How to Use marten in a Sentence

marten

noun
  • That would equate to over 1,000 marten in a three-month season.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Top prices for marten are around $70, and that is for the best — the average will come in far lower.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Pelts from these marten are used world-wide to make clothing for warmth and fashion.
    Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The marten’s head dates from the same period as the painting and is in the exhibition.
    Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • The meat-eating Humboldt marten is about the size of a kitten and is related to minks.
    Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Thomas asked them to redesign the project, with an eye to protecting marten habitat.
    Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Growers often use rat poison to protect their crop, which kills martens, the groups said.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The rule bars trapping in the two national forests in the state where the only two marten populations live.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The fisher cat is a member of the weasel family and is most closely related to a mink or a marten.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Aristotle also compared the dog to a marten, a member of the weasel family, perhaps because of its size.
    New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The group includes martens, weasels, badgers, honey badgers, otters, and sea otters.
    National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • The story included a map of the range of pine martens, which showed that populations lived in the area of a controversial iron mining site in Ashland and Iron counties.
    Lee Bergquist, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2017
  • The marten, a member of the weasel family, is not endangered, but its population levels are seen as a useful proxy for forest health.
    Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The Canadian Rockies hold a huge number of carnivores—wolves, cougars, wolverine, lynx, coyote, marten, and smaller weasels.
    Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 14 June 2018
  • Mink are members of the Mustelidae family that also includes weasels, badgers, otters, marten and wolverines.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Solitary trappers poke trails into some remote sections in search of marten during the winter months, but with the dismal demand for furs, trappers are a disappearing breed.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
  • This second critter—a stone marten, in fact—will be a part of an exhibit in Rotterdam, Netherlands, about the deadly side effects between the interaction of human engineering and the natural world.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Researchers also saw higher numbers of racoons, Japanese marten, a weasel-like animal, and Japanese macaque or monkeys in uninhabited or restricted zones.
    Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Before California’s population ballooned to roughly 40 million people, fur trapping played a significant role in the extirpation of wolves and wolverines and the severe declines of sea otters, fishers, martens, beavers and other fur-bearing species.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Interestingly, other animals occasionally visited the burrows—including an extinct relative of martens and weasels, probably looking to make a meal of the burrow’s maker.
    Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019

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