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How to use tiger in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Tiger means panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. Example: “Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.”

Examples of tiger by meaning

nounA Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.

  • What you mean is that no scientist has captured one and been able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists, which is probably very good news for the tiger.2010, Barry Jonsberg, Blacky Blasts Back: On the Tail of the Tassie Tiger, Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, page 43

nounA representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.

  • The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, page 69

nounA leopard.

  • Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans, published 1976, →ISBN, page 251

nounA relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.

  • In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 709
  • Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic Tigers, as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.2009, Fabrizio Tassinari, Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 21
  • This was an important factor holding back the emergence of African tigers.2014, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge...

nounA final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.

  • . . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.1941, Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington
  • One Brooklyn military company has a “tiger” composed of a provincial expression borrowed from the farmers.2008, D. C. Beard, The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground, Field, and Forest, page 413

More sentences with tiger

  • Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.From the entry at
  • In "this tiger is a man-eater," man is an attributive noun.From the entry attributive
  • Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.From the entry pure
  • Tigers and lions share a common ancestor from a few million years ago.From the entry lion
  • There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.From the entry fewer
  • The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.From the entry description
  • Don't walk near the tiger: it'll make a meal of you.From the entry make a meal of
  • I tried to back off slowly from the tiger in my path.From the entry back off
  • As the levels of education improved, many South East Asian countries became tiger economies.From the entry tiger economy
  • Most tiger moths have broad, striped (hence the name) or spotted wings.From the entry tiger moth
  • They might just have the tiger by the tail, God help us.From the entry God help someone
  • The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.From the entry cage
  • The phone call to the police about a tiger in a tree turned out to be a hoax.From the entry hoax
  • Tiger Woods has taken over as the top golfer.From the entry take over
  • Most tiger beetle larvae tunnel in the soil.From the entry tiger beetle
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tiger stripe.From the entry tiger stripe
  • Can a tiger outrun a lion?From the entry outrun
  • We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.From the entry illusion
  • The tiger is a feline predator.From the entry feline
  • The tiger clawed off her face.From the entry claw off
  • “Having Chris Palmer part of this ambush of tigers is so exciting.2026 July 21, Madison Hahnen, “Chris Palmer Joins Triple Tigers Records/AKANDO Music”, in Music Row. From the entry ambush
  • Trump also said Russia’s economy was in big trouble and described its military as a “paper tiger”.2025 September 27, Luke Harding, “Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry paper tiger
  • Ireland shook off its reliance on the UK and became a Celtic tiger.2024 February 2, Simon Jenkins, “Northern Ireland will leave the union, and Scotland could too. True devolution is the only way to save…. From the entry Celtic Tiger
  • Echocardiography revealed severe eccentric mitral regurgitation with multiple high-intensity signals (tiger stripes) on continuous wave (CW) Doppler.2022, Najeeb Ullah Sofi, Santosh Kumar Sinha, Mohit Sachan, Ramesh Thakur, “Tiger stripes in carditis of rheumatic origin”, in Heart…. From the entry tiger stripe
  • If discussed at all, it was with platitudes about the need to save polar bears and tigers.2019 August 30, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon fires show world heading for point of no return, says UN”, in The Guardian. From the entry afterthought
  • Tiger and Phil got what they deserved on this one: Creampies in the face for everybody.2018 November 26, Thomas Boswell, “Ask Boswell: Redskins, Nationals and Washington sports”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry creampie
  • "I was never a tiger mum!" Eu says with a laugh.2012 April 8, Chin Mui Yoon, “From homemaker to head honcho”, in The Star, Malaysia. From the entry tiger mum
  • If you have tiger mother tendencies, the very worst thing you can do is visit China.2011 November 2, Anne McElvoy, “Take care, children: China's tiger cubs are on your tail”, in London Evening Standard. From the entry tiger mother
  • We were almost invisible in our tiger stripes and ghillie suits.2010, Brian Easton, Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter, page 22. From the entry gomer
  • Tiger Woods, like other golfing greats, employs a smooth, evenly paced takeaway action.2007, John Andrisani, Golfweek′s 101 Winning Golf Tips, unnumbered page. From the entry takeaway
  • "My sister calls us 'tiger mothers', because we're so protective," she says.2005 May 8, Jane Hutchinson, “Be my baby”, in Sunday Telegraph Magazine. From the entry tiger mother
  • More people in India are killed by sloth bears than by tigers.2002, Andrew M. McDearmid, Heart of a Hunter: Big Game Hunting, page 145. From the entry sloth bear

Meaning of tiger

  1. noun Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
  2. noun A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
  3. noun A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in the subfamily †Machairodontinae).

Full definition of tiger

Questions about tiger in a sentence

How do you use tiger in a sentence?
Tiger is used as a noun. For example: “Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.”
What is a short sentence with tiger?
“Can a tiger outrun a lion?”
What does tiger mean?
Tiger means panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tiger (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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