How to Use brown bear in a Sentence

brown bear

noun
  • Deer and bison will be preyed on by grey wolves and brown bears.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • No, brown bears do not live in Michigan.
    — Saman Shafiq, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Does Michigan have brown bears?
    — Saman Shafiq, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Quick shooting has saved my life twice from charging brown bears.
    — Jim Rearden, Outdoor Life, 23 July 2025
  • And then, a brown bear charged him — three times, Battle said.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The box design, with its cheery brown bear chefs, is worth framing.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • Both black and brown bears frequent these areas, so be sure to bring bear spray.
    — Robert Annis, Outside, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Katmai is a home and hunting ground for some of the largest brown bears in the world.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Alaska’s coastal brown bears source a great deal of their food from the shores and beaches.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2026
  • An Alaskan brown bear is the latest creature to fall prey to spam bots.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Only three out of 10 of the brown bears will stay in just one country.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 24 May 2018
  • This suggests the brown bear had come back and dragged the man's body away, the Asahi said.
    — CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Over the past decade only four people have been killed by an Alaskan brown bear.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2020
  • In other words, all grizzly bears are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The number of brown bears here can average nearly one per square mile.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 11 June 2018
  • Below, dozens of brown bears dug clams, ate sedge grass and loped across tidal flats, ready for chum salmon to arrive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Ursus arctos marsicanus is one of the rarest types of brown bear around.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Japan is home to many species of wild animals, including both black and brown bears.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Two days later, a third brown bear was shot in Eagleridge for the same reason.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
  • Stepan is 26 years old, elderly for a brown bear, and can hardly walk.
    — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Nor did the Baikal seal, brown bear, and forest reindeer that call that same region home.
    — National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2017
  • The men reported seeing the brown bear, thought to be female, and its cub on each side of the road.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
  • So does the diet of fish eaten by the large brown bears of southern Alaska.
    — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Meat from the black bears and some of the brown bears was also donated to local villages.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • So the Clova Friends speaker is in the shape of a yellow or a brown bear.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Thousands tune in to watch an Alaskan brown bear named Otis on live webcam.
    — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Moreover, it was found that brown bears and cats had the the same number of cortical neurons.
    — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • In a brown bear encounter, the safest means of action is to lay flat on your stomach and place your hands behind your neck.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The city’s emblem is a bear, and back then there was still a mumbly old brown bear in an actual pit in the city center.
    — Susanna Forrest, Longreads, 23 Mar. 2023
  • For Katmai’s brown bears, gaining weight is a matter of survival.
    — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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