1
: of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae)
2
: suggesting or characteristic of a bear
a lumbering ursine gait
Examples of ursine in a Sentence
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Fairfax has become one of the nation’s top beaver evangelists, gaining fans with her stop-motion animation video showing how beaver wetlands can slow the intensity of wildfire, and for her concept of Smokey the Beaver as a counterpart to the Fire Service’s ursine poster child for fire suppression.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
Advertisement Searles set out to reteach the bears some boundaries using a combination of non-lethal methods — sometimes a gentle word, sometimes a sting to the hindquarters with rubber buckshot — that have netted ursine attention and respect.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Now, ursine primacy is on display on the cover of the official visitor guide for the archipelago: a photo of a mother bear, her feet planted in a muddy riverbank, water droplets clinging to her fur, fish blood smearing her nose.
—WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
The great favourite of the last reign, Boris Berezovsky, a Jewish mathematician charmed the ursine, cantankerous, crapulous President Boris Yeltsin and vitally his influential daughter Tatiana, with his nervy worldly dynamic style, made billions from owning Sibneft and Aeroflot.
—Time, 24 Aug. 2023
Wildlife officials, hunting her ursine assailant, trapped and killed at least four bears.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
This short ursine tale began late Sunday afternoon, when police got a call about a black bear on Jutras Street, off Newport Avenue.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
Churchill, set on the western side of Canada’s Hudson Bay, is one of the few places in the world with a human population that routinely interacts with polar bears (the town has 1,050 year-round human inhabitants, and roughly 1,200 ursine visitors that arrive during peak season in the late summer).
—Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
Maybe this ursine usurper does.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
Advertisement Searles set out to reteach the bears some boundaries using a combination of non-lethal methods — sometimes a gentle word, sometimes a sting to the hindquarters with rubber buckshot — that have netted ursine attention and respect.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Now, ursine primacy is on display on the cover of the official visitor guide for the archipelago: a photo of a mother bear, her feet planted in a muddy riverbank, water droplets clinging to her fur, fish blood smearing her nose.
—WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
The great favourite of the last reign, Boris Berezovsky, a Jewish mathematician charmed the ursine, cantankerous, crapulous President Boris Yeltsin and vitally his influential daughter Tatiana, with his nervy worldly dynamic style, made billions from owning Sibneft and Aeroflot.
—Time, 24 Aug. 2023
Wildlife officials, hunting her ursine assailant, trapped and killed at least four bears.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
This short ursine tale began late Sunday afternoon, when police got a call about a black bear on Jutras Street, off Newport Avenue.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
Churchill, set on the western side of Canada’s Hudson Bay, is one of the few places in the world with a human population that routinely interacts with polar bears (the town has 1,050 year-round human inhabitants, and roughly 1,200 ursine visitors that arrive during peak season in the late summer).
—Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
Maybe this ursine usurper does.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
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“Ursine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ursine. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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