How to Use pangolin in a Sentence

pangolin

noun
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  • Up to a third of the pangolin species may have played host to the virus.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 30 May 2020
  • Just as long as the jets don’t drive the pangolins away.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The loot also contained a half of a ton of pangolin scales.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Four of the 101 pangolins seized from the fishing boat later died.
    — Rachael Bale, National Geographic, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In the past decade, there have been well over one million pangolins killed to feed this demand.
    — Elly Pepper, Scientific American Blog Network, 5 June 2017
  • There are three different species of anteater: the aardvark, the giant anteater and the pangolin.
    — Zoe Sayler, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
  • He and his grad students are now working on a DNA map of pangolin poop.
    — Kate Brooks, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • One of the world’s most trafficked animals is the pangolin — for its meat and its scales, which are used for medicine.
    — Diane Daniel, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Lotter has said that Fodie was involved in the shipment of six tons of pangolin scales.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Maybe a human did start the pandemic, not a wild bat or a caged pangolin.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • But that prompted some ivory poachers to turn to pangolins.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • This time around, the source of illness may have been pangolins or bats, instead of marmots.
    — Parag Khanna, Wired, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The pangolin, for example, evolved scales made of keratin all over its body — the scales clock in at up to a third of the mammal's body mass.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Also known as scaly anteaters, the world’s eight species of pangolins are split evenly between Africa and Asia.
    — Rachel Nuwer, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2016
  • Officials have now hauled in 37.5 tons of pangolin scales since April, the agency said.
    — Fox News, 23 July 2019
  • A U.N. wildlife conference last year approved a ban on trade in all eight species of Asian and African pangolins.
    — Associated Press, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
  • There are eight species of pangolin and all of them are now threatened to extinction due to poaching.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Researchers think the virus could have gone from bats to humans via the pangolins in the Wuhan market where live animals are sold.
    — John Gage, Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Living animals tend to have tails with weapons that are made of keratin, like the quills of a porcupine or the scales of a pangolin.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The average starting price for pangolin items, most of which were listed as used, was $544.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 26 July 2019
  • Wendt said pangolin — the most trafficked mammal in the world — may be the next addition to Benny’s resume.
    — Sarah Wu, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2018
  • Some of us browse the internet for photos of baby pangolins.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The pangolin scales, worth an estimated total of $35.7 million, marked the city-state’s third such seizure this year.
    — Fox News, 23 July 2019
  • In fact, while some researchers go gaga over a cute panda or pangolin, Kwak has a thing for parasites.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
  • In the last decade, officials have seized enough remnants to account for at least 1 million pangolins.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The two animals are the parents of the first pangolin born in captivity in Europe.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
  • To a Sunda pangolin, a strip of forest that’s extremely long but just 800 meters wide might as well be no forest at all.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Although poaching is not dealt with directly in the series, pangolins are the most trafficked animals in the world and are now on the endangered species list.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But when these viruses leap into a new species—whether a pangolin or a civet or a human—the result can be severe, sometimes deadly, sickness.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Current law permits the farming of bats, pangolins and bears to make medicine from their feces, scales and bile, which drives the demand for wildlife and raises the risk of another pandemic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020

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