How to Use mammal in a Sentence

mammal

noun
  • Human beings, dogs, and cats are all mammals.
  • The slowest mammal in the world is the three-toed sloth.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022
  • This was the first time the virus made the jump from a mammal to a human.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 July 2024
  • The large mammal stands out at the zoo but can blend in to native forests.
    Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Asian elephants like Rani are among the largest land mammals in the world.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This may be the first Arctic wolf to be cloned, but it’s not the first mammal.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The mammal, that gets its name from the fin on its back, near its tail, is found in oceans across the world.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The waterfront has emerged as a hot spot for the mammals in 1989.
    Emma Bowman, NPR, 4 May 2024
  • So those are mammals, and then there are three bird groups.
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The mammals are likely to be the first thing most people notice about the menu.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The parasites live in some species of birds and mammals.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Pangolins are believed to be the most trafficked mammal in the world, per the WWF.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
  • The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
    Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
  • The creature has been Texas’ state mammal for more than two decades, used to the baking heat of the dry, flat state.
    Oliver Milman, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a new chunky mammal in the spotlight in Alaska this week.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2022
  • When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • There isn't a mammal on the planet that could survive that.
    Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The duck-billed, egg-laying mammals haven’t been recorded within the park’s bounds since the 1970s.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Small mammals, like mice, rabbits, and voles, make up the bulk of their diet.
    Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Or that in 2016 the bison was named the national mammal of the United States.
    Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • My goose bumps in the desert were a social mammal’s request for warmth via touch.
    James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But Prairie Dog isn’t the only collared mammal that has faced a python.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • He is also banned from owning any mammals for the rest of his life.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The massive mammal then struck the man with its head, lifting both man and child into the air.
    Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
  • Gow has been breeding the creatures, which are Britain’s rarest mammal, on his farm for the past three years.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The platypus -- along with the echidna -- are the only mammals in the world that that lay eggs, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The marine mammal is one of the world's most endangered seal species.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The ocean mammal was spotted in the same area again on Friday morning.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • Despite their stocky size, these large mammals can really move.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
  • These new species include small mammals, birds, insects, fish, reptiles, flowers, and fungi.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2024

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