How to Use ocelot in a Sentence

ocelot

noun

• The jaguars and ocelots wait until the macaws come down to the clay.
  — Shaena Montanari, National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2017
• The ocelot proved unruly and was shipped out to the Portland Zoo.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2020
• Within a month, an ocelot was photographed in a river canyon on the ranch.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
• Palm Beach Zoo remains home to an ocelot named Jade, who arrived in 2010.
  — Jayda Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2017
• In the basement is the nightclub Babou, named for artist Salvador Dalí's capricious pet ocelot.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• Check out a cabaret show in Kenner, an art installation and a tiny ocelot at the Audubon Zoo.
  — Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• In Colombia, poachers have been killing more jaguars, pumas, and ocelots, Newsweek reports.
  — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2020
• Visit the giraffes, elephants and flamingos, and maybe get a peek at a baby ocelot.
  — Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• Blakely the Australian shepherd has cared for cheetahs, tigers, ocelots and more!
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• The ocelot is a midsize cat — larger than a house cat but smaller than a bobcat, according to the zoo.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• The filmmakers get remarkably close to the animals — not just to the ocelot but the birds and reptiles that the young cat must learn to trap in order to live in the wild.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
• In the gulch just to my southwest, a jaguar roamed during his three-year stay in the range, and an ocelot was recently spotted bounding through this spot.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• The neighbors include sea turtles, ocelots and howler monkeys.
  — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• Getting an ocelot or a cheetah can be as easy as sending a DM or text, agreeing on a price, and setting a pick-up date.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
• Long, squat, flat-faced jaguarundis have a uniform coat, while small, agile ocelots sport striking coat patterns.
  — National Geographic, 6 May 2017
• In the more than three months since the pandemic began, Araya recently told me, her project had logged only one slain ocelot.
  — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 6 July 2020
• At least one ocelot has also been photographed traipsing through the area multiple times.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2019
• Members of the military travelling with ocelots may board with Group 1.
  — Ann Beattie, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• In January, an ocelot was photographed in these mountains.
  — azcentral, 15 Apr. 2021
• In the ocelot enclosure, a eucalyptus limb used as a walkway by the aging cat was wrapped in rope to provide a better grip.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
• This four-pack of soft plush toys comes with a creeper, yellow ocelot, bat, and skeleton—all characters of the passive and hostile mobs that populate the game.
  — Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
• An entire row of shelves 50 feet long and 10 feet high is dedicated to the hides and mounted heads of big cats—cheetahs, tigers, jaguars, margays, ocelots, leopards.
  — National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2016
• The ocelot endeavor is a novel approach, Marinari says.
  — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
• Among them are the impacts on the seventy-plus animal and plant species that the new sections of wall now endanger, including the jaguar, the ocelot, the desert bighorn sheep, and the Mexican gray wolf.
  — The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
• On her computer, Zingheim found stunning photographs of birds, bears, ocelots and bobcats.
  — Phuong Le, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
• Jordahl said, listing the species that traverse the border through the stream channels: antelopes, deer, coyotes, bears, bobcats, ocelots, javelina.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• Since 2009, five male ocelots have been documented in southern Arizona.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
• This was the third time the ocelot attacked someone, and the city had to consider either killing the animal or sending it somewhere that it could be housed permanently, like a zoo or farm.
  — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2020
• The animals typically feed on fruits, seeds, nuts and invertebrates, the zoo added, and their main predators are large birds of prey, jaguars, ocelots and large constrictor snakes.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
• It is thought to have originated in an animal population, perhaps bats, before being passed to civet cats—a tropical animal that looks like a mix of a dog and an ocelot—then to people.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024