How to Use emperor penguin in a Sentence

emperor penguin

noun
  • The large mass of land and ice on the southern tip of the planet is ruled by the emperor penguin.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The largest living penguin species is the emperor penguin, which tops out at 4 feet.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The emperor penguins are on the coast at Gould Bay Camp.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Left to fend for themselves, emperor penguin chicks must find a way to make their first dip into the icy ocean to find food.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is the main event, a trip to see an emperor penguin colony in a place few people have ever set foot before.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2026
  • The greatest threat emperor penguins face is climate change.
    — Stephanie Jenouvrier, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Today, their sizes range from the blue penguin, just over a foot tall, to the emperor penguin, nearly three times as big.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
  • And those views are made even better when an emperor penguin or humpback whale makes an appearance.
    — Jordi Lippe-McGraw 20, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
  • Nothing gets in the way of a baby emperor penguin getting into the water, not even a huge ice cliff.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Bertie Gregory freeze-framed the moment fledgling emperor penguin chicks walk along the edge of an ice shelf.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • By comparison, the tallest living species, the emperor penguin, reaches about four feet in height.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
  • If an ice sheet breaks up before a colony of emperor penguins sees its chicks fledge, the young birds will fall into the water and die, Fretwell said.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • These penguins, unlike their emperor penguins relatives, live and breed on ice-free islands.
    — Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The survival of each new generation of emperor penguins relies on the presence of ice beneath those tiny feet.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The organization noted that emperor penguins need sea ice to create a safe habitat for their chicks and their colonies.
    — Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The emperor penguin is the largest of all penguin species, reaching upwards of 3 feet in height and 100 pounds in weight.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The iconic emperor penguins could all but vanish by the end of the century, another new report projects.
    — Cheryl Katz, National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2019
  • In contrast, today’s largest living penguin, the emperor penguin, is half as massive and shorter by half a meter.
    — Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Weighing nearly 40 pounds and standing up to three feet high, king penguins are second only to emperor penguins in size.
    — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Compared to other penguin species, the emperor penguin is the largest, standing about four feet tall and weighing up to 100 pounds.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The emperor penguin that made global headlines after waddling ashore on a beach in Australia has been released back into the wild.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human.
    — Author: Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The continent is just beginning to emerge from its long polar night, when emperor penguin colonies aren’t visible in the darkness to satellites.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In contrast, the largest of the modern penguins, the emperor penguin, weighs up to 88 pounds and is a little over 4 feet tall, on average.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Due to melting ice, mass drownings of emperor penguin chicks have occurred at multiple breeding sites, and entire colonies have fallen into the ocean.
    — Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Born without the ability to sing, a young emperor penguin expresses himself and hopes to attract a mate through his amazing dancing talent.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • In the Antarctic the food chain is relatively small and any change to a species that is lower in the food chain could impact the health of the emperor penguin (a predator).
    — Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 6 May 2022
  • Two emperor penguins in Antarctica found a camera left by a human and captured a 38-second video of themselves.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In any case, the sculptures are sure to tickle some memory, because they’re based on the most iconic species, such as emperor penguins and European gray wolves.
    — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The research shows the Petradyptes stonehousei was slightly larger than the extant emperor penguin.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2023

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