How to Use leopard seal in a Sentence

leopard seal

noun

• No one is certain why marine mammals like whales, sea cows and leopard seals are so big.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2018
• Like clockwork, the leopard seal arrived in the lagoon just before low tide.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
• What leopard seals eat varies depending on the time of year and prey availability.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• For instance, leopard seals make a living hunting down penguins and even other seals.
  — National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
• One tense scene that forced Gregory and his crew to think quick on their feet was an encounter with a leopard seal in the third episode.
  — Matt Minton, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
• Amos Nachoum was awarded the grand prize for his image of a leopard seal hunting a penguin.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
• Without many other fledglings around, the young penguins may be more likely to become a meal for a hungry leopard seal.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• Penguins constitute about a quarter of the leopard seal’s diet throughout the year.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Ou was rendered breathless by its smiling leopard seals and flourishing penguin colonies.
  — Evelyn Wang, vanityfair.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• The young gentoo penguin in the picture jumped into the lagoon to play during low tide — and got ambushed by the leopard seal.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• These sound combos placed leopard seals curiously alongside us.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
• The leopard seal is a semi-aquatic mammal and an apex predator in Antarctica.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2022
• Each breeding season, male leopard seals dive beneath the ice and repeat long, solitary sequences of five distinct call types for hours on end.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
• Photographer Paul Nicklen is still awestruck by his face time with a leopard seal in 2006.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• In the ocean, though, penguins most contend with leopard seals, formidable hunters that specialize in warm-blooded prey.
  — National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2020
• Weighing in at over 1,200 pounds, a leopard seal looks like the prehistoric marine species that once took on the dinosaurs.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• Young Gentoo penguins only enter the water at low tide, so fierce predators like the leopard seal use it to their advantage.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
• The leopard seal, sometimes referred to as a sea leopard, is the second-largest species of seal in the Antarctic, behind the southern elephant seal.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
• For many species, scientists are only beginning to recognize the role of sound in their survival, including leopard seals.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
• The penguin must leave its home turf and venture into unfamiliar waters to face the peril of leopard seals that have jaws big enough to swallow a basketball.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• Though Australians may be used to seeing other types of seals on their coasts – fur seals, leopard seals – Neil’s species is much less common, adding to his appeal.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
• National Geographic Critter Cams like the ones seen above also show how leopard seals prey on fur seal pups and steal food.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Though leopard seals are widespread and abundant, overfishing, retreating sea ice and warming waters mean that krill and penguins, their main food sources, are both in decline.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• That matters for leopard seals because they're considered ice-obligate animals.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
• Nachoum explains in a statement that just before the low tide arrived, a ravenous leopard seal scanned the shallows for its unsuspecting dinner to arrive.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
• Getting the perfect shot of a lounging leopard seal or an emperor penguin posing in Antarctica is a photographer’s dream come true.
  — Kristen E. Pope, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2026
• Other days involved watching for whales, exploring with naturalist guides, searching for the elusive leopard seal, and hiking to see different penguin species.
  — Sarah Groen, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
• See humpback whales, leopard seals, and gentoo, Adélie, and chinstrap penguins, or watch icebergs float by and go hiking through Antarctica's untouched landscape.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• Curiously, though, there have also been reports of leopard seals behaving in a friendly manner towards people—apparently trying to present gifts, in the form of prey, to divers.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• My afternoons were filled with kayaking with humpback whales, zipping around in a zodiac raft to spot leopard seals, snowshoeing around glistening bays, and watching penguins slide down the soft snow on their bellies.
  — Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025