How to Use species in a Sentence

species

1 of 2 noun
  • All European domestic cattle belong to the same species.
  • There are approximately 8,000 species of ants.
  • The plain species can get to be eight feet tall and wide.
    oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
  • One of the most at-risk species is the little brown bat.
    Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The species can weigh more than 200 pounds and grow to more than 6 feet in length.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2022
  • To learn more about this species, go to the zoo's website.
    Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2021
  • This is one of the more common bat species in the county.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Will one form of the virus hop from species like fig to dahlia to tomato?
    oregonlive, 11 July 2020
  • The roster varies based on the time of year, species, gender and age.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Here is a species-by-species list with the top spots for sightings.
    Maria Finn, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • They are made up of many species of corals shaped like fans and tubes and trees.
    Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Much of what defines us as a species is all in our heads.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
  • This species, which draws its moisture from the air, has no leaves.
    Mac Stone, National Geographic, 25 Oct. 2019
  • In most species, there is heavy traffic into and out of the nest.
    Michael Schulson, Wired, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Both are home to red-legged frogs, a species of concern.
    Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
  • For decades, agencies have been working to keep the species alive.
    Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Climate change is the number one threat to us as a species.
    Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2017
  • In places, these were the only species of fish in abundance.
    John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Each species of shark is unique and has its own way of living.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There are several bridges in the Phoenix area that have that species.
    Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The work has arguably helped lots of species more than pheasants.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2022
  • How did gray wolves get on the endangered species list?
    Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
  • Deer Park shutouts have joined the endangered species list.
    Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2019
  • No females of this species have yet to be found, Godwin said.
    Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • There are 37 bare root species to choose from, Roskilly said.
    Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Most pine tree species come from distant places where the soil is acid and rocky or sandy rather than clay.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Dec. 2021
  • But our species is not the sole measure of a continent’s worth.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Those stems are all marked, mapped and identified to species.
    Anne Showalter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Like most anglers in those parts, for him, one species of fish is king: the rainbow trout.
    CBS News, 19 June 2018
  • What better way to honor a rare species with such unique skill?
    Jake Fischer, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
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species

2 of 2 adjective
  • And that gives the researchers a chance to avoid one of the bigger challenges in cross-species sleep studies.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Researchers said not all viruses will spread to humans or become pandemics the scale of the coronavirus but the number of cross-species viruses increases the risk of spread to humans.
    Drew Costley, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Exactly why and how these inter-species kill rates balance out remains to be discovered.
    CBS News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The money comes from gambling at Texas horse tracks, which are required by state law to pay 5.5 percent of the interstate cross-species earnings to the Texas Greyhound Association, according to the appeal.
    Emma Collins, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The first Twilight novel—in which a small-town high school became the backdrop of a lusty inter-species love story—recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 21 June 2021
  • Where their impact may have far wider implications is in making cross-species organ donation go mainstream.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Zaleski introduced us to another cross-species couple: a donkey, Jethro, and a very kissable llama named Lorenzo.
    CBS News, 3 July 2022
  • According to officials, this type of cross-species infection is uncommon.
    Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
  • This is a call for cross-species solidarity and to consider veganism alongside other social justice movements on the left.
    Longreads, 5 May 2022
  • To curb this cross-species disease transfer, the International Union for Conservation of Nature issued a set of guidelines in 2015 for scientists, tourists and other people who might encounter great apes.
    New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Foregrounding inter-species anxiety is certainly a new Middle-Earth take.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Now, new research finds that these maestros of impersonation sometimes reproduce the sounds of an entire multi-species flock while courting females and during mating, reports Jake Buehler for Science News.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Her latest focus is on cross-species similarities in female health, a field that has long been underfunded, understudied and misunderstood.
    Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Genes are typically transmitted vertically, from parents to offspring, and don’t involve inter-species crossover.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Inter-species jumps of viruses make scientists nervous — as do suggestions of potentially significant mutations that result from those jumps.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Studies document how these tools measure different cellular properties, while a flagship paper describes the integration of data from 11 companion papers, to produce a cross-species atlas of cell-types.
    Simon Makin, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Imagining such fabulous cross-species chimeras as these, and other mythological creatures such as centaurs, was a prescient ancient anticipation of the potential genetic future of humankind.
    Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • It will be added to the county’s future East County multi-species conservation plan area, part of a regional program launched in 1998 to manage conservation, recreation and agriculture while carving out areas designated for development.
    Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The characters populating this book, therefore, make up a diverse, cross-species cast—one imperfectly understood yet closely interrelated.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Movable eyes, however, have evolved only in a limited number of lineages—an adaptation notably absent in insects and most terrestrial arthropods—restricting cross-species comparisons.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • No one had considered such cross-species vulnerability because human infections with monkeypox had not previously been detected outside of West and Central Africa.
    Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Another influential factor in cross-species transmission is probably proximity.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2020
  • And that gives the researchers a chance to avoid one of the bigger challenges in cross-species sleep studies.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Researchers said not all viruses will spread to humans or become pandemics the scale of the coronavirus but the number of cross-species viruses increases the risk of spread to humans.
    Drew Costley, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Exactly why and how these inter-species kill rates balance out remains to be discovered.
    CBS News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The money comes from gambling at Texas horse tracks, which are required by state law to pay 5.5 percent of the interstate cross-species earnings to the Texas Greyhound Association, according to the appeal.
    Emma Collins, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The first Twilight novel—in which a small-town high school became the backdrop of a lusty inter-species love story—recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 21 June 2021
  • Where their impact may have far wider implications is in making cross-species organ donation go mainstream.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Zaleski introduced us to another cross-species couple: a donkey, Jethro, and a very kissable llama named Lorenzo.
    CBS News, 3 July 2022
  • According to officials, this type of cross-species infection is uncommon.
    Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022

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