How to Use mate for life in a Sentence

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• Black vultures mate for life and have one brood per year with 1 to 3 eggs.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2025
• Osprey pairs tend to mate for life and usually return to the same nest area each year.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• Geese tend to mate for life, but what happens when a grieving partner is left behind?
  — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
• Once mature, whooping cranes mate for life, laying two eggs every year.
  — Sara Sneath | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• While many parrots mate for life, fewer than half of bird species do, Kaufman said.
  — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2026
• Species that mate for life usually have offspring that, like our own, require a great deal of care.
  — Marlene Zuk, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2013
• Pigeons are said to mate for life, though this describes their behavior and not the genes of their young.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
• Sandhill cranes mate for life, and Ross noticed the corpse of one bird lying by the side of the road.
  — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 13 Oct. 2022
• Swans mate for life, after all, and these birds can famously be seen forming a heart shape with their necks and heads.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2026
• Some birds that mate for life, such as cranes and swans, migrate together in family units.
  — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 8 July 2026
• Many of the birds and mammals that mate for life, such as eagles and wolves, have few natural predators.
  — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 8 July 2026
• Barn owls are a species known to mate for life, but research has found 25 percent of barn owls that pair up also divorce.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• Roadrunners mate for life, so we were saddened when the female disappeared.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2022
• Foxes are monogamous and mate for life, and both parents are fiercely protective of their young.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• The survivors’ legacy Most chickadees mate for life and breed once a year, with an average clutch of seven eggs.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
• Beavers, who also are monogamous and mate for life, have a different strategy.
  — Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2025
• The bald eagles, who mate for life, appear to have settled in an old hawk’s nest and appear to be trying to start over, wildlife experts have said.
  — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2022
• Albatrosses, which mate for life, can live over 50 years; chickadees, which do not, live only two or three years in the wild.
  — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 8 July 2026
• These large seabirds, whose dark eyebrows shadow their eyes like mascara, are socially monogamous and often mate for life.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2021
• Birds that mate for life are generally those that either stay together year-round, or return to the same places at the same time every year.
  — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 8 July 2026
• Nearly all cranes, including Walnut’s white-naped variety, mate for life.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2024
• Humboldt penguins typically mate for life and recognize each other through unique calls.
  — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
• Pigeon pairs tend to mate for life, stick together year-round and share parenting duties such as incubating eggs and raising their young.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
• In general, eagles mate for life, according to the College of William and Mary.
  — Finch Walker, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
• Since swallows mate for life –the swallow also represents everlasting love.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• Even for species that mate for life, there may be survival benefits to teaming up with one partner while continuing to mate and have offspring with others.
  — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 8 July 2026
• The parakeet-size birds, which mate for life, immediately moved into the PVC-pipe homes.
  — Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 6 May 2024
• Breeding pairs of French angelfish (one of the only fish that mate for life) don’t care for their young at all, but stick together to patrol their feeding grounds.
  — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 8 July 2026
• McCarthey said the cranes' ever-present communication is due, in part, to the fact that pairs mate for life and often form small family groups.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Jackdaws mate for life, and partners share nest-building and young-rearing responsibilities.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023