How to Use herbivore in a Sentence

herbivore

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  • And of course the Warlock is going to be the herbivore of the group.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The fact that it’s getting eaten isn’t the fault of the herbivores.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • At the base are six types of plants whose seeds nourished herbivores.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
  • If girls are sugar and spice, does that equate them to herbivores, to the boy-snips-and-snails of omnivores?
    — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • All told, these were some of the most successful herbivores on the planet, Sereno says.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Those factors alone helped kill off plants, then the herbivores, and then the carnivores that fed on them.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • To keep the herbivore munching to a minimum, a 7-foot high deer fence will surround the space.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2021
  • When large herbivores got trapped in the goo, carnivores would follow them in and get stuck as well.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
  • It is derived from plants and is emitted when herbivores move in to attacks and eat them.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The triceratops, which grew to about 6 feet tall, was a herbivore that likely fed on sycamore leaves and flowery plants, Bastien said.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
  • When Allosaurus eats Allosaurus Many of the bones with bite marks come from Apatosaurus, a long-necked herbivore.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2020
  • One indication the footprint came from an herbivore like Prosauropod was the shape of the feet, Romilio said.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • But only in so much as both were long-necked herbivores grazers.
    — Maggie Hyde, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Some poor herbivore got stuck in mud, died, and its rotten stink drew scores of Allosaurus here, which became trapped in turn.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 21 June 2017
  • This means any large herbivores that did survive the impact are beginning to starve to death.
    — Fox News, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Much like other large dinosaurs, the Diplodocus achieved its extreme size as an herbivore.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Fostoria was an herbivore that stood on its hind legs and belonged to the same group of dinosaurs as iguanodons.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • And that seemed a little weird, given that these animals were thought to be strict herbivores.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The grandest migration on Earth isn’t the journey of some herbivore in Africa or a bird in the sky, but the vertical movement of whole ecosystems in the open ocean.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 June 2021
  • Hadrosaurids were the most common types of herbivores towards the end of Mesozoic Era and all had similar looking snouts.
    — Fox News, 16 July 2019
  • Mostly nocturnal, tapirs are herbivores who eat up to 75 pounds of leaves, plants and fruit daily.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • In most cases, those abundant food sources are large herbivores.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The huge herbivore roamed what’s now the western United States between about 38 million and 56 million years ago.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Scientists used to think this armor helped the huge herbivores avoid cross-species breeding.
    — Katherine Hignett, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The scientists believe that the cooling of the climate and the loss of certain herbivore species contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 July 2021
  • Today, most researchers believe the bird was a herbivore, munching mostly on tough-skinned fruits and seed pods.
    — National Geographic, 15 May 2018
  • Wild herbivores also help reduce the spread of wildfires in other ways.
    — Curtis Abraham, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
  • First came the herbivores: elephants, impalas, buffaloes, and more.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The eradication policy was introduced in 2000 and calls for the culling of two mountain-dwelling herbivores, the plateau pika and the zokor.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 May 2023
  • Nodosaurs were herbivores who walked on four legs and had armor plates and spines that grew in the skin of the neck, back, legs and tail, the Smithsonian Institution said.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017

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