How to Use brown bear in a Sentence

brown bear

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  • The brown bear was with a cub at the time of the attack.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • And, oh yeah, a brown bear is on the loose near a venue.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
  • And then, a brown bear charged him — three times, Battle said.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Deer and bison will be preyed on by grey wolves and brown bears.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Not just black bear and brown bear, but squirrel, bird.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • An Alaskan brown bear is the latest creature to fall prey to spam bots.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In Spain, a film crew captured footage of a rare brown bear, spotted for the first time in more than 150 years.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The box design, with its cheery brown bear chefs, is worth framing.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • The men reported seeing the brown bear, thought to be female, and its cub on each side of the road.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
  • Other than snow leopards, the park is home to the Tibetan wolf, Eurasian brown bear ,and blue sheep.
    — Andrea Pinto, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Over the past decade only four people have been killed by an Alaskan brown bear.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2020
  • Two days later, a third brown bear was shot in Eagleridge for the same reason.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
  • So does the diet of fish eaten by the large brown bears of southern Alaska.
    — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Read: What will happen to these brown bears if this Alaska mine goes through?
    — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Below, dozens of brown bears dug clams, ate sedge grass and loped across tidal flats, ready for chum salmon to arrive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • On Monday, August 21, a brown bear attacked a hunter in the Swedish town of Ljusdal.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Meat from the black bears and some of the brown bears was also donated to local villages.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • The city’s emblem is a bear, and back then there was still a mumbly old brown bear in an actual pit in the city center.
    — Susanna Forrest, Longreads, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Stepan is 26 years old, elderly for a brown bear, and can hardly walk.
    — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said a den with two brown bear cubs was found nearby.
    — CBS News, 13 May 2022
  • The mauling came less than one week after a brown bear killed a 44-year-old hiker on a trail at the end of Hiland Road.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
  • Mainland grizzlies can reach 8 feet tall and 800 pounds, with coastal brown bears growing to twice that weight.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 29 Nov. 2023
  • In a brown bear encounter, the safest means of action is to lay flat on your stomach and place your hands behind your neck.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Thousands tune in to watch an Alaskan brown bear named Otis on live webcam.
    — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Ursus arctos marsicanus is one of the rarest types of brown bear around.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • His roars alongside Izzy, another brown bear at the zoo, could be heard in the morning as the two played loudly.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2021
  • In other words, all grizzly bears are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
  • According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, brown bears can weigh up to 1,500 pounds.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 9 May 2023
  • Japan is home to many species of wild animals, including both black and brown bears.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Grizzlies, which are a type of brown bear, also like to spend their days turning over rocks in search of army cutworm moths.
    — Jason Bittel, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2019

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