How to Use ocelot in a Sentence

ocelot

noun
  • The jaguars and ocelots wait until the macaws come down to the clay.
    — Shaena Montanari, National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The region even serves as a habitat for the rare jaguar and ocelot.
    — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
  • Her husband was dressed in an all-black suit with an ocelot stole on his shoulder.
    — Kayla Grant, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Within a month, an ocelot was photographed in a river canyon on the ranch.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The parks are also home to tapirs, giant anteaters, howler monkeys, ocelots, and jaguars.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The ocelot proved unruly and was shipped out to the Portland Zoo.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • This ocelot is the seventh to roam Arizona in the last 20 years.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The neighbors include sea turtles, ocelots and howler monkeys.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Visit the giraffes, elephants and flamingos, and maybe get a peek at a baby ocelot.
    — Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • At least one ocelot has also been photographed traipsing through the area multiple times.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2019
  • Other scavengers — pumas, ocelots, caiman, and coyotes — were rarely spotted.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2025
  • Blakely the Australian shepherd has cared for cheetahs, tigers, ocelots and more!
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In Colombia, poachers have been killing more jaguars, pumas, and ocelots, Newsweek reports.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The ocelot is a midsize cat — larger than a house cat but smaller than a bobcat, according to the zoo.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Wood drums are often carved with Aztec symbols such as the sun or animals like owls, eagles and ocelots.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Regardless of the habitat, ocelots play an important role in any ecosystem.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Members of the military travelling with ocelots may board with Group 1.
    — Ann Beattie, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • Check out a cabaret show in Kenner, an art installation and a tiny ocelot at the Audubon Zoo.
    — Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • In the gulch just to my southwest, a jaguar roamed during his three-year stay in the range, and an ocelot was recently spotted bounding through this spot.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • In the more than three months since the pandemic began, Araya recently told me, her project had logged only one slain ocelot.
    — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 6 July 2020
  • In the basement is the nightclub Babou, named for artist Salvador Dalí's capricious pet ocelot.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • Palm Beach Zoo remains home to an ocelot named Jade, who arrived in 2010.
    — Jayda Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2017
  • The refuge is one of the last places where ocelots breed, and restoration efforts aim to connect isolated thorn forests so the cats can travel between them.
    — Laura Mallonee, Wired News, 12 Apr. 2025
  • On her computer, Zingheim found stunning photographs of birds, bears, ocelots and bobcats.
    — Phuong Le, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
  • In the ocelot enclosure, a eucalyptus limb used as a walkway by the aging cat was wrapped in rope to provide a better grip.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Getting an ocelot or a cheetah can be as easy as sending a DM or text, agreeing on a price, and setting a pick-up date.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Another ocelot has continued to trip cameras farther east, in the Huachucas, for years.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The filmmakers get remarkably close to the animals — not just to the ocelot but the birds and reptiles that the young cat must learn to trap in order to live in the wild.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Coats of mink, lynx, wolf, sable and ocelot covered the walls of his store, a branch of fashion house Pajaro, one of several high-end fur boutiques in town.
    — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The area is also a migratory route for jaguars and ocelots traveling to and from breeding grounds in Mexico.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2024

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