How to Use grizzly bear in a Sentence

grizzly bear

noun
  • And what about that grizzly bear sighting?
    — Katie Jackson, Outside, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Stay 100 yards away from black and grizzly bears.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Dick had just swung around me when a grizzly bear walked out from behind a knoll.
    — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • Nature at the end of the world is not a turtle but a grizzly bear.
    — Michael Robbins, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The top speed of a running grizzly bear is 35 miles per hour.
    — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Brown and grizzly bears are different names for the same species.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The author set out to kill an Alaskan grizzly bear with sticks and stone.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Then there were the Bengal tigers, the wolves, the grizzly bear.
    — Longreads, 17 May 2018
  • Just like that, a grizzly bear turned into what feels more like a teddy bear.
    — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Wolves are part of our history just as much as the grizzly bear on our state flag.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • In other words, all grizzly bears are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Happy birthday to the man who snores louder than a grizzly bear.
    — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 27 Nov. 2022
  • At the bottom of the pole, clutching a sockeye, is a grizzly bear.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Rigby is a little grizzly bear of a pup — fat with lots of extra skin and large paws.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Male grizzly bears are the first to leave winter dens, Shideler said.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The central feature of the flag became a grizzly bear.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 12 June 2026
  • The worker’s back is turned to a female grizzly bear creeping up just a few dozen feet away.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Along the way, travelers can see mountain goats and bighorn sheep as well as grizzly bears.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
  • The Tetons are grizzly bear country and the shooters will be trained to use bear spray.
    — Mead Gruver, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Scientists have found the bones of mastodon, bison, grizzly bear and deer there.
    — Megan Stringer, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Deer, grizzly bears, and even bighorn sheep will amble around the park before winter hits.
    — Bridget Hallinan, CNT, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The strength of an ape, the speed of a cheetah, the comic timing of a grizzly bear, and so on.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Adult grizzly bears can grow to be about 8-foot long and weigh roughly 900 pounds.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Colorado once had both, but the last grizzly bear in the state was killed in 1979.
    — Brittany Shammas, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2021
  • Luckily, the grizzly bear stopped a few feet away from Buoy in the water.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • As adults, grizzly bears can weigh up to 500 pounds and stand up to 8 feet tall when on their hind legs.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The two grizzly bears symbolizes the state and its residents' courage and strength.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The last grizzly bear in Arizona was shot and killed in the 1930s.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2023
  • Heading west towards the tranquil town of Jasper, keep your eyes peeled for wildlife like grizzly bears and elk.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • For decades federal agencies have turned a blind eye while roads carved up bear country, and grizzly bears have paid the price.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025

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