How to Use marten in a Sentence

marten

noun
  • Pelts from these marten are used world-wide to make clothing for warmth and fashion.
    — Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2020
  • That would equate to over 1,000 marten in a three-month season.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Thomas asked them to redesign the project, with an eye to protecting marten habitat.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Growers often use rat poison to protect their crop, which kills martens, the groups said.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Top prices for marten are around $70, and that is for the best — the average will come in far lower.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The coastal marten, also known as the Humboldt marten, is about the size of a ferret and lives in coastal forests.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The marten’s head dates from the same period as the painting and is in the exhibition.
    — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • At the same time, marten populations shot up and the researchers began to see their scat in new areas.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • The meat-eating Humboldt marten is about the size of a kitten and is related to minks.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The fisher cat is a member of the weasel family and is most closely related to a mink or a marten.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2022
  • For the last eight years, Pauli has been studying American martens on the island.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • Alaska and Canadian marten should be $40 or better for good skins.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The rule bars trapping in the two national forests in the state where the only two marten populations live.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • With their larger competitors out of the way, the smaller, less numerous martens had some breathing room.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • The group includes martens, weasels, badgers, honey badgers, otters, and sea otters.
    — National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • Aristotle also compared the dog to a marten, a member of the weasel family, perhaps because of its size.
    — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The marten, a member of the weasel family, is not endangered, but its population levels are seen as a useful proxy for forest health.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Mink are members of the Mustelidae family that also includes weasels, badgers, otters, marten and wolverines.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The team gathered their marten data via 285 hair snares (made from PVC pipe) and 135 cameras.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Interviews with owners and staff revealed that the farms were occasionally visited by wild martens, weasel-like carnivores.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Solitary trappers poke trails into some remote sections in search of marten during the winter months, but with the dismal demand for furs, trappers are a disappearing breed.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
  • The Canadian Rockies hold a huge number of carnivores—wolves, cougars, wolverine, lynx, coyote, marten, and smaller weasels.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 14 June 2018
  • Otters are part of the weasel family (Mustelidae), which includes some of nature’s most ferocious pint-sized predators, such as badgers, martens, and wolverines.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The story included a map of the range of pine martens, which showed that populations lived in the area of a controversial iron mining site in Ashland and Iron counties.
    — Lee Bergquist, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Beavers expand the water system on the Baldwin Peninsula, improving the conditions for fish and insects, which in turn creates more food for minks, otters and martens.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • In North America, the loss of large, old-growth trees could reduce the ranks of forest specialists, such as martens and fishers, members of the weasel family that den inside tree hollows.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The ranch also may be home to threatened or endangered species, including Canada lynx, American marten, snowshoe hare and Gunnison’s prairie dog.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 28 June 2026
  • Researchers also saw higher numbers of racoons, Japanese marten, a weasel-like animal, and Japanese macaque or monkeys in uninhabited or restricted zones.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Wolverines are in the Mustelidae family, a group of carnivorous mammals, along with weasels, mink, marten and otters, according got the National Park Service.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023

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