How to Use lioness in a Sentence

lioness

noun
  • Just up ahead a lioness and her three cubs wrestled on a log.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Robin loves a lioness look, and can lay down some strong live vocals.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The group, this a pack of hyenas on a single lioness, has brought her down.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
  • One lioness, spotted on a recent tour, is in just this pose with her jaw gone slack.
    — Sarah Matusek, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2025
  • As the eldest, the young lioness is the heir of the Pride Lands.
    — Caché McClay, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The video shows a male lion leading two lionesses toward the car.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Karen is like watching a bored lioness toy with a baby springbok.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • In a pride, each lioness has two to four cubs, all of whom bask in their father’s attention.
    — Knvul Sheikh, New York Times, 21 July 2019
  • The lioness spots him and makes a beeline for the tree, pulling Machado down to the ground.
    — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • She's become a real kind of lioness about both of her teams and that's what's been so lovely to play.
    — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
  • Kylie wasn't the only one to rock the lioness look, which also featured corset-style straps on its rear side.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The lioness clamped onto Lee’s arm and refused to let go, even when struck in the head with a pipe.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Another young female charges me but is stopped by an older lioness, who bats her on the nose with a huge paw.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • And for all those single moms who defend and protect their children like lionesses.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 7 May 2023
  • The lionesses hunt, give birth, raise cubs, and emotionally support the male heirs.
    — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
  • After the leaders of the pack walked off, the lionesses and cubs swarmed in to finish off the buffalo.
    — Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The lioness then entered a house and attacked the girl, who was inside with a second teenager.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Upon their return, the lionesses called their five young out to the grassland and began cleaning one of them.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The dead lions, eight of them cubs and the other three adult lionesses, were part of a pride that also included three males.
    — Alexander Braczkowski, National Geographic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Leona, the lioness who mauled the teen, is under evaluation.
    — Kate Reilly, NBC news, 1 Dec. 2025
  • But a lioness walks over to Thecla, lies at her feet and protects her from the other animals.
    — Christy Cobb, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Early in the morning, Boyd watched as these lionesses groomed one of their five cubs in their territory.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
  • At another point in the clip, a lioness is filmed brazenly walking past, like a neighbor out for a stroll, in the middle of the day.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Female lionesses may mate 100 times a day with a string of different partners.
    — Dave Pell, WIRED, 1 July 2016
  • Whether the lionesses will continue to hang around Torra Bay is an open question.
    — Ryan Truscott, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • One, a small lioness, was found by the customs brigade in a cage in a garage in the southern French port city of Marseille .
    — John Leicester, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Photos released by the fire service show the lioness before she was killed, peering out from a tangle of bushes and leaves.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The burly 3-year-old is currently getting used to his new habitat and the three resident lionesses.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The two young males were ejected from the pride right after the zebra was killed, so the availability of food may have spurred the lionesses to send the males packing.
    — National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Orozco is an artist at heart and created an image of the green-eyed mountain lioness for which the Leoncita block is named for the label of this wine.
    — Laura Ness, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024

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