How to Use leatherback in a Sentence

leatherback

noun
  • Then, there is the tragedy of the leatherback sea turtles.
    — M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Late at night, the team waits for leatherbacks to creep up the beaches.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • Really big, in the case of the leatherback, which can weigh nearly a ton.
    — David Doubilet, National Geographic, 14 May 2016
  • There have been no recent sightings of leatherback sea turtles.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In Pensacola, the first leatherback turtles hatched in over two decades.
    — Rebekah Castor, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Check out this video, which captured a leatherback turtle eating a jellyfish.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Anguilla is a haven for three main species of turtles; the green, the leatherback and the hawksbill turtles.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • An adult Kemp's ridley may weigh less than most teenagers, while a leatherback can outweigh a bison.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Adult leatherback sea turtles weigh an average of 1,000 pounds.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
  • There are just seven species of sea turtles and Maisy is a hybrid of two of them, but the largest of them all is the leatherback.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2020
  • The nesting season for leatherback sea turtles runs from March to July.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The nesting season for leatherback sea turtles runs from March to July.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 June 2023
  • The largest are leatherbacks, which can reach 1,000 pounds or more and live largely on jellyfish.
    — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Most showed no change, and leatherback turtles in the Pacific ocean are still declining.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The big draw of Grande Riviere is the chance to see leatherback turtles waddling along the shoreline.
    — Keishel Williams, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Another wider trackway is more consistent with that of the leatherback turtle.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The fight is taking place over beaches used for thousands of years by female loggerhead, green and leatherback turtles.
    — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 8 May 2021
  • Hopping onto a whale watching trip also opens the chance for rare sightings of dolphins, orcas and leatherback turtles.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Once common all over the world’s oceans, leatherbacks now exist in only seven populations worldwide.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Elephants and forest buffalos roam the shores, while the area is renowned for its seasonal leatherback turtle sightings and brilliant bird life.
    — Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Loggerhead, leatherback and green sea turtles are losing their habitat all over the world and are choosing the state to lay their eggs, Sherwood said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 May 2021
  • Trail’s study shows that hatchling leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) sometimes struggle to see the sea.
    — Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2022
  • The leatherback turtle can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds and survives almost entirely on jellyfish.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • From March through October, guests can help monitor turtles—green, hawksbill, and leatherback—nesting on the beach.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Godfrey added that leatherbacks have almost no predators once they're fully grown, except for large sharks — but their greatest threat is human activity.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Other marine turtle species found here are the loggerhead, hawksbill, green and, the largest of all with a carapace that is often 10 feet long, the leatherback.
    — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • From February to September, guests may even catch a glimpse of giant leatherback turtles that lay their eggs on the resort’s golden shores.
    — Amber Kallor, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Joining them are the world's largest sea turtle, the leatherback, and the gharial, a crocodile found in the rivers of Nepal and northern India.
    — Zahid Mahmood, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Today, loggerheads and leatherbacks nest mainly along the country’s northeastern coast rather than the Cape South Coast.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The hawksbill, loggerhead, and green sea turtles still come to Curaçao to lay their eggs, but the leatherback sea turtle, the largest sea turtle species, no longer nests on the island.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026

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