How to Use black bear in a Sentence

black bear

noun

• The panoramic view and the black bear are sure sightings.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 2 June 2022
• On a trip in 2018, our food pack was ripped to shreds by a black bear.
  — Times Insider Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• In the northeast, floods can wake black bears from their dens.
  — WIRED, 25 July 2023
• The dog then ran back out of the woods with a black bear chasing after it.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 July 2023
• Think of this black bear as a late teenager in bear years.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• The region is filled with black bears, whales, and other wildlife species.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
• In the video, a small black bear is seen running along the cement wall in the Redmond back yard.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
• The biggest adults could be more than ten feet long and weighed more than 600 pounds, about the size of an adult black bear.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• The first grainy film clip shows a black bear exploding out of the trail camera’s frame.
  — WIRED, 8 July 2023
• The area has deer, elk, black bear, wild turkeys and mountain lion.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• For most trail runners, bear spray is overkill in black bear country.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
• Deer, moose, black bears, beaver and fisher cats wander the forest floor.
  — David Sharp, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• If the outermost toe lands below that line, the track was likely made by a black bear.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
• On the other side of the river, a black bear appeared lumbering along the water.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The black bear was found dead near a duffel bag and 40 packages of cocaine, ripped open and scattered over the hillside.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 Dec. 2022
• On Wednesday, the sound of an air horn blasted through the campground as a black bear and two cubs sauntered into the site.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• But at the moment, Humm isn’t thinking about his menu at Masque, nor the black bear that raced down a tree a few feet from him minutes ago.
  — Julian Manning, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2023
• The attack marked at least the second time in the U.S. that a black bear was killed after attacking a person this week.
  — CBS News, 25 Oct. 2022
• The black bear was reportedly stuck in a tree, forcing closures for more than a dozen rides.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• There were several reports of black bear sightings in the Silver Spring area in June 2016.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• Erskine draws hope from the bit of evidence to the contrary provided by the black bear.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Tooth roots from black bear sows show the one-year-on, one-year-off pattern of their breeding cycle, Gary explains.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Sep. 2023
• The other hunters in his group each shot a black bear, but Roosevelt was unsuccessful.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2023
• On Wednesday, a black bear broke into a home in Barkhamsted, Conn., roaming around the house and found a platter of frozen lasagna.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Oct. 2023
• An adult black bear was helping himself to some marshmallows and crackers Priest had left out on the kitchen counter.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2022
• Officials don't know if a grizzly bear or a black bear was involved.
  — CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023
• Lucky ones might catch a glimpse of a black bear, a species whose population is rebounding in this corner of the Lone Star State.
  — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2023
• Steven Jackson was sitting in a chair near his campsite in Prescott, Arizona when a black bear attacked and killed him.
  — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
• Last year, the park closed several trails in the fall so black bears could feed in the area in preparation for hibernation.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
• Unlike the brown bears and black bears in North America, sun bears do not hibernate for the winter.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024