How to Use marsupial in a Sentence

marsupial

1 of 2 noun
  • This marsupial ate both meat and plants, and spent part of its days up in the trees.
    — Sean Greene, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • One opossum found out the hard way that marsupials and dance halls don't mix.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • But the marsupials can also hold their own in the water.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Like all marsupials, possums have pouches and give birth to live young.
    — National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2020
  • This one is wind and waterproof, with a large marsupial-like pocket and a hood.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2022
  • But the Maremma is here to protect the marsupial, not hunt it.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Yes, a marsupial from down under was hopping around a Texas city.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2021
  • Many view the marsupials as pests which destroy pasture and cause crashes by hopping in front of cars.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • There are seven species of these marsupials alive in Australia.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The effort is the latest step to allow the tiny marsupial to rebound.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The name suggests the image of an overgrown marsupial that hasn’t left its mother’s pouch.
    — NBC News, 30 May 2021
  • For those who happen to be fans of both Bruno Mars and marsupials, prepare for your hearts to melt.
    — Abby Jones, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018
  • While the goal was to resurrect the extinct marsupial, the project ended a few years later.
    — Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2015
  • Researchers have shed new light on the fossil remains of a huge bear-sized marsupial that once roamed Australia.
    — Fox News, 26 June 2020
  • Implant the embryo into a female marsupial such as a quoll, and watch the quoll give birth to a thylacine baby.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • The southern marsupial mole was found to have fluorescent fur, but the species is blind, writes the Guardian.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • As the ranks of marsupials thins out, the beetles have begun to live mostly on decaying mushrooms.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 15 July 2017
  • After gently wiggling the possum free from her dog's fur, the pet parent gives viewers a full view of the adorable marsupial.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The Kangaroo has a pouch, which is only found in female marsupials.
    — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Conservationists hope that the dogs will stay near the solitary marsupial and ward off fox attacks.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Nadia Tugwell, with her coat in hand, teamed up with a stranger clutching a blanket in a bid to capture the marsupial.
    — Author: Rod McGuirk, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The marsupial is a land animal normally at home in the Australian bush and forests.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The real heroes are the townspeople, who never stopped searching for the marsupial on the run.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Standing around three feet high, the modern koala is roughly 25 pounds of claws and teeth, tufty ears and fluffy white marsupial tummy.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In just about every koala photo, the furry Australian marsupial is clinging to a tree.
    — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2014
  • That’s not far from where the original marsupial was first seen on Grubstake Avenue.
    — Megan Pacer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • The marsupials are infected by a different strain of the disease than humans.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Tuesday marked the first time Eastern quolls, a species of small Australian marsupial, have been returned to the wild.
    — National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But the latest research shows that even moderate heat can threaten the survival of the marsupial, the researchers said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • More than 350 of the marsupials are feared to have been killed by the fires, according to animal experts.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019

marsupial

2 of 2 adjective
  • The birds didn't have teeth and the bite marks from marsupial teeth don't match those on the bone.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The dogs sniff for koala fur or the marsupial’s feces to locate them.
    — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Female kangaroos rarely have twins, but marsupial words can have two or even three joeys.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Throwing away the original name my dad had bequeathed me over a marsupial joke.
    — Jodie Chan, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2021
  • From those teeth, Aplin was able to describe and classify two marsupial species.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The tiger, or thylacine, was the world’s largest marsupial carnivore.
    — Rob Taylor, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • There’s often a little story within the story, a joey in a marsupial pouch.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But fair warning — in some cases, these packs can make their wearers look like marsupial moms carrying their little joeys to term.
    — Julie Ma, The Cut, 22 Feb. 2018
  • But Australian dung beetles were used to recycling marsupial dung and could not tackle the cow chips.
    — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • The jacket was a smothering embrace, like a marsupial pouch I was born into and had no desire to crawl out of.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2017
  • The lab plans to develop a biobank of frozen marsupial cells so individuals could be cloned and released.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • The common brushtail possum is one of the most widespread marsupial species in Australia.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
  • About 23 million years ago in Australia, a marsupial lion lived in the open forest and spent part of its life in trees.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2018
  • The eastern quoll, a cat-sized marsupial with pointy ears and speckled fur, was once found throughout south-eastern Australia.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • This marsupial species is common in fossil deposits in southern Australia but is unknown in the north.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom, this marsupial poops cubes.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
  • The beetles had made a significant ecological leap from the hard, dry nuggets of marsupial dung to which they were adapted.
    — Richard Jones, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Chesney’s marsupial companion back at the farm.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Kenny, who with his marsupial mate has the run of Marland’s house, was happy to be reunited with Chesney.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Kenny, who with his marsupial mate has the run of Marland’s house, was happy to be reunited with Chesney.
    — John O'Connor, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Kenny, who with his marsupial mate has the run of Marland's house, was happy to be reunited with Chesney.
    — CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The show follows the story of three spunky marsupial siblings as their adventures lead them to new heights and new opportunities for learning.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers have identified a new species of miniature marsupial frog that carries its young in a pouch on its back — a trait that sets it apart from the vast majority of frog species worldwide.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Their conclusions come from comparing present-day kangaroo skeletal anatomy with the fossils of their marsupial cousins.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The programme also suggested that this might explain why marsupial embryos are born at such a premature stage of development.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2012
  • The Tasmanian tiger, known to science as the thylacine, was the only member of its genus of marsupial carnivores to live to modern times.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012
  • The Gastrotheca genus is a group of marsupial frogs found across Central and South America.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The Tasmanian devil is the world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore and typically lives for up to six years in the wild.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 May 2021
  • Pask claims the marsupial species could potentially be recreated using gene editing technology and could be reintroduced to the wild within in the next decade.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Shortly after ovulation, marsupial moms secrete layers of mucus and protein around their eggs, covering them in a hard, protective shell.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 23 July 2021

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