How to Use echolocation in a Sentence

echolocation

noun

• Kind of like echolocation, but with lights and a lot of math.
  — New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2024
• Bats use echolocation to hunt for their meals, and moths are often on the menu.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 21 July 2021
• The noise can drown out echolocation pings necessary to find food and mates.
  — Christina Couch, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
• Bats are skilled nocturnal hunters that use echolocation to find, track, and catch their prey.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 May 2024
• About half of all living bat species have cleft palates—a feature that may be tied to bat echolocation.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
• Some animals, like toothed whales, use echolocation to find their prey.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Dolphins and bats have their own, more complete versions of this echolocation.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• These mammals use rapid-fire echolocation, a sign of hunting, when the fishers are casting.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 2 Feb. 2023
• The whales emit rapid clicking sounds to use echolocation, rather than sight, to communicate and hunt.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Dolphins have a much wider echolocation span that exceeds 300 feet.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Many species have evolved eardrum-like structures that can detect bat echolocation, which gives them escape options.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 May 2024
• Bats do not rely only on vision and instead use echolocation to perceive the world.
  — Nitin Sanket, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
• The Clicker is forced to use its titular clicking sounds as a form of echolocation to find prey.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• For age 6 and older, learn about bats using a detector and an echolocation.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• The constant drone of boat noise interferes with the whales’ echolocation and ability to hunt.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• The animals use vocal fry in echolocation clicks for hunting.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Like orcas, belugas hunt by echolocation, enabling them to nail fish even in opaque, silty water.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2021
• Using echolocation, the hosts descend on their guests, trying to infect them with boring chitchat.
  — Nina Sharma, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
• For some, like whales and dolphins, that means using echolocation to locate possible prey.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 June 2022
• Residents hunt in large groups using echolocation, and transients hunt silently in small groups.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Idalus herois tiger moth produces clicks to jam the natural sonar of bats, which use echolocation to track down prey.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2016
• The fungus sprouts from its host’s head, like a grotesque mushroom, blinding them over time and forcing them to use echolocation to attack.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2023
• The fungus takes over victims’ nervous systems, rips through their eyes, and they’re forced to use echolocation to feast on human flesh.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
• Later the moth’s wing eye spots confuse predators, while its long tails may have evolved to confuse the radar-like echolocation of hungry bats.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The research team recorded the ultrasonic squeaks that bats use for echolocation.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Let’s find bats night hike For age 6 and older, learn about bats using a detector and an echolocation.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• With echolocation alone, 95 percent of the bats returned to their roosts within minutes.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
• Bottlenose dolphins hunt prey using their keen eyesight, hearing and a sonar system known as echolocation.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• And bats that use echolocation have an impressive, seven-octave vocal range to match their sound needs, the researchers said.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• Many predators rely on echolocation to find prey, and those echoes bounce off of shells clear as a bell, making the creature easier to find.
  — Colin Dickey, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017