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How to use cub in a sentence

35 example sentences · noun, verb

Cub means the young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger. Example: “Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.”

Examples of cub by meaning

nounA boy or young man.

  • A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14
  • The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man.2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229

verbTo hunt fox cubs.

  • He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horse ate its head off in a stable.1943, Stuart Palmer, The Puzzle of the Silver Persian

More sentences with cub

  • Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.From the entry tree
  • This kind of play helps the young lion cubs develop their hunting skills.From the entry play
  • What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?From the entry orphan
  • The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.From the entry nursing
  • The lioness was a mother of four cubs.From the entry mother
  • The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.From the entry whelp
  • Mother bears are famously protective of their cubs.From the entry protective
  • I was a cub reporter, with limited insight, for the public broadcaster.2023 August 7, Mia Malan, “A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality”, in The…. From the entry cub reporter
  • He was a papa bear protecting his cub and his heart.2022, Cat Johnson, City Girl Seeks Cowboy, →ISBN, chapter 18, page 117. From the entry papa bear
  • A tiny cub is learning the art of stalking a little too well it seems.2019 October 9, "Tiny cub gives lion a huge fright", Hindustan Times. From the entry stalking
  • More and more latents have been discovered, as well as cubs.2016, Christa Wick, Alpha Curves: A BBW Shapeshifter Romance. From the entry latent
  • 'If the cub has a grievance, let him bring it to the King's judgement,' answered Saeros.2007, J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Húrin. From the entry woodwose
  • Gordy, who looks sort of like a bear cub, only not cute, is a very huggy person.2007, Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct, page 58. From the entry huggy
  • Finally, Odin caught Fenris the wolf cub and dragged the howling, struggling beast back home to Asgard.2000, Vic Parker, Traditional Tales from Norse Lands, page 20. From the entry Fenris
  • In that mode, she reminded him of mamma grizzlies and female lions defending their cubs.1998 August, Camille Bacon-Smith, chapter 8, in Eyes of the Empress (Daemons, Inc., 2; DAW Book Collectors No. 1094), New York, N.Y.: DAW…. From the entry mamma grizzly
  • All the other cubs came forward and smelled their new denmate.1984, Owens, Mark, 1944-; Owens, Delia, Cry of the Kalahari. From the entry denmate
  • He had begun at 18 as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star.1967, Carlos Baker, "His Beat Was The World," (review of By-line: Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White), New York Times, 28 May, p.…. From the entry cub reporter
  • To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111. From the entry slot
  • A wolf-mother was not made to remember her cubs of a year or so before.1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC…. From the entry wolf-mother
  • A video posted on social media shows the cub surprising its mamma and giving her a huge fright.2019 October 9, "Tiny cub gives lion a huge fright", Hindustan Times. From the entry stalking
  • They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year.1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry sow
  • The cubs, Boris and Svetlaya, had been rescued from the wild as unrelated 3- to 5-month-old cubs in the Sikhote-Alin mountains, the animal’s main stronghold.2024 December 11, Anthony Ham, “120 Miles of Russian Forest Couldn’t Keep These Two Tigers Apart”, in The New York Times (Trilobites…. From the entry Sikhote-Alin
  • Called someone out in a cub chat for taking pics of diapers in public at cons and showing them to non-cubs for a laugh.2019 April 23, @OtterPopsAB, Twitter. From the entry diaperfur
  • Promising in her Inaugural Address to protect the state like a "nanook defending her cub," she has continued to play down social issues as governor.2008, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 172, page 102. From the entry nanook
  • Mothers are like momma bears, protecting their cubs, often refusing to see when their children have their hands in the honey jar.1995, Robert Andrews, “‘Train Up a Child’”, in The Family: God’s Weapon for Victory, Mukilteo, Wash.: WinePress Publishing, →ISBN, part 6…. From the entry momma bear
  • Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236. From the entry ottery
  • Why, you unweaned cub, he believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don't believe in it at all.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation. From the entry mummery
  • Watch as a trio of mischievous baby black bears in Vernon Township, New Jersey, were chased off by a protective dog after one curious cub climbed a second-floor balcony.2021 May 24, “Cute bear cub scared off by family dog”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry curiosity killed the cat
  • When you consider that an average sett can contain up to 15 animals, parents and cubs, it is easy to imagine the scale of suffering involved.2006, David Kavanagh, A Country Pillow Book, page 69. From the entry sett
  • Of course shi’s still only a cub yet, but if shi grows up to look anything like the your Jaguar-Vixen, shi’s going to be a heartbreaker!1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet. From the entry shi
  • Only to discover when he struck a light, that what he had got was a momma grizzly and her four cubs: and momma, cornered, was strictly on the warpath.1957, Austin Russell, “Charlie and Sundry Survivors from a Gaudier Day”, in C. M. R.: Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Artist: A Biography, New…. From the entry momma grizzly
  • About six months later, Chuck Gibbs, another avid amateur photographer and ursophile, approached too close to a sow grizzly and her three cubs in Glacier National Park and was killed.1993, Martha Hill, The Art of Photographing Nature, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN. From the entry ursophile

Meaning of cub

  1. noun The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.
  2. noun A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
  3. noun A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".

Full definition of cub

Questions about cub in a sentence

How do you use cub in a sentence?
Cub is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.”
What is a short sentence with cub?
“Mother bears are famously protective of their cubs.”
What does cub mean?
Cub means the young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.

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