How to Use herbivore in a Sentence

herbivore

noun
  • Sauropodomorphs are herbivores known for their large size and long necks.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • One is a short, broad body form that kept the herbivores close to the ground when on all four limbs.
    — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Sauropods are herbivores known for their very long necks, long tails, small head and pillar-like legs.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
  • First, wolves ate more medium-sized herbivores.
    — Alex Jensen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Sauropods were known to travel in herds, as do many types of large modern herbivores.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The fact that it’s getting eaten isn’t the fault of the herbivores.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In most cases, those abundant food sources are large herbivores.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Then, the herbivores evolved and produced droppings laden with ferns.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • And of course the Warlock is going to be the herbivore of the group.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • It is derived from plants and is emitted when herbivores move in to attacks and eat them.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The main character, a wolf, is in love with a rabbit, who’s a herbivore.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2025
  • When large herbivores got trapped in the goo, carnivores would follow them in and get stuck as well.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
  • These herbivores were the largest of all dinosaurs and could grow up to about 100 feet long.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Those factors alone helped kill off plants, then the herbivores, and then the carnivores that fed on them.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • If girls are sugar and spice, does that equate them to herbivores, to the boy-snips-and-snails of omnivores?
    — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • This means any large herbivores that did survive the impact are beginning to starve to death.
    — Fox News, 9 Oct. 2019
  • And that seemed a little weird, given that these animals were thought to be strict herbivores.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Stay at least 25 yards, or about two school buses, away from herbivores like moose, elk, deer, and bison.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
  • All told, these were some of the most successful herbivores on the planet, Sereno says.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Wild herbivores also help reduce the spread of wildfires in other ways.
    — Curtis Abraham, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Scientists used to think this armor helped the huge herbivores avoid cross-species breeding.
    — Katherine Hignett, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Much like other large dinosaurs, the Diplodocus achieved its extreme size as an herbivore.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • To protect your lilacs against hooved herbivores, install tall fencing or cages around your lilac bushes.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This places the genus firmly among browsing herbivores, not grazing ones like horses.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • To keep the herbivore munching to a minimum, a 7-foot high deer fence will surround the space.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2021
  • Fostoria was an herbivore that stood on its hind legs and belonged to the same group of dinosaurs as iguanodons.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • The ranges of these herbivores, that eat many types of vegetation, are thought to be expanding fast.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In return, the ostriches offer the services of their acute sense of smell, which the herbivores lack.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Some poor herbivore got stuck in mud, died, and its rotten stink drew scores of Allosaurus here, which became trapped in turn.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 21 June 2017
  • Plants produce these glands to bribe ants with a sweet reward; in return, ants will defend the plant from insect herbivores.
    — Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 20 June 2024

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