How to Use warm-blooded in a Sentence

warm-blooded

adjective

• When the living host dies, the flea seeks a new warm-blooded host.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Our warm-blooded, bodies are too hot for the fungus to thrive.
  — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
• Evolving to be warm-blooded meant mammals could move at night.
  — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
• In time, the law evolved to include all warm-blooded animals, with the exception of mice, rats and birds.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2023
• Unlike many other ocean dwellers, whales are warm-blooded.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• Now, a new study estimates that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed the Earth about 180 million years ago, about halfway through the creatures' time on the planet.
  — CBS News, 15 May 2024
• This flying reptile was likely covered in a layer of fur and was also warm-blooded.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The small wingless insects grow to about the size of an apple seed and feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals — including people sleeping at night.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Mammals are defined as warm-blooded vertebrates with hair who produce milk to feed their young.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• As such, scientists know relatively little about the species, though it is known to be the only completely warm-blooded fish in the world.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 10 Aug. 2023
• The porbeagle, a large and graceful warm-blooded shark, has been observed playfully chasing peers, rolling in the water, and nudging kelp.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• This new addition means that there are likely more warm-blooded sharks than scientists thought and that warm bloodedness evolved quite a long time ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• Paleontologists have gone back and forth over the years on whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• But the microscopic parasite could infect any warm-blooded animal or find its way into the food chain, the study said.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• All mammals are warm-blooded and expend great amounts of energy to keep their insides toasty, and consistently so.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• A little savvy based on our warm-blooded bodies, food, appliances, furniture, the outdoor elements and more can go a long way.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Scientists had only recently come to understand that the fish were warm-blooded.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Being warm-blooded likely allowed the creatures to swim faster and gobble up bigger prey, reports New Scientist’s Sofia Quaglia.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
• Last year, her team reported a shocking discovery: that the megalodon, the giant extinct shark considered to be the largest fish that ever lived, may have been warm-blooded like mammals.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
• Leopard seals are unique as being the only pinnipeds to prey largely on other warm-blooded creatures, including fellow seals.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• The bluefin tuna, which is considered warm-blooded due its high hemoglobin content, dry ages with flavors similar to beef.
  — Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
• Two major groups of dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded—having evolved the ability to regulate their body temperatures—around 180 million years ago, according to a new study.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
• When intense volcanic outpourings caused global climates to rapidly swing between hot and cold, however, fuzzy and warm-blooded dinosaurs were better able to cope.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• Rabies can be fatal to humans and other warm-blooded animals if not treated properly, according to the state Department of Health.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Unlike crocodiles, Pterodactylus is believed to have been warm-blooded, although that is a more recent theory.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• These findings support the view that dinosaurs were not cold-blooded and sluggish, but warm-blooded, very active, fast-growing animals that dominated the Mesozoic landscape.
  — Roger S. Seymour, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• This, combined with their slow metabolisms and warm-blooded bodies, can make cold snaps—as Florida has recently faced—quite dangerous.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Using statistical analyses, the authors found that warm-blooded island species—a group that includes both birds and mammals—but not the cold-blooded amphibians and reptiles, tended to have a lower metabolic rate.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 12 July 2024
• What the Study on Pregnancy Says The study includes research on the reproductive energy rates of microscopic insects, reptiles, warm-blooded mammals including goats and deer, as well as humans.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 31 May 2024
• Enterococci are bacteria found in the gut of warm-blooded animals, including humans, and can indicate that fecal matter is present in water.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025