How to Use primate in a Sentence

primate

noun

• With so much at stake, primates evolved to keep a close eye on group members.
  — Clarissa Brincat, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2025
• Many fans took to the comments section to mourn the loss of the primate.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2021
• And so do some primates, such as bonobos and snub-nosed monkeys.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
• Courts ruled the primates didn't have the legal rights of people.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
• Expect small steps and giant leaps from this three-week-old primate.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The aye-aye looks almost nothing like a primate.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
• It's worked for primates and researchers hope the transfers will work too.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2016
• Among primates, the gene that makes this protein has barely changed over the ages.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• Kong unfreezes himself, and proves once again to be the fiercest primate around.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
• These brownish, dog-sized primates live in troops of dozens of males and females.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 6 July 2017
• Primates, on the other hand, are riskier prey.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• The chimps were caged in a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary.
  — Deepti Hajela, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
• There may have been a lot more primates very similar to us at a certain point.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2015
• Heroes dying is even a bigger deal in the primate screen world.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2018
• But in other primates, the birth canal narrows farther down than that.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
• The discovery is the first time these traits have been observed in a non-primate species.
  — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2020
• My dreams of bonding with the primates and teaching them sign language--dashed.
  — Whitney Tower, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2014
• The monkeys that escaped are rhesus macaque primates, which have brown fur with red faces and ears.
  — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
• That is, until a fateful balloon pop set the primate off on a rampage.
  — Vulture, 24 July 2022
• Guinea pigs, primates, rabbits and hamsters are far more common.
  — Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 25 Mar. 2026
• Alpha-gal is found in the meat of most mammals, but not in humans or other primates.
  — Matthew Perrone, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
• Alpha-gal is found in the meat of most mammals, but not in humans or other primates.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 13 June 2026
• All of the primates had to pull a sliding shelf saddled with weights toward themselves.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2015
• The rodents with nails were also more likely to live in trees like many non-human primates.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
• The male primates, in turn, are more likely to ejaculate when a female makes noise.
  — Emily Morse, Glamour, 14 Jan. 2018
• The primate died on Wednesday at the age of 36 due to a cardiac event.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• Among the many animals banned were all types of primates with some exceptions.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
• In fact, Maro points out that this affinity may go back even further than primates.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
• It's picked up by the reddish-brown primate, who expertly puffs on it to laughter from the crowd.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• But no birthday cake, because sugar isn't healthy for the aging primate.
  — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026