How to Use subadult in a Sentence

subadult

noun

• The 15 that Fennessy trucked down here are young adults and subadults of both sexes.
  — Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The 15 that Fennessy trucked down here are young adults and subadults of both sexes.
  — Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• In this species, subadult females are able to mate and produce viable offspring.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018
• This year, many subadult bears – usually 2.5 and 5 years old – are expected to be seen this summer.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
• Ten elephants—adult females, small calves at their sides, subadults also staying close—fled the throbbing din of rotors.
  — David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Stoner often saw a young subadult whose mother recently sent him off on his own.
  — Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
• An adult female gray whale was found on April 1, another adult female on April 3, and two more - a subadult male and adult female - were found Thursday.
  — Paulina Firozi, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2021
• The size of the bones suggest the group was made up of one adult around 22 years old, one subadult and two or three juveniles that appear to be roughly four years old, reports Cameron Duke for the New Scientist.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• Yet, the researches pointed out that the individuals doing this ranged from subadult to adult.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Two limb bones — one from a subadult ornithopod dinosaur, and the other from a juvenile ornithopod dinosaur — show tooth marks.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2012
• Scientists from the Marine Mammal Center described it as a subadult female.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2017
• Among juveniles and subadults, females accounted for over 99 percent of the turtles sampled.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
• Males accounted for 30-35 percent of the population, whether the turtles were juveniles, subadults, or mature.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
• With a bit of training, volunteers can learn how to differentiate between a calf, a subadult (grey) or an adult (white)—and even identify individuals using scars or unique pigmentation—in underwater videos and images.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2020
• The tiny clues documented how fast the dinosaurs grew and outlined their developmental stages through hatchling, yearling, juvenile, subadult and mature animals, offering greater insight into the lives of these reptiles than experts previously knew.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024