How to Use lion in a Sentence

lion

noun

• He was a literary lion among the writers of his time.
• And Ras has the head of a black lion and a weird beard.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• The real-life lion king of the Serengeti has died in Africa.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• Most small dog breeds have the heart of a lion and the swagger to go with it.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Woman's Day, 2 Feb. 2023
• And this will be a sign unto you: the lamb will lie down with the lion.
  — Bruce Headlam, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• But that doesn’t account for the lion’s share of the story.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 10 Dec. 2023
• The prowling lion goes first, the guardian cat goes next.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2022
• In the piece a lion, shown head-on, has clamped down on the back of a bull, carved in profile.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
• There’s a lion, a tiger, a camel, a stork — even a sea monster.
  — WSJ, 14 June 2023
• The lion has made his home in Griffith Park for a decade.
  — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• In 2020, the lion’s share of the passing game flowed through Olave and Wilson.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2022
• The lion’s share of the rest legally must go to schools — $37 billion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• The cost of crude oil accounts for the lion’s share of what drivers pay at the pump, though.
  — Kara Dapena, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• Not bad for a guy who walked in not knowing a lion from a tiger.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
• Jonathan Taylor, now a star running back for the Colts, did a lion’s share of the work.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2022
• In a flat first half, Indiana’s first five did the lion’s share of the Hoosiers’ best work.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Nov. 2021
• Their bite is almost three times stronger than that of a lion.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• The lion’s share of small business owners don’t have much of a say.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 22 Oct. 2021
• The officer arrived to find the dead lion — a 95-pound female — on the hood of the man’s Jeep.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024
• Once, Siegfried failed to escape the clutches of a lion that went off-script and bit his arm.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• To create, cut the lion's ears and face shapes from felt and attach with hot glue.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
• The lion is a symbol of England, and appears on the royal coat of arms.
  — Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2023
• They're known to be lively, cuddly, and of course, brave as a lion.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 3 May 2022
• While in the magical land, the kids meet a lion who recruits them to defeat the wicked witch, Jadis.
  — Madison Douglas, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2023
• The giraffe though can plainly see what the lion is trying to do.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Sukari was the matriarch of the zoo’s African lion pride, and had lived at the San Francisco Zoo since 2009.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2023
• The pistil of one flower is replaced by the lion's eye.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
• The throaty roar of a nearby lion startled me out of my reverie.
  — Christine Chitnis, ELLE, 24 May 2022
• The novel is about a lion in winter—an American soldier, Colonel Cantwell, wounded and worn out by war and slowly perishing of heart disease.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• So the legislature directed the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to look into mule deer herds and rewrite lion plans in any deer areas with high lion predation.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Mar 2025