How to Use hellbender in a Sentence

hellbender

noun

• At the time, the future didn't look very good for hellbenders.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
• This creek is one of the country’s last hellbender strongholds.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• If the hellbender can survive there, then many other species will too.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 4 July 2021
• Legend has it that the name hellbender came from the salamander’s looks.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2023
• With the latest release, 27 of those hellbenders are back home.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
• The challenge that morning was that hellbenders look exactly like rocks.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• Because the aquatic salamanders breathe through their skin, hellbenders can't survive in dirty water.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 30 Mar. 2018
• Male hellbender salamanders usually make doting dads, guarding eggs and shaking them free of silt.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
• Photographer David Herasimtschuk says this image may be the first of a hellbender attempting to eat a snake.
  — National Geographic, 26 Dec. 2019
• The eastern hellbender is the largest salamander in North America, reaching two feet or more in length.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• There’s arguably no better example of the wonder in Appalachia than hellbenders.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• Meanwhile, the hellbender salamander can reach 29 inches long.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2025
• In the short term, conservationists could keep the numbers up by rearing hellbender larvae for release and avoiding this danger at the nest.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
• Once common, hellbenders have disappeared through much of their range because of declining water quality.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 30 Mar. 2018
• Even today, the genetic makeup of hellbenders is constantly changing.
  — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
• Advocates hope the protections will spur broader efforts to restore water quality across the hellbender's range.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
• The hellbender, for example, is a small salamander now found only in the state’s Blue River watershed.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2021
• Land management techniques like these can keep excess nutrient pollution from reaching the aquatic habitats hellbenders rely on to stay clean.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 12 Nov. 2025
• More than 2,000 hellbenders have been raised in this program and released into the wild since 2012, according to the post.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
• Because of their scarcity, hellbenders have legal protection in North Carolina.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 30 Mar. 2018
• But giant salamanders like hellbenders don’t undergo a full metamorphosis.
  — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
• The event's name refers to the eastern hellbenders, North America's largest salamander species, which are native to the Ohio River.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 24 July 2024
• Their relatives, the hellbender and the Chinese giant salamander, have similar mating systems.
  — Mary Bates, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2014
• Changes to the hellbenders' environment may have turned this once beneficial adaptation into a harmful evolutionary trap, Klug says.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
• Read Next Missouri Endangered hellbender dad found fathering eggs in Missouri river.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
• Or the hellbender, suggested by Christine Dell’Amore, an editor on the Animals team.
  — Jeff Kerby, National Geographic, 14 May 2020
• The department is also monitoring the derailment's impact on hellbender salamanders, the state's largest species of amphibian, that is also endangered.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The program proved to be a success in 2023 when Indiana researchers found a larval hellbender in the wild, showing that the species can once more successfully procreate in the wild.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 12 Nov. 2025
• Many of the same transposons were present in both the plethodontids and hellbender, which suggested that the parasites had first multiplied out of control in the ancestor of all living salamanders, more than 200 million years ago.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• In 2010, the Center petitioned for federal protections for eastern hellbenders.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024