How to Use warm-blooded in a Sentence

warm-blooded

adjective

• When the living host dies, the flea seeks a new warm-blooded host.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Our warm-blooded, bodies are too hot for the fungus to thrive.
  — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
• As the snail makes its way to a fish, it then can be passed on to a warm-blooded vertebrate such as a bird or human.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025
• The pest is the New World screwworm fly, and female cows lay eggs in wounds on warm-blooded animals.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 July 2025
• The pest is the New World screwworm fly, and female flies lay eggs in wounds on warm-blooded animals.
  — Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
• Evolving to be warm-blooded meant mammals could move at night.
  — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
• In time, the law evolved to include all warm-blooded animals, with the exception of mice, rats and birds.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2023
• Unlike many other ocean dwellers, whales are warm-blooded.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• Now, a new study estimates that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed the Earth about 180 million years ago, about halfway through the creatures' time on the planet.
  — CBS News, 15 May 2024
• Tick bites are bites from small parasites that feed on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded animals.
  — Laura Schober, Health, 9 July 2025
• Sounds like the makings of a joke, but when the waters start to rise, this simple, wordless tale deepens into a warm-blooded epic about teamwork and survival.
  — Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2025
• This flying reptile was likely covered in a layer of fur and was also warm-blooded.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The small wingless insects grow to about the size of an apple seed and feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals — including people sleeping at night.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Mammals are defined as warm-blooded vertebrates with hair who produce milk to feed their young.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• As such, scientists know relatively little about the species, though it is known to be the only completely warm-blooded fish in the world.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 10 Aug. 2023
• The flatworms first infect the snail, then a fish, and finally a warm-blooded vertebrate, like a bird or a human, that consumes the infected fish.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025
• The porbeagle, a large and graceful warm-blooded shark, has been observed playfully chasing peers, rolling in the water, and nudging kelp.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• This new addition means that there are likely more warm-blooded sharks than scientists thought and that warm bloodedness evolved quite a long time ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• Paleontologists have gone back and forth over the years on whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• But the microscopic parasite could infect any warm-blooded animal or find its way into the food chain, the study said.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• All mammals are warm-blooded and expend great amounts of energy to keep their insides toasty, and consistently so.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• The bacteria ends up in our waters from the gastrointestinal tracts of people and warm-blooded animals.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
• A little savvy based on our warm-blooded bodies, food, appliances, furniture, the outdoor elements and more can go a long way.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Likewise, the absence of warm-blooded carnivores that would need a great deal of food, such as big cats, allowed the slow-breeding elephants to maintain a population there.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
• Scientists had only recently come to understand that the fish were warm-blooded.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Recent research found that the animal was more warm-blooded than other sharks, for example, and there is an ongoing debate about its size and shape.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
• Being warm-blooded likely allowed the creatures to swim faster and gobble up bigger prey, reports New Scientist’s Sofia Quaglia.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
• Last year, her team reported a shocking discovery: that the megalodon, the giant extinct shark considered to be the largest fish that ever lived, may have been warm-blooded like mammals.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
• Flies deposit eggs on wounds or exposed tissue of warm-blooded animals, like livestock cattle.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
• The worms have a life cycle that involves living inside three hosts: first, the trumpet snail; then, a fish; and finally a warm-blooded vertebrate like birds or humans that are unlucky enough to eat the infected fish.
  — Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025