How to Use pine marten in a Sentence

pine marten

noun
  • Despite efforts to spot it again, the pine marten has not reappeared.
    Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Look out for otters, pine martens and golden eagles.
    Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Occasional sightings of eagles, bears, pine martens, moose, and timber wolves from above add to the fun.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Other aggressive species include the horsefly, a venomous sand-burrowing fish, and the cherubic-looking pine marten, a kind of cute but angry weasel.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In the Mendip Hills of southwestern England, a pine marten, considered locally extinct for over 100 years, was caught on a trail camera.
    Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Outside, the grounds read like a naturalist’s dream—California redwoods towering over the spring garden, woodlands alive with pine martens and sparrowhawks, and jetties waiting for fishing boats.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Over the next several decades, a roll call of Pennsylvania’s native animals would be extirpated, including mountain lions, wolves, wolverines, badgers, pine marten, and fisher cats; whitetail deer were nearly wiped out of the state, as were black bears and turkeys.
    Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

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