How to Use giant panda in a Sentence

giant panda

noun
  • The little orangutan is learning to climb, and the giant panda took a dip.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • Bei Bei is the third giant panda to have been born at the zoo and moved to China.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • What the zoo will no longer have, as of Wednesday, are the giant pandas themselves.
    — Edward Wong Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Much later, bamboo came on the scene, and well after that, giant pandas.
    — National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The sound of the giant panda’s bamboo crunching mingled with bird calls.
    — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
  • Japan’s last pair of giant pandas returns to China.
    — Teri Schultz, NPR, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The zoo in San Diego sent its giant pandas to China four years ago.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Zoologists in France jumped for joy when a giant panda gave birth to two healthy cubs.
    — Amy Wray, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • After a brief absence, giant pandas are on their way back to Atlanta.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • These big numbers mean plenty of precious photos for us, and a new hope for the giant panda species as a whole.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Now, visitors to the zoo will once again enjoy seeing new giant pandas.
    — Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The cub was born to Mei Xiang, the zoo's female giant panda, six weeks ago.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2020
  • But the giant panda hasn’t always been an emblem of the Chinese nation.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
  • For more than 50 years, China has loaned giant pandas to US zoos.
    — CNN, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Some good news The first giant pandas in decades have been unveiled at San Diego Zoo.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There are thought to be about 1,800 giant pandas living in the wild in Sichuan province.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The four giant pandas at Zoo Atlanta will go back to China later this year.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • The National Zoo said Monday that its six-week-old giant panda cub is a male.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Tian Tian, a male giant panda at the National Zoo, has fathered all of her cubs.
    — Rebecca Bratek, CBS News, 5 July 2018
  • Xiao Qi Ji is the fourth giant panda cub born at the National Zoo.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Since late 2024, Zoo Atlanta has been without giant pandas for the first time in over two decades.
    — Ryan Brennan april 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But this week came the surprise news that San Diego Zoo has struck a deal to bring giant pandas back to its facility.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • It's now considered the oldest DNA from giant pandas to date, the researchers said.
    — Rafi Letzter, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • The new agreement comes as China continues to expand protections for giant pandas in the wild.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Those species range from the clouded leopard (above left) to the giant panda (right) to the world’s last 30 Hainan black crested gibbons.
    — Glenna Gordon, National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Then giant pandas returned to the San Diego Zoo this summer for the first time since 2019.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The zoo in San Diego sent its giant pandas to China in 2019; they have not been replaced.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The giant pandas, named Xin Bao and Yun Chuan, are the first to enter the country in 21 years.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
  • After two years without them, giant pandas are coming home to Zoo Atlanta — and the city couldn’t be more excited.
    — Ryan Brennan april 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This morning via YouTube, the National Zoo announced the six-week-old giant panda cub is a male.
    — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020

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