How to Use orangutan in a Sentence

orangutan

noun
  • For orangutans, the stakes are high.
    — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That’s when the young orangutans start tuning in.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The baby turns out to be an orangutan named Blanche.
    — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In the wild, baby orangutans have a strong bond with their mothers.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
  • What do African clawed frogs, orangutans and goats all have in common?
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The hyena kills the zebra and the orangutan.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Footage of the orangutan at the zoo in places he should not have been was featured on the broadcast.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The team hopes to place the baby orangutan with a foster mother at the zoo.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2025
  • One day in late June, observers heard sounds of a clash between orangutans.
    — Bykermit Pattison, science.org, 2 May 2024
  • The orangutans’ deaths are a huge blow to a very vulnerable species.
    — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 16 June 2026
  • The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek.
    — CBS News, 2 May 2024
  • Nenette is one of the last orangutans living in a zoo to be born out of captivity.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2019
  • Behind a fence no more than 15 yards away, an orangutan had plopped himself down on the grass.
    — Eric Sandstrom, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • And then there's the sloth, the flamingo, the skunk, the orangutan, as well as a new yawning emoji.
    — Michelle Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
  • And then there’s the sloth, the flamingo, the skunk, the orangutan, as well as a new yawning emoji.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • The little orangutan is learning to climb, and the giant panda took a dip.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • So throughout the movie we’re being stalked by orangutans who are killing, one by one, the team off with throwing stars.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
  • The newborn orangutan, which is not yet named, is the fifth born to father Bandar.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest ape on the planet, also shows up.
    — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
  • Tara shared the baby with Tengku, 37, the only male orangutan at the zoo.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The structures were designed to support the orangutan's weight — no small feat for the world's largest tree‑dwelling mammal.
    — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The structures were designed to support the orangutan’s weight — no small feat for the world’s largest tree‑dwelling mammal.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • An orchid, a baobab tree, a dugong, an orangutan, even at some future point the trace lines of a mycelial network––all of these should hold money.
    — J.m. Ledgard, Wired, 12 May 2021
  • The Dublin Zoo’s orangutan, named Mujur, gave birth to a baby male last month.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Napoleon’s first wife, Josephine, kept a beloved orangutan named Rose, who was treated more like a person than a pet.
    — Grant Addison, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
  • An orangutan at the Louisville Zoo recently asked for a close-up look at a young visitor.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2023
  • When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it for comfort.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Hannover’s other two orangutans moved last year to the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas.
    — Janet McConnaughey, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The orangutan's approach was slower, building nests near the bridge, lingering at its edges and testing the ropes over time.
    — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The orangutan’s approach was slower, building nests near the bridge, lingering at its edges and testing the ropes over time.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026

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