How to Use pinniped in a Sentence

pinniped

noun

• But this year-and-a-half-old pinniped had gulped down about 100.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• Among the most amazing of pinnipeds are the elephant seals.
  — Darren Naish, Scientific American Blog Network, 3 June 2017
• Now, city leaders are stepping in to help keep the pinnipeds safe.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The big fish feed on pinnipeds like seals that are typically found close to shore.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
• Year-round, the animals can be seen on or near the beach and at Seal Rock, a reserve for pinnipeds just offshore.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• These tiny crustaceans form the base of the food web and their displacement trickled up the food chain, from herring to salmon to whales and seabirds and pinnipeds.
  — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2019
• La Jolla has become a popular landing place for pinnipeds to haul out of the ocean and rest — and for tourists to gawk at them.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• Among marine mammals, pinnipeds, such as seals, do—but cetaceans, such as whales and dolphins, do not.
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Seals and sea lions are both pinnipeds, but seals are better adapted to life in the water and tend to be much smaller than sea lions.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee.com, 22 May 2017
• He’s thought to only be between three and five years old—relatively young for these pinnipeds, which can live to around 40.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
• Frustrated, boat users abandoned the yacht mooring spot to the lounging pinnipeds.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• Lost at Sea Frainer is not an expert in pinnipeds, the group of marine mammals that includes seals and sea lions.
  — National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2018
• Compared with more jovial sea lions and seals, even scientists have long thought of the 1.5-ton walrus as the most humorless pinniped.
  — Andrey Giljov, National Geographic, 29 Dec. 2016
• Federal guidelines advise staying at least 50 yards — about half the length of a football field — from pinnipeds either in the water or on the shore.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• Walruses are the exception to the rule, as these large, tusked pinnipeds have nearly hairless bodies.
  — National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
• There are also plans to do training on darting and sedating pinnipeds.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Apr. 2017
• Oregon and Washington paid trappers to kill or keep the pinnipeds out of the Columbia River until 1970.
  — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 14 July 2017
• Casts were made because preserved remains of whiskers or soft tissues of early pinnipeds are unknown.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2023
• These devices emit pulses of high-frequency sound and may be used to deter cetaceans from approaching fishing gear or to keep pinnipeds away from fish farms.
  — Gabriella Sotelo, Treehugger, 14 July 2023
• Some orcas specialize in eating salmon and other fish; others prefer pinnipeds (a group that includes seals and walruses), and a third type feasts on sharks.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 8 July 2019
• Transient orcas, the most common ecotype of killer whales in the North Pacific, hunt pinnipeds — marine mammals with flippers, such as sea lions and harbor seals.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Transient killer whales primarily feed on pinnipeds, of which there is no shortage in the waters around Astoria, while the Southern Residents prefer to dine on salmon.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 May 2018
• Those adaptations go beyond thick layers of blubber for insulation and up into the pinniped’s nose.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023
• The portly, pungent pinnipeds often invite themselves onto boats and docks to bask in the sun, damaging decks and otherwise being unruly.
  — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Sea lions, who congregate at Willamette Falls to hunt fish, have also contributed to the decline of Chinook and steelhead, though Sherwood said the predatory pinnipeds are not the primary driver of the drop off.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Modern-day seals or pinnipeds, such as harbor, elephant and ringed seals, are highly adapted to their watery environments and use their whiskers to detect vibrations underwater.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2023
• The relatives of present day pinnipeds primarily lived on land and in freshwater environments, unlike our recognizable harbor seals which spend most of their time under the waves in saltwater.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• Researchers had already discovered the capacity for vocal learning in species other than humans, including in songbirds, hummingbirds, parrots, cetaceans such as dolphins and whales, pinnipeds such as seals, elephants and bats.
  — Sonia Shah, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Though the summer camp is named after pinnipeds, the scientific classification of animals that includes seals and walruses, campers also learn about whales, dolphins and other marine mammals.
  — Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot, 26 July 2019
• Outfitted with specialized sensors that resemble lumpy metal yarmulkes with antennae, these pinnipeds are collecting data that’s helping researchers track how heat moves through ocean currents.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 6 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024