How to Use bear in a Sentence
- The bears outnumbered the bulls on Wall Street today.
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Bears fans could not have cared less.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
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Duane’s eyes shot back to the bear.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Sacbee.com, 25 Feb. 2026
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 10 Mar. 2026
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 13 Sep. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
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Don’t let kids run away from the bear.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
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Grab the bear and tell him to get out?
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
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But this week is gonna be a bear.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026
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The man had no choice but to shoot the bear.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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Don't run and don't turn away from the bear.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
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Don't run and don't turn away from the bear.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 13 May 2026
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At one point, a trap even caught the wrong bear.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
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The bull case may be stronger than the bear one.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Duane was bent over his own deer when the bear roared.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
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Bears can sprint up to 35 miles per hour.
—Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
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Bill was ready when the bear’s head bobbed up the third time.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
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Daniels said the bear weighed about 70 pounds.
—Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2025
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The bear is likely to do the same.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
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The bear is likely to do the same.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 13 May 2026
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The small size of the bear surprised me.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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Again the bear broke every red light.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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When the bear didn’t even slow, Steve was alarmed.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
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Learn how to safely scare a bear.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
- Who will bear the blame for this tragedy?
- The company agreed to bear the costs.
- The criminals must bear full responsibility for the deaths of these innocent people.
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All but one were born in Haiti.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
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Gere was 70 years old when he was born.
—Sari Hitchins, Parents, 7 Nov. 2025
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Tommy is the first born of the twins.
—Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
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But our cosmos was born dust-free.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
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And just like that — with the flick of a wrist — punk was born.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
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He was born that way, after all.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2026
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And, of course, our son being born.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
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The next day, Moo Deng was born.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
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Todd has known them since before they were born.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2026
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Some still bore gunshot wounds.
—ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
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Blevins was born and raised in Tustin, Calif.
—Mark Curriden, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026
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Merchants — new and old — bear the street name on stores.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
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Man is born of a woman, who is with you through your birth.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Hale was born and raised in Stockton.
—Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 27 May 2026
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Their son was born that August.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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How sweet this life—if Fortune bears no grudge.
—Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
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Baldwin was 64 years old when she was born.
—Sari Hitchins, Parents, 7 Nov. 2025
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The secret became too much to bear for the duo.
—Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
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The human toll is something none of us can bear.
—Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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His fame was made; a new industry was born.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
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In a sense, he was born with a metaphoric crown on his head.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
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Their efforts soon bore strange and ruinous fruit.
—Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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Viggiano is a triplet, one of four girls born within a year.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 13 May 2026
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Bree comes bearing gifts for her parents.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
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Everything about him screams of a boy who was born to play the game.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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Most were born in the United States.
—Hosffman Ospino, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
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But son David is born with a short arm and a hand with four fingers.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
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