How to Use marsupial in a Sentence

marsupial

1 of 2 noun
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  • This marsupial ate both meat and plants, and spent part of its days up in the trees.
    — Sean Greene, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • But the Maremma is here to protect the marsupial, not hunt it.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • One opossum found out the hard way that marsupials and dance halls don't mix.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • But this marsupial has places to be and pests to devour.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • For those who happen to be fans of both Bruno Mars and marsupials, prepare for your hearts to melt.
    — Abby Jones, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In New South Wales, around 2,000 of the marsupials have died, according to News.com.au.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The effort is the latest step to allow the tiny marsupial to rebound.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The southern marsupial mole was found to have fluorescent fur, but the species is blind, writes the Guardian.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Tuesday marked the first time Eastern quolls, a species of small Australian marsupial, have been returned to the wild.
    — National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2018
  • One pooch found antechinus species in the Scenic Rim, an area that hadn't seen the marsupial since the late 1980s, Baker says.
    — Kelly Murray, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • Zuck's notebooks are open and marsupials aren't copin', but first: a cartoon about smart cars.
    — Alex Baker-Whitcomb, Wired, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The dusky pademelon is a marsupial found on the islands around Indonesia and on New Guinea.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022
  • This one is wind and waterproof, with a large marsupial-like pocket and a hood.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Then sales surged Gutierrez said the CHP had received similar calls about a marsupial in the area in years past.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • While the goal was to resurrect the extinct marsupial, the project ended a few years later.
    — Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2015
  • More than 350 of the marsupials are feared to have been killed by the fires, according to animal experts.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Nadia Tugwell, with her coat in hand, teamed up with a stranger clutching a blanket in a bid to capture the marsupial.
    — Author: Rod McGuirk, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Like all marsupials, possums have pouches and give birth to live young.
    — National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The name suggests the image of an overgrown marsupial that hasn’t left its mother’s pouch.
    — NBC News, 30 May 2021
  • The baby raptor may have fed on a thumb-size marsupial called Unnuakomys or the tiny mammal Cimolodon, the study said.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 July 2020
  • Many view the marsupials as pests which destroy pasture and cause crashes by hopping in front of cars.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Standing around three feet high, the modern koala is roughly 25 pounds of claws and teeth, tufty ears and fluffy white marsupial tummy.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Yes, a marsupial from down under was hopping around a Texas city.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2021
  • The year 2012 is featured, which is the year his son was born; and the toy robot tucked into the pouch of a marsupial-like critter is a nod to the boy pretending to be a robot.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • One of the Mansfields' neighbors, Mike Vicars, also caught video of the marsupials.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 5 May 2018
  • Researchers have shed new light on the fossil remains of a huge bear-sized marsupial that once roamed Australia.
    — Fox News, 26 June 2020
  • Implant the embryo into a female marsupial such as a quoll, and watch the quoll give birth to a thylacine baby.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • The marsupial is a land animal normally at home in the Australian bush and forests.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Numbats—small, endangered marsupials that live in Australia—are at risk of overheating amid global warming, a new study finds.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • These carnivorous marsupials, which resemble a mousy shrew, have just three weeks to mate with as many females as possible.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
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marsupial

2 of 2 adjective
  • The birds didn't have teeth and the bite marks from marsupial teeth don't match those on the bone.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The dogs sniff for koala fur or the marsupial’s feces to locate them.
    — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
  • About 23 million years ago in Australia, a marsupial lion lived in the open forest and spent part of its life in trees.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2018
  • Some South and Central American frogs in the Gastrotheca genus, like the horned marsupial frog, brood their eggs in a pouch under the skin on mom’s back.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2017
  • The jacket was a smothering embrace, like a marsupial pouch I was born into and had no desire to crawl out of.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2017
  • The tiger, or thylacine, was the world’s largest marsupial carnivore.
    — Rob Taylor, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • But the Tasmanian tiger, the marsupial lion and Megalania (a 1,300-pound lizard) are gone.
    — Erin Biba, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The eastern quoll, a cat-sized marsupial with pointy ears and speckled fur, was once found throughout south-eastern Australia.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • Throwing away the original name my dad had bequeathed me over a marsupial joke.
    — Jodie Chan, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But Australian dung beetles were used to recycling marsupial dung and could not tackle the cow chips.
    — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • Female kangaroos rarely have twins, but marsupial words can have two or even three joeys.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2021
  • According to the Florida zoo, the marsupial baby emerged from its mother’s pouch for the first time this week, offering keepers and guests their first peek at the first koala joey to be born at the zoo.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 19 June 2019
  • Outdoors, the renderings show that a metal roof with light fixtures will go where Lakefront had an old tent under the marsupial Holton Street Bridge.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The Tasmanian tiger, known to science as the thylacine, was the only member of its genus of marsupial carnivores to live to modern times.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012
  • The beetles had made a significant ecological leap from the hard, dry nuggets of marsupial dung to which they were adapted.
    — Richard Jones, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The lab plans to develop a biobank of frozen marsupial cells so individuals could be cloned and released.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • But fair warning — in some cases, these packs can make their wearers look like marsupial moms carrying their little joeys to term.
    — Julie Ma, The Cut, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The practice isn’t unheard of: 19 marsupial species in the family Dasyuridae, which includes quolls, are semelparous.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Toogie, an 18-year-old sulcata tortoise, will be on hand too, as will Ham the fainting goat and a host of other mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and even a marsupial or two.
    — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 5 June 2017
  • The show follows the story of three spunky marsupial siblings as their adventures lead them to new heights and new opportunities for learning.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • And unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom, this marsupial poops cubes.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
  • The Tasmanian devil is the world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore and typically lives for up to six years in the wild.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 May 2021
  • Specialists working on the island say the fires have killed thousands of koalas and kangaroos, and also have raised questions about whether any members of a mouse-like marsupial species that carries its young in a pouch have survived.
    — Nick Perry, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Around 23 million years ago, during the late Oligocene era, this marsupial lion roamed in northwestern Queensland, Australia.
    — Sarah Gray, Fortune, 23 May 2018
  • When a deputy arrived at the scene there was indeed a marsupial wandering around rural Palmetto State County.
    — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • Pask claims the marsupial species could potentially be recreated using gene editing technology and could be reintroduced to the wild within in the next decade.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But now, new research suggests that the marsupial sabertooth, Thylacosmilus atrox, was more likely a scavenger than a death-dealing predator.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • To make matters worse, humans have caused the extinction of several of the kangaroo's natural predators, such as the thylacine—a marsupial resembling a dog.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The animal is the Leadbeater’s possum, an adorable little marsupial native to the acacia forests of central Victoria in Australia.
    — National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But while early evidence for it goes back to a marsupial fossil that’s upwards of 3 million years old, finding hints of it — or a similar infection — nearly 250 million years ago is a surprise.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2018

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