguins, golden frogs and hellbenders.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 27 June 2019
• Once common, hellbenders have disappeared through much of their range because of declining water quality.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 30 Mar. 2018
• Because of their scarcity, hellbenders have legal protection in North Carolina.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 30 Mar. 2018
• Mueller and her colleagues used high-throughput sequencing to analyze hundreds of thousands of random DNA snippets from six species of plethodontid salamanders, as well as another species called hellbender.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• Their relatives, the hellbender and the Chinese giant salamander, have similar mating systems.
  — Mary Bates, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2014
• Changes to the hellbenders' environment may have turned this once beneficial adaptation into a harmful evolutionary trap, Klug says.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
• The Center for Biological Diversity had petitioned for the hellbender to be listed as endangered in 2010.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2021
• The department is also monitoring the derailment's impact on hellbender salamanders, the state's largest species of amphibian, that is also endangered.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
• Biologists leading outings with Oxbow River Snorkeling will be sure to point out species like river redhorse, central stonerollers and elusive eastern hellbender salamanders.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2021

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024