How to Use pangolin in a Sentence

pangolin

noun

• Up to a third of the pangolin species may have played host to the virus.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 30 May 2020
• Just as long as the jets don’t drive the pangolins away.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
• The loot also contained a half of a ton of pangolin scales.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• Four of the 101 pangolins seized from the fishing boat later died.
  — Rachael Bale, National Geographic, 26 Oct. 2017
• In the past decade, there have been well over one million pangolins killed to feed this demand.
  — Elly Pepper, Scientific American Blog Network, 5 June 2017
• There are three different species of anteater: the aardvark, the giant anteater and the pangolin.
  — Zoe Sayler, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
• He and his grad students are now working on a DNA map of pangolin poop.
  — Kate Brooks, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• One of the world’s most trafficked animals is the pangolin — for its meat and its scales, which are used for medicine.
  — Diane Daniel, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Lotter has said that Fodie was involved in the shipment of six tons of pangolin scales.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
• Maybe a human did start the pandemic, not a wild bat or a caged pangolin.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2020
• But that prompted some ivory poachers to turn to pangolins.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• This time around, the source of illness may have been pangolins or bats, instead of marmots.
  — Parag Khanna, Wired, 28 Feb. 2020
• The pangolin, for example, evolved scales made of keratin all over its body — the scales clock in at up to a third of the mammal's body mass.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2017
• Also known as scaly anteaters, the world’s eight species of pangolins are split evenly between Africa and Asia.
  — Rachel Nuwer, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2016
• Officials have now hauled in 37.5 tons of pangolin scales since April, the agency said.
  — Fox News, 23 July 2019
• A U.N. wildlife conference last year approved a ban on trade in all eight species of Asian and African pangolins.
  — Associated Press, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• There are eight species of pangolin and all of them are now threatened to extinction due to poaching.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Researchers think the virus could have gone from bats to humans via the pangolins in the Wuhan market where live animals are sold.
  — John Gage, Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2020
• Living animals tend to have tails with weapons that are made of keratin, like the quills of a porcupine or the scales of a pangolin.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• The average starting price for pangolin items, most of which were listed as used, was $544.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 26 July 2019
• Wendt said pangolin — the most trafficked mammal in the world — may be the next addition to Benny’s resume.
  — Sarah Wu, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2018
• Some of us browse the internet for photos of baby pangolins.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 27 Aug. 2019
• The pangolin scales, worth an estimated total of $35.7 million, marked the city-state’s third such seizure this year.
  — Fox News, 23 July 2019
• In fact, while some researchers go gaga over a cute panda or pangolin, Kwak has a thing for parasites.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
• In the last decade, officials have seized enough remnants to account for at least 1 million pangolins.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2023
• The two animals are the parents of the first pangolin born in captivity in Europe.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
• To a Sunda pangolin, a strip of forest that’s extremely long but just 800 meters wide might as well be no forest at all.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• Although poaching is not dealt with directly in the series, pangolins are the most trafficked animals in the world and are now on the endangered species list.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• But the desert is for creatures more elusive still: wild dogs, cheetahs, aardvarks, brown hyenas, porcupine, and pangolins.
  — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
• Horseback ride with the giraffes, commune with curious meerkats at sunrise, track endangered pangolins with researchers, and indulge in a special dinner so unique that ruining the surprise here would be unconscionable.
  — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024