How to Use omnivore in a Sentence

omnivore

noun

• Thousands of plant and fungi species could serve as potential food sources; despite their carnivorous reputation, the bears are omnivores who largely dine on vegetation.
  — Benjamin Cassidy, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• The iPod zapped all the boundaries of genre or era, creating a new breed of pop omnivore.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2022
• If girls are sugar and spice, does that equate them to herbivores, to the boy-snips-and-snails of omnivores?
  — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
• Bears are omnivores and can live between 15 and 25 years.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 May 2023
• The vegan blue cheese dip is worth a try, even for omnivores.
  — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 30 Jan. 2018
• The big birds prefer seeds, insects, snails and snakes, but the omnivores will also eat pet food and plant seedlings.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 14 Apr. 2024
• So how could a book like this be making an omnivore like me so happy?
  — Alexander Lobrano, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Its menu, crafted by omnivores, has the potential to appeal to a wide range of eaters.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Sun bears are omnivores and their average lifespan in the wild is 25 years.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• This little omnivore would have scrambled through the trees over the heads of Tyrannosaurus and survived where the non-avian dinosaurs did not.
  — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
• Members of this group were mainly plant eaters or omnivores with sturdy builds; many of them had hooves.
  — Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
• Even omnivores are satisfied, peeling off the costra-like crispy cheese bits baked into the sides of the dish.
  — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 28 Feb. 2020
• The omnivore weighed about 50 pounds and increased in size as the climate became drier and cooler.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2018
• The gibbons are omnivores, but most of their diet comes from plants and not animals.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2024
• Bear scats vary widely based on what food sources the omnivore is digesting.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 30 May 2024
• Behavior Bush babies are omnivores that eat fruit, insects, and the gum that oozes out of certain tree species.
  — National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
• All three species are omnivores that spend most of their lives underwater.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
• Squirrel-like omnivores, meerkats are only found in the drier and more expansive parts of South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia.
  — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2018
• But many bears already seem to be thriving in areas where the trees aren't found, a reminder that in many ways grizzlies are omnivores that can be quite adaptable.
  — National Geographic, 22 June 2017
• Cooking a large piece of meat is an excellent form of self-care for any omnivore, something to cook as a way to celebrate and find strength in your aloneness.
  — Alison Roman, The Cut, 6 June 2018
• When previously out on a date with an omnivore, Janzen says her date made fun of male vegans.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 25 July 2023
• But for omnivores, the draw will be the pork platter, a meaty choose-your-own adventure of pork products, all made from whole animals broken down in Kaden's kitchen.
  — Michael Russell, OregonLive.com, 9 June 2017
• Pescatarians and omnivores will find something new each week in the restaurant’s fish special.
  — Carla Jean Whitley, al, 11 Nov. 2019
• The omnivores will also eat almost anything, from leather to backyard fruit, though many prefer wild prey, even when living in cities.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2016
• What does bear poop look like? Bears are omnivores, and like most wild critters their diet is constantly changing with the seasons.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 29 Nov. 2023
• This finding led the researchers to conclude that a baby Limusaurus would have been a carnivore or even an omnivore, using its sharp teeth to tear through meat.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Dec. 2016
• One of the candidates for earliest dinosaur, Nyasasaurus, was about the size of a German shepherd and was a lanky omnivore that likely fed on leaves and beetles.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
• Meerkats are omnivores from the mongoose family and are found in desert and other arid environments of South Africa.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
• The small mammals that also made it through were probably omnivores with a healthy appetite for insects, as the many ferns that were among the first plants to re-emerge weren’t all that nutritious.
  — National Geographic, 24 Oct. 2019
• The prescribed omnivore diet included at least one serving of fish, meat, or chicken every day, as well as one egg and a serving and a half of dairy.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 9 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024