How to Use orangutan in a Sentence

orangutan

noun

• Tara shared the baby with Tengku, 37, the only male orangutan at the zoo.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• Footage of the orangutan at the zoo in places he should not have been was featured on the broadcast.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024
• There's no way to know why the orangutan was reaching out.
  — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• And then there’s the sloth, the flamingo, the skunk, the orangutan, as well as a new yawning emoji.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
• And then there's the sloth, the flamingo, the skunk, the orangutan, as well as a new yawning emoji.
  — Michelle Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
• Satu, a male orangutan at the San Diego Zoo, died Wednesday.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
• The Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest ape on the planet, also shows up.
  — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
• What do African clawed frogs, orangutans and goats all have in common?
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
• In the wild, baby orangutans have a strong bond with their mothers.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
• The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek.
  — CBS News, 2 May 2024
• The Dublin Zoo’s orangutan, named Mujur, gave birth to a baby male last month.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Hannover’s other two orangutans moved last year to the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas.
  — Janet McConnaughey, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• In July, the Phoenix Zoo also lost a 15-year-old orangutan named Daniel.
  — Athena Ankrah, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The newborn orangutan, which is not yet named, is the fifth born to father Bandar.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019
• The Phoenix Zoo has lost one of its own: Daniel, a 15-year-old male Bornean orangutan who has called the desert home for nearly eight years.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2021
• The Sumatran orangutan — born on June 26 — is the first for the Pennsylvania zoo in 15 years.
  — Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
• Behind a fence no more than 15 yards away, an orangutan had plopped himself down on the grass.
  — Eric Sandstrom, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• The little orangutan is learning to climb, and the giant panda took a dip.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• One day in late June, observers heard sounds of a clash between orangutans.
  — Bykermit Pattison, science.org, 2 May 2024
• Karen, a 28-year-old orangutan, became the first ape in the world to get a coronavirus vaccine on Jan. 26 at the San Diego Zoo.
  — Fox News, 19 Mar. 2021
• Nenette is one of the last orangutans living in a zoo to be born out of captivity.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2019
• According to the Oregon Zoo, this brand new as-yet-to-be-named orangutan was born on April 13 at about 11 a.m.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2022
• So throughout the movie we’re being stalked by orangutans who are killing, one by one, the team off with throwing stars.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
• Napoleon’s first wife, Josephine, kept a beloved orangutan named Rose, who was treated more like a person than a pet.
  — Grant Addison, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
• An orchid, a baobab tree, a dugong, an orangutan, even at some future point the trace lines of a mycelial network––all of these should hold money.
  — J.m. Ledgard, Wired, 12 May 2021
• The infant's mother, a 19-year-old Sumatran orangutan named Indah, gave birth to the healthy male on May 1.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• Send tips, comments, and a wise and benevolent orangutan to [e-mail].
  — vanityfair.com, 13 July 2017
• Ota Benga, a young man from what was then the Congo Free State, was placed in the primates hall, alongside an orangutan.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Satu, a 26-year-old male orangutan, died after collapsing, the San Diego Zoo said.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• An orangutan at the Louisville Zoo recently asked for a close-up look at a young visitor.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024