How to Use ruminant in a Sentence

ruminant

1 of 2 noun
  • The bacteria live in the intestines of cows, pigs and other ruminants.
    The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The proportions of carbon-13 in the fatty acids suggested that the milk had come from ruminants, such as cows, sheep, or goats.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The third vessel likely held a mixture of both ruminant and pig or human milk.
    Jillian Mock, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Some locals have doubts about bringing back the giant ruminants.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The ruminant meat can carry disease-causing sickness and has been linked to outbreaks.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • As Beano or ginger are to the human digestive system, an enzyme found in seaweed or lemongrass is to that of the ruminant.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2020
  • In 1997, the United States banned most mammalian animal parts from being ground into feed for ruminants such as cows, sheep and deer.
    Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
  • The project is looking into microbes that inhabit the stomachs of ruminants such as cattle and sheep.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Cows and other ruminants such as goats and sheep have a special stomach called a rumen that houses millions of microbes.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
  • Bluetongue virus, a ruminant virus spread by midges that was once confined to tropical areas, has reached as far as Norway.
    Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • Historically, the source of rennet was from the stomachs of ruminant mammals, such as cows.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Take bluetongue virus, a highly lethal ruminant disease that is spread by biting midges called Culicoides.
    Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • Cattle, deer, sheep, camels and giraffes, among others, are all ruminant mammals.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Peste des petits ruminants struck a lamb-fattening unit in Israel.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • If the ruminants move like wild buffalo, in dense herds, never staying in one place for too long, the land benefits from the momentary disturbance.
    Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • That starts with eating fewer cows and other ruminants—the fewer fermenting stomachs out there, the better.
    WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Their four chamber stomachs, which categorize them as a ruminant, like cattle, enable them to digest the roughage.
    Camille Sauers, Chron, 30 Sep. 2021
  • One woman spoke about the theory that feeding seaweed to ruminants could help cut down on excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The products from ruminant animals – sheep, cows and other animals with four stomachs – tend to have greater greenhouse gas emissions.
    Quora, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The bed of excrement also contained unusual levels of bile acids and fatty compounds found in the digestive tracts of horses and ruminants.
    Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • If any unlucky ruminants or humans eat the infected plants, the cycle starts again with the parasites penetrating through the small intestines and invading duct work.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
  • To look for the genes that let Santa’s helpers survive scarce food and months without daylight, researchers took advantage of a massive effort to sequence the genomes of reindeer and 43 other ruminants, including cows, sheep, and camels.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019
  • Though the analysis match couldn’t tell exactly which type of ruminant milk once filled these tiny children's cups, cattle, sheep and goat bones are found at settlement sites across prehistory.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2019
  • And the closest relative of the two viruses, which is even older, causes peste des petits ruminants, a sheep and goat disease that probably crossed to cattle more easily than to humans.
    Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The rumen is the first of four compartments found in a ruminant’s stomach, where grass is partially digested via fermentation before passing through the rest.
    National Geographic, 3 July 2019
  • Senatorial milk may be derived from all ruminants, not just cows.
    Nehemiah Markos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Young owns her own consulting business and has nearly 20 years of expertise in ruminant nutrition and research.
    Staff Reports Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Although geological processes can produce methane, without any need for life, most methane on Earth comes from microbes that live in landfill sites and in the guts of ruminants.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Buying carbon offsets for flights is nice in theory—but what would really put a dent in climate change is controlling the amount of methane released by ruminant livestock.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2022
  • High-methane foods means meat—specifically, meat from ruminants.
    Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
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ruminant

2 of 2 adjective
  • I wandered around campus all day in a ruminant mood.
  • The global demand for ruminant meat, meaning beef, sheep and goat, is expected to be even higher, at 88%.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • The results of the chemical analysis show that the bottles contained dairy fat from the milk of ruminant animals, a group that includes cows, goats, and sheep.
    Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Some trans fats occur naturally in dairy foods and meat from ruminant animals.
    Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
  • Thus began Yang’s ten-year diversion into the world of ruminant biology.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 20 June 2019
  • Beef and other ruminant meats like lamb produce much higher greenhouse gas emissions than other proteins like beans and nuts, and these emissions are major contributors to climate change.
    Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Since 1961 methane emissions from ruminant livestock, which include cows as well as sheep, buffalo and goats, have significantly increased, according to the report.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Since 1961, methane emissions from ruminant livestock, which include cows as well as sheep, buffalo, and goats, have significantly increased, according to the report.
    Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • First, there is biological methane, which comes from agriculture - particularly the belches of ruminant animals, such as cows, and from rice fields - but also from wetlands, landfills, termites and more.
    Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The country’s nearly 120 million ruminant animals, increasingly being fed a diet of grains laced with hormones and antibiotics, were concentrated into industrialized feeding operations.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • I wandered around campus all day in a ruminant mood.
  • The global demand for ruminant meat, meaning beef, sheep and goat, is expected to be even higher, at 88%.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • The results of the chemical analysis show that the bottles contained dairy fat from the milk of ruminant animals, a group that includes cows, goats, and sheep.
    Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Some trans fats occur naturally in dairy foods and meat from ruminant animals.
    Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
  • Thus began Yang’s ten-year diversion into the world of ruminant biology.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 20 June 2019
  • Beef and other ruminant meats like lamb produce much higher greenhouse gas emissions than other proteins like beans and nuts, and these emissions are major contributors to climate change.
    Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Since 1961 methane emissions from ruminant livestock, which include cows as well as sheep, buffalo and goats, have significantly increased, according to the report.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Since 1961, methane emissions from ruminant livestock, which include cows as well as sheep, buffalo, and goats, have significantly increased, according to the report.
    Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • First, there is biological methane, which comes from agriculture - particularly the belches of ruminant animals, such as cows, and from rice fields - but also from wetlands, landfills, termites and more.
    Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The country’s nearly 120 million ruminant animals, increasingly being fed a diet of grains laced with hormones and antibiotics, were concentrated into industrialized feeding operations.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020

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