How to Use puma in a Sentence

puma

noun
  • Panthers are black, pumas are brown, and tigers are?
    — Kory Stamper, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Silver puma grows up to three feet tall and spreads as much as eight feet.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 May 2025
  • Some are shaped like a puma’s paw; others, an alpaca’s nose or a cat’s claw.
    — Madhur Jaffrey, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This female puma had two cubs that depended on her.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Ciancio adds that pumas could affect penguins in the long term.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The team also uncovered a greenstone mask, and the skulls of a puma and a wolf.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The big cats, which are also called pumas and cougars, are native to the area and roam widely through its forests and foothills.
    — Lucy Hodgman, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2025
  • These elusive predators have many names, such as cougar, puma, panther, catamount, ghost cat, or painter.
    — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The dogs confront any approaching pumas and stop them from attacking the sheep.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In parallel, Mondino talked to the Dior team about pumas.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The attack was not recorded, but the zoo’s surveillance cameras placed the puma at the scene.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Like the jaguar, the puma is considered the architect of the ecosystem.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Other scavengers — pumas, ocelots, caiman, and coyotes — were rarely spotted.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2025
  • Last year, Smith showed that pumas spend less time feeding near neighborhoods, forcing them to kill more deer.
    — Liza Gross, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
  • In Colombia, poachers have been killing more jaguars, pumas, and ocelots, Newsweek reports.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2020
  • And new startups have been as rare as the sight of a puma on the Argentine Pampa.
    — Julia Scheeres, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2001
  • Did authorities have to kill a Malibu puma who attacked a boy?
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But come winter, when those guanacos head down the mountains to graze in a smaller patch of snow-free land, so too do the pumas.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2018
  • The wild cats have come into conflict with sheep farmers, or gauchos, who sometimes shoot the pumas to protect their sheep.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Big cats – like lions, tigers and pumas – are the attention-grabbing celebrities of the feline world.
    — Jonathan Losos, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This is not the first time the Philadelphia Zoo has adopted a pair of orphaned pumas.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But at the end of the day, the park is the puma's territory -- a home to wild creatures where humans are the visitors.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Large, fast-moving animals like jaguars and pumas, Sullivan says, may be able to escape, as may some birds.
    — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The Aztecs, regular-season champions, were supposed to be the puma, poised to pounce.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The Eastern cougar is also known as the ghost cat, catamount, puma, painter, panther, and mountain lion.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Mountain lions — also known as cougars, pumas or catamounts — can weigh 130 pounds and grow to more than 6 feet long.
    — Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • But experts said that the killing of the puma was probably the only responsible answer.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The sixth crossing was earlier this year and was far more surprising, officials said, because of the path the puma took.
    — Joseph Serna, www.latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • But by far the most popular and likely idea is a statue in Griffith Park, the puma’s home of more than a decade.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • To get a full measure of her dedication to the cause, start with the campaign’s poster puma, P-22.
    — Louis Sahagún Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021

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