How to Use ocelot in a Sentence

ocelot

noun
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  • The jaguars and ocelots wait until the macaws come down to the clay.
    — Shaena Montanari, National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The ocelot proved unruly and was shipped out to the Portland Zoo.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Within a month, an ocelot was photographed in a river canyon on the ranch.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Palm Beach Zoo remains home to an ocelot named Jade, who arrived in 2010.
    — Jayda Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2017
  • In the basement is the nightclub Babou, named for artist Salvador Dalí's capricious pet ocelot.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • Check out a cabaret show in Kenner, an art installation and a tiny ocelot at the Audubon Zoo.
    — Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • In Colombia, poachers have been killing more jaguars, pumas, and ocelots, Newsweek reports.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Visit the giraffes, elephants and flamingos, and maybe get a peek at a baby ocelot.
    — Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Blakely the Australian shepherd has cared for cheetahs, tigers, ocelots and more!
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The filmmakers get remarkably close to the animals — not just to the ocelot but the birds and reptiles that the young cat must learn to trap in order to live in the wild.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In the gulch just to my southwest, a jaguar roamed during his three-year stay in the range, and an ocelot was recently spotted bounding through this spot.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • The neighbors include sea turtles, ocelots and howler monkeys.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Getting an ocelot or a cheetah can be as easy as sending a DM or text, agreeing on a price, and setting a pick-up date.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Long, squat, flat-faced jaguarundis have a uniform coat, while small, agile ocelots sport striking coat patterns.
    — National Geographic, 6 May 2017
  • In the more than three months since the pandemic began, Araya recently told me, her project had logged only one slain ocelot.
    — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 6 July 2020
  • At least one ocelot has also been photographed traipsing through the area multiple times.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2019
  • Members of the military travelling with ocelots may board with Group 1.
    — Ann Beattie, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • In January, an ocelot was photographed in these mountains.
    — azcentral, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In the ocelot enclosure, a eucalyptus limb used as a walkway by the aging cat was wrapped in rope to provide a better grip.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This four-pack of soft plush toys comes with a creeper, yellow ocelot, bat, and skeleton—all characters of the passive and hostile mobs that populate the game.
    — Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
  • An entire row of shelves 50 feet long and 10 feet high is dedicated to the hides and mounted heads of big cats—cheetahs, tigers, jaguars, margays, ocelots, leopards.
    — National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2016
  • The ocelot endeavor is a novel approach, Marinari says.
    — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Among them are the impacts on the seventy-plus animal and plant species that the new sections of wall now endanger, including the jaguar, the ocelot, the desert bighorn sheep, and the Mexican gray wolf.
    — The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
  • On her computer, Zingheim found stunning photographs of birds, bears, ocelots and bobcats.
    — Phuong Le, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
  • Jordahl said, listing the species that traverse the border through the stream channels: antelopes, deer, coyotes, bears, bobcats, ocelots, javelina.
    — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Since 2009, five male ocelots have been documented in southern Arizona.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
  • This was the third time the ocelot attacked someone, and the city had to consider either killing the animal or sending it somewhere that it could be housed permanently, like a zoo or farm.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The animals typically feed on fruits, seeds, nuts and invertebrates, the zoo added, and their main predators are large birds of prey, jaguars, ocelots and large constrictor snakes.
    — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the wetland wildlife includes waterfowl, river otters, gators, turtles, snakes, ocelots, foxes, frogs and many other things.
    — Daniela Sternitzky-Di Napoli, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
  • While the United States had the largest number (1,034) of live animal advertisements, Russia had the most varied list of species including two types of tigers, a crocodile, an ocelot and a bonobo.
    — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2008

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