How to Use polar bear in a Sentence

polar bear

noun
  • He was charged by polar bears twice.
    — Clare Conley, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
  • With the storm and dead whales came polar bears.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There were no dogs or cats, but there were polar bears and seals.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Hey, pandas are bears and so are polar bears, right?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2025
  • His life was marked not by school grades but by first fox trapped, first polar bear shot.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In ten years, all the snow leopards and polar bears might be gone.
    — Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Four polar bears in four days, two of which squared over 10 feet.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The three polar bears have one block each, waiting for them on the ground.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • Two polar bears approached the camp.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The polar bear was just a faraway speck in a frozen white expanse.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Through the scope, a polar bear twitched on the ice, 25 yards in front of me.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There was a constant risk of attack by polar bears.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The bird weighed as much as an adult male polar bear and was more than 11 feet tall.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2019
  • Some hope to glimpse a polar bear before the species goes extinct.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Watching the polar bears swim at the zoo during hard times soothed him.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
  • And the polar bear simply walked by the campsite and then left.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Wildlife, such as polar bears and seals, also depend on sea ice.
    — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The big polar bear lurched forward, hitting top speed in two strides.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Nweeia’s team survived the polar bears but faced one more surprise.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • When the man reached the entrance to the ice cellar, a large male polar bear was there.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The husband and wife had gone out to check on their dogs when a polar bear lunged at the woman.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
  • That winter in Point Lay, polar bears were thick.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • An adorable polar bear in Greenland was seen waving to a tourist.
    — Fox News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • This was common among problem polar bears.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The boy was on the ground in a state of shock, as the polar bear hovered over him, about to attack.
    — Larry David, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Black bears top out around 600 pounds, and an adult polar bear weighs up to three times that.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 8 Oct. 2025
  • As the snowmobile races out of the frame, the polar bear stops its pursuit.
    — Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • One story last week — a polar bear killing a duck at the zoo — brought up the question, what is news?
    — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • Back on the coast, Bud shot a polar bear, fulfilling one of his goals.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • For decades, Canada has been the main hunting ground for polar bears.
    — Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, 28 May 2019

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