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How to use bison in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Bison means a large, wild bovid of the genus Bison. Example: “At one time were bison on the American plains not merely abundant but superabundant: they seemed inexhaustible.”

More sentences with bison

  • At one time were bison on the American plains not merely abundant but superabundant: they seemed inexhaustible.From the entry superabundant
  • The string of bison strolled along the river.From the entry string
  • Mediportal animals include the bison, elephant, and rhinoceros.From the entry mediportal
  • An alpaca can be 'the mop-haired camelid', and an obstinacy of bison, 'the humpbacked, shaggy-haired animals'.2025, Juliet Maguire and Matthew Maguire, The Little Book of Second Mentions: The Art of Avoiding Repetition, Biteback Publishing. From the entry obstinacy
  • Ahead, in the Little Missouri River bottom, Jakub spotted an obstinacy of bison ambling down the riverbank.2022, Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Liveright. From the entry obstinacy
  • A great sea of rain clouds hovers over a string of bison.2018, James P. Ronda, Visions of the Tallgrass: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne, University of Oklahoma Press. From the entry string
  • Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle.2016 October 19, Robby Berman, “Scientists Identify the Elusive Higgs Bison”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022. From the entry Higgs bison
  • In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.2007, Texas Parks and Wildlife Service. From the entry browse
  • Bialowieza is home to the zubr, or Polish bison, which is a cousin of the American buffalo.1994, Don McKay, Our Global Village - Poland: A Cultural Resource Guide, Lorenz Educational Press, page 3. From the entry zubr
  • The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn."1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry prehistorian
  • Early French and English explorers and settlers had never seen a bison before, and thus lacked a proper term for it.2017 August, Neal Rappleye, ““Put Away Childish Things”: Learning to Read the Book of Mormon Using Mature Historical Thought”, in FAIR…. From the entry loanshift
  • They set out southward, skirting around the bison, tawny scouts wandering and studying the creatures, how they moved across the land.2011, James Howerton, The Cold Days, page 196. From the entry danken
  • It begins at the parking lot, where bison roam.1993 June 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “Yellowstone’s landmark in logs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2016. From the entry in spades
  • THE European bison, wisent or zubr (Bison bonasus) seems to be coming back into circulation again, at least among menagerie keepers.1959-11-19, "Market in European Bison", The New Scientist, page 981. From the entry zubr
  • A few animals, such as bison, commonly use an understep walk, while several species, including black bears, cougars and pronghorn regularly use an overstep walk.2012, Jonathan Poppele, Animal Tracks: Midwest Edition, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry overstep
  • Both herds and individuals distribute themselves over all of an area, and bison come back to regraze areas at varying time intervals.2000, Ernest Callenbach, Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains, page 28. From the entry regraze
  • Locally made ham sausage, koubasa, farmers' sausage, garlic coil, bison smokies, venison bratwurst and beer sticks; Spanish chorizo, Lebanese lamb kebabs, French merguez and Balkan cévapčići.2010, Amy Jo Ehman, Prairie Feast: A Writer's Journey Home for Dinner, page 182. From the entry beer stick
  • The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry epiphany
  • “They purposely crossed bison with domestic cattle to make a better beef animal,” which they called cattelo, said James Derr, a geneticist at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine.2007 January 9, Jim Robbins, “Strands of Undesirable DNA Roam With Buffalo”, in New York Times. From the entry cattelo
  • I went first this morning to the carcass of the bison we had killed for bearbait ; I found a bear had been there, and had already had his breakfast.1940, Annals of Wyoming - Volume 12, page 97. From the entry bearbait

Meaning of bison

  1. noun A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

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Questions about bison in a sentence

How do you use bison in a sentence?
Bison is used as a noun. For example: “At one time were bison on the American plains not merely abundant but superabundant: they seemed inexhaustible.”
What is a short sentence with bison?
“Mediportal animals include the bison, elephant, and rhinoceros.”
What does bison mean?
Bison means a large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

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