How to Use mammal in a Sentence

mammal

noun
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  • Human beings, dogs, and cats are all mammals.
  • Asian elephants like Rani are among the largest land mammals in the world.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The mammals are likely to be the first thing most people notice about the menu.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The parasites live in some species of birds and mammals.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
    — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
  • When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • The duck-billed, egg-laying mammals haven’t been recorded within the park’s bounds since the 1970s.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Small mammals, like mice, rabbits, and voles, make up the bulk of their diet.
    — Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Or that in 2016 the bison was named the national mammal of the United States.
    — Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • My goose bumps in the desert were a social mammal’s request for warmth via touch.
    — James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But Prairie Dog isn’t the only collared mammal that has faced a python.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The platypus -- along with the echidna -- are the only mammals in the world that that lay eggs, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, are boys insects and girls mammals?
    — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • Fish such as anchovies feed on the algae, and marine mammals feed on the anchovies.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2023
  • There’s the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (goodbye T-rex, hello mammals!) and the one that formed Earth’s Moon.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That modest size wasn’t unusual for mammals at the time.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • The new study also revealed why the noise that humans make in the ocean is so disruptive and harmful for the large mammals.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers singled them out and gave them anandamide, a cannabinoid found in worms as well as mammals.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The deer caught on camera likely had been swimming for its life, as gators have been known to prey on them and smaller mammals.
    — Simone Jasper The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 4 May 2023
  • The genomes show that some mammals like bears evolved to be better at hibernating.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • These ticks are about the size of a poppy seed and found on small mammals like the white-footed mice living in the Northeast and upper Midwest.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But on Key Largo, midsize mammals are still abundant enough to study—hence the collaring.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The extinct but mighty megalodon and the living great white shark generate heat with their muscles the way many mammals do.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Fossils of ancient seashells, dinosaurs and early mammals have all been preserved in the rocks.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • Kova, a young polar bear who was moved into the zoo this summer, was one of the most active mammals Tuesday.
    — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The lowest soil reliance came from mammals, of which about 4 percent rely on soil for one or more stages of their life cycle.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In other rooms, the water is propelling an animal food timer for all of the critters and mammals that live in the treehouse.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Sea turtles and marine mammals such as fur seals have also been spotted on wrecks.
    — Avery Paxton, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • At the dawn of mammals, X and Y were just like every other pair of chromosomes — identical in length and shape and number of genes.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Amphibians play critical roles in the food web, and they are often eaten by birds, fish and mammals.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023

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