How to Use ursine in a Sentence

ursine

adjective

• The non-ursine bears, the giant panda and spectacled bear, split off the line earlier.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
• Wildlife officials, hunting her ursine assailant, trapped and killed at least four bears.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Constantin, an amiable, ursine fellow just a month shy of his 50th birthday, sits in his football office.
  — John Walters, Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2014
• Others will carry a bear canister, such as the BearVault BV500 to help keep ursine intruders at bay.
  — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2019
• The area around Kaktovik hosts growing numbers of bears each summer, and, as the Arctic remains ice-free longer and even the winter ice thins, these ursine guests are lengthening their stay.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• The area around Kaktovik hosts growing numbers of bears each summer, and, as the Arctic remains ice-free longer and even the winter ice thins, these ursine guests are lengthening their stay.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• To prevent any unexpected ursine house guests, the police department has a list of tips on its website — www.ci.glendale.ca.us/police.
  — Andy Nguyen, Glendale News-Press, 24 Apr. 2017
• While some welcome the ursine renaissance, others suffer from it.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• Its cuddly ursine protagonist (innocently voiced by Ben Whishaw) goes down like a warm cup of tea on a blustery day.
  — Eliza Berman, Time, 4 June 2018
• His character Syd first watches his grandkid in a Chuck E. Cheese-type fun zone before later hunting our ursine heroine with a shotgun.
  — Brian Truitt, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2023
• The scene begins with a pair of bickering emergency medical techs (played by Scott Seis and Kahyun Kim) stumbling on a scene of ursine carnage inside the forest’s ranger station.
  — Vulture, 1 Mar. 2023
• The sculpture, installed in 2005, has become a trademark image of Denver, a nod to its ursine neighbors roaming its outlying parks suburbs.
  — Amisha Padnani, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• And now that Paddington will step furry foot on stage, there is simply no excuse for another big stage — the Oscars — to continue ignoring the most important ursine entertainer of our time.
  — Marc Snetiker, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• His camera also captured clear photos of bear cubs, offering evidence that the unidentified animal was not ursine.
  — Lauren Kent, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
• One reason for this is their personal connection to one of their characters; Sterling is named after their childhood pet, a golden retriever who shared a lot of personality traits with his ursine namesake.
  — Jim MacQuarrie, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2011

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024