How to Use big cat in a Sentence

big cat

noun
  • The big cat was last seen in 1973.
    — Mark Gray, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time a big cat has been seized in the Dallas area.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Keepers squats to scratch the big cat, and speaks sweetly to her through the grate.
    — Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Why can’t domestic cats go without food for long, like their big cat cousins can?
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Then the big cat lunges forward and slams its sizable paws against the window with a thud.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In the background stands a ferocious beast with the bulk of a bear but the face of a big cat.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The big cat answered a little closer.
    — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This line is quite tense, like the curve of a longbow or the muscles of a big cat waiting to pounce.
    — Jonny Lieberman, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
  • The new pictures are of the same big cat, which has been roaming the area for several years.
    — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Among the 20 images is a shot of a rare black tiger, a big cat that gets its name from its extra-wide stripes.
    — Kelli Bender, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Wyatt — with severe lacerations to his face — beat on and grabbed the big cat.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Guests sleep with nothing but glass between their pillow and a big cat enclosure.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Like Randolph, Bardot was a big cat person.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Analyzing the man's wound, researchers found that the bite mark was made by a big cat, most likely a lion.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
  • This might be a big cat from outside the US or a 63-year-old beluga whale.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The big cat habitat will be located in the Alabama Wilds area of the park.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The two bite marks, apparently those of a big cat, are closest to matching the lion among living species.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • Fittingly for a creature with pressing hunger and no time for chit-chat, the big cat’s delivery is terse and prose-poem-like.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • The incident occurred at the end of a big cat show that multiple people attended.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The child's mom screamed at the big cat and the cougar abandoned its attack, according to the NPS.
    — Jolie Lash, ABC News, 30 July 2023
  • The video, which went viral on Chinese social media, shows the big cat hurling itself against the iron gate of the man's home.
    — Peter Guo, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
  • But unfortunately for the big cat, a tiny but sassy hedgehog is a mile ahead of the pre-Christmas box office race.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2024
  • As a crowd snapped photos and video, the big cat tried to figure out how to escape a hospital courtyard, injuring its paw in the process.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
  • Behind the big cat is the family’s dead house cat, freshly killed by the 120-pound mountain lion.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But wildlife supporters could bank on the big cat coming down from the mountaintop to amaze onlookers who were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of him over the years.
    — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The sheriff’s office shared a two-minute bodycam video showing the warden and deputies working to remove the big cat from the driver’s car.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The concession extends through four different eco-zones and happens to be prime rhino and big cat real estate.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, poaching of jaguar prey species, such as the brocket deer, peccary and iguana, is thought to impact the big cat’s food supply.
    — Tom Page, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The big cat mid-stretch spray-painted on a bare sheet of plywood for billboards was removed by a contractor to reduce the likelihood of theft.
    — Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Bill Dabney of Pasadena was one of the unlucky few who had roof turds on his guest house that led directly to a big cat encounter.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026

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