How to Use manatee in a Sentence

manatee

noun
Definition of manateenext
  • In one case, a manatee died from eating a large amount of plastic shopping bags.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Run, walk or bike your favorite course near home and get a manatee T-shirt, medal, and race bib.
    — Mary Lou Cruz, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Run, walk or bike your favorite course near home and receive a manatee T-shirt, medal, and race bib.
    — Mary Lou Cruz, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The video shows the manatee grazing while calmly swimming around Hathaway’s yard.
    — Amber Randall, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But not all scientists were ready to accept the idea that Spinosaurus, unlike any other dinosaur, lived like a manatee.
    — National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • One girl’s missionary is another girl’s anxious manatee.
    — Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Even just chasing a manatee while it’s swimming is considered harassment, so imagine scraping something into one’s back.
    — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2021
  • And competition for food and space could displace otters, West Indian manatees, capybaras and turtles.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • The video shows the manatee adorably putting one flipper on the board and hanging out on the edge.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • This time the team made a manatee using rat heart cells.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The rash of manatee deaths has so far been attributed to two things.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Middle-aged in his mid 30s, he’s had a crazy life and may be the world’s most famous manatee.
    — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
  • When the team arrived at the marina, the manatee was gone.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The five-year average of manatee deaths in that time frame is 481.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • Graham and Buffett were chatting backstage when the singer brought up the plight of the manatee.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Stubby has helped dozens of young manatees during her two decades at the zoo.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
  • And, along the way, there is always a chance for a dolphin or manatee sighting.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Watercraft injuries remain the leading cause of manatee mortality.
    — Fox 35 News Staff, FOX 35 Orlando, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Boat strikes are also a major cause of manatee deaths, killing at least 63 this year.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 July 2021
  • Both are well above the five-year average of 287 manatee deaths in the time period.
    — Curt Anderson, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Pineapples, manatees, reefs so thick with fish that boats could barely row to shore.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • More than half the manatee deaths this year occurred in the five counties the lagoon borders, state data shows.
    — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • Officials want to avoid a repeat of last winter, when the manatee death toll climbed sharply.
    — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The video, from July 4, captured one of her sons floating on a surfboard in Fort Pierce as the manatee swam toward him.
    — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2022
  • The infant manatees had to be bottle-fed every four hours.
    — Jason Gulley Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • An oasis of wildlife, look out for dolphins, manatees, sting rays, turtles, and more.
    — Kara Franker, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
  • This appears to me, at this stage of our knowledge, as a kind of peaceful giant, a bit like a super-sized manatee.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Columbus had in fact claimed to have seen mermaids in the Caribbean, now believed to have been manatees.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • And when seagrasses die, gone is the manatee's favorite food source.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 May 2021
  • On the side of the park opposite the Atlantic Ocean, explore the estuarine tidal marsh where dolphins, manatees, sea turtles, fish, crabs and marsh birds have been spotted.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2024

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