How to Use ursine in a Sentence
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The non-ursine bears, the giant panda and spectacled bear, split off the line earlier.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
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Constantin, an amiable, ursine fellow just a month shy of his 50th birthday, sits in his football office.
—John Walters, Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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
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While some welcome the ursine renaissance, others suffer from it.
—The Economist, 11 July 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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