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How to use bear in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Bear means a large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous) of the family Ursidae; having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet. Example: “We had barbecued bear for dinner.”

Examples of bear by meaning

nounThe meat of this animal.

  • We had barbecued bear for dinner.

nounA state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).

  • 'The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,' reported someone else.1976 June, CB Magazine, Oklahoma City: Communications Publication Corporation, June 40/3

nounA large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.

  • Bears are usually hunky, chunky types reminiscent of railroad engineers and former football greats.[1979 July 26, George Mazzei, “Who's Who in the Zoo?: A Glossary of Gay Animals”, in Robert I. McQueen, editor, The Advocate, number 272...
  • Bear sought by masculine white male, 30, 5'8", 165 lbs, for weekly safe encounter.1990 December 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 12
  • I have everything it takes to be a bear: broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair.2004 April 27, Richard Goldstein, “Why I'm Not a Bear”, in The Advocate, number 913, page 72

nounSomething difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.

  • That window can be a bear to open.
  • "This was a real bear to refinish.2014, Joe Buda, Pilgrims' Passage: Into a New Millennium; Rebuilding the Past

verbTo endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

  • to bear a railroad stock
  • to bear the market

adjectiveCharacterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.

  • The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.

verbTo carry or convey, literally or figuratively.

  • They came bearing gifts.
  • Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.
  • The little boat bore us to our destination.

verbTo carry (weapons, flags or symbols of rank, office, etc.) upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with...

  • the right to bear arms

More sentences with bear

  • Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.From the entry of
  • The Christens found the heathens dear, as the lion doth the bear.From the entry dear
  • Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.From the entry tree
  • Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.From the entry hibernate
  • The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.From the entry pinnate
  • I don't need to outrun the bear; I just need to outrun you.From the entry outrun
  • My belief is that there is a bear in the woods. Bill said he saw one.From the entry belief
  • He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.From the entry jibe
  • Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.From the entry ill
  • What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?From the entry orphan
  • I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.From the entry entice
  • It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.From the entry bear down
  • She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.From the entry witness
  • Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.From the entry play possum
  • In the dark, the teddy bear took on the appearance of a fearsome monster.From the entry take on
  • All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.From the entry machinery
  • Anyone with an unsubverted or cleansed frame of reference likely couldn't bear seeing such mistreatment and violence.From the entry frame of reference
  • To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.From the entry remains
  • Bears are omnivores: they can eat plants, but they also eat fish.From the entry omnivore
  • The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.From the entry nursing
  • The giant panda, familiarly known as a "panda bear", is not actually a bear at all.From the entry familiarly
  • My daughter has to sleep with her teddy bear or she gets scared.From the entry sleep with
  • The back of the coin bears an incuse coat of arms.From the entry incuse
  • It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear out their theory.From the entry bear out
  • Please bear with me a moment while I connect you to his office.From the entry bear with
  • The battleship brought her main guns to bear on the fort.From the entry bring to bear

Meaning of bear

  1. noun A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous) of the family Ursidae; having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet.
  2. noun The meat of this animal.
  3. noun A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.

Full definition of bear

Questions about bear in a sentence

How do you use bear in a sentence?
Bear is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “We had barbecued bear for dinner.”
What is a short sentence with bear?
“They came bearing gifts.”
What does bear mean?
Bear means a large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous) of the family Ursidae; having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bear (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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