How to Use langur in a Sentence

langur

noun

• No charges in the langur monkey case have been announced.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• As late as 2011, many researchers feared the langur was extinct.
  — Dave Mosher, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2012
• Not in the flashy way of, say, the Spix’s macaw (which is believed to be extinct in the wild) or the Gee’s golden langur (which is endangered).
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
• Enter the langur – or at least, cardboard cutouts of langurs – and men trained to sound like the bigger primates.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• Dozens of grazing deer perk up their ears, then join in the staccato warning screeches of the langur monkeys and birds high up in the trees.
  — Charukesi Ramadurai, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
• That same day, a similar cut was found in the mesh surrounding the langur monkeys, though none of them escaped.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Video shows the boy at about a year old poking and prodding a group of gray langurs, a small species of old world monkey that has a large population in this region.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2017
• That same day, Dallas Zoo staffers spotted a similar cut in the fencing where its langur monkeys are held.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• The next day, a similar fence cut was found at a second enclosure, which contains the zoo's langur monkeys.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 30 Jan. 2023
• That day, Dallas Zoo staffers spotted a similar cut in the fencing where its langur monkeys are held.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• Bats, bull sharks, lions and langurs are getting roped into the quest to create live television events.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 5 July 2017
• Meanwhile, zoo staff observed a similar cut to the enclosure of some langur monkeys, but none of them had escaped, the zoo said.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• Fish for the penguins could be supplied from the zoo’s freezers, and leaves for the langurs (a genus of large Old World monkeys found throughout Southeast Asia) could be sourced locally.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
• Light gray langurs hovered on the roadsides, vanishing into the forest as soon as a human appeared.
  — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
• Light gray langurs hovered on the roadsides, vanishing into the forest as soon as a human appeared.
  — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
• The day after the leopard incident, zoo staffers found the enclosure for langur monkeys had also been cut, though the animals remained in the habitat.
  — María Paúl, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• While the feline was found close to her habitat later that day, zoo personnel also found a similar cut had been made to the enclosure of some langur monkeys.
  — Andi Babineau, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
• No one was around me except for a bleating goat, a black-faced langur monkey hanging by its tail on the Neem tree and perhaps an uninterested peacock.
  — Dr. Monita Soni, al, 2 Oct. 2019
• Life-size cutouts of langur monkeys have been scattered among the half a million decorative plants placed across the city with the aim of scaring away their archenemy, rhesus monkeys that plague parts of the city.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Here’s to hoping the Iberian Lynx and purple-faced langur are able to overcome their existential threat and embrace a sustainable, bright future.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2018
• Zoo workers had also found a similar gash in an enclosure for langur monkeys, though none got out or appeared harmed, police said.
  — Jamie Stengle, ajc, 1 Feb. 2023
• He is also connected to the langur monkeys’ cut enclosure, a police spokeswoman said, but Pin’s death is an unlinked mystery.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• The day after Nova escaped, officials revealed a similar cut was found on an enclosure of langur monkeys, but said all of the langurs were in their habitat and accounted for.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
• Delhi officials even hired people to impersonate langurs to keep rogue macaques out of parliament.
  — Jason Overdorf, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
• Like the grieving langur monkey, Zimmer argues, our understanding of life itself has always been and may always remain an exercise in pure instinct.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
• Dallas Zoo officials later discovered cut enclosures for langur monkeys, which were still in their habitat, and then the unusual death of an endangered vulture named Pin.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• That same day, investigators discovered a second fence had been similarly cut at a habitat for langur monkeys, police said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2023
• The property also curated incredible experiences for us, from massages over a burbling brook at the jungle spa to a hike to learn more about the resort’s conservation efforts with langur monkeys.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• Amit Dave / Reuters To protect public areas from rhesus monkeys, which are a nuisance and often attack people, officials have put up life-size cutouts of langurs, a bigger primate that the rhesus monkeys find intimidating.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Investigators discovered the second cut fence at a habitat for langur monkeys on Friday, the same day a clouded leopard escaped from its enclosure at the zoo after its fence was intentionally cut.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024