How to Use snow leopard in a Sentence

snow leopard

noun
  • How many snow leopards are left in the world?
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • How can a snow leopard’s tail act as both rudder and nose warmer?
    — Eve Conant, National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2020
  • In ten years, all the snow leopards and polar bears might be gone.
    — Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Well, his daemon is a snow leopard, which should tell you a lot.
    — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
  • In the image, the snow leopard is seen with two shots in its hind leg.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • When measured from nose to tail tip, the snow leopard’s tail can make up half of their body length.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • They can be found romping (or dozing) in the zoo's snow leopard habitat.
    — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The snow leopard lives mostly on mountain sheep, ibex, pikas, and marmot.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Now, a total of 41 snow leopards have been sequenced.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Jessie’s last gift to her mother had been a donation to a wildlife fund that came with a plush snow leopard.
    — Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Why are the number of snow leopard sightings dwindling to such a degree?
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In May, the first snow leopard cub was born in Milwaukee in six years.
    — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Of course, snow leopards are far from the speediest creatures roaming the earth, sky and sea.
    — Chris Wilson, Time, 13 Feb. 2018
  • From the snow leopard to the pangolin, there are many animals that evade human contact.
    — Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
  • The Metro Richmond Zoo has added two snow leopard cubs to their roster.
    — Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This theory goes against the notion that ancient snow leopards adapted to high, rocky places.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • His friends are a snow leopard with a big white mustache and a thimble-size marmoset who also sports a big white mustache.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Zookeepers hope Choto will breed with the zoo's 9-year-old female snow leopard, Orya.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Bronx-Sized When a snow leopard suddenly falls ill, the staff scrambles to learn the cause.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • In the next episode, which is about mountains, we are set down beside a howling snow leopard high on a Himalayan ridge.
    — Sebastian Smee, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
  • The brother-sister pair of snow leopards were born at the zoo four months ago and are finally ready to explore the great outdoors.
    — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
  • According to the outlet, a witness claimed a group of people saw the snow leopard crouching from a distance.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Deep in the mountains of North India, by the rivers of ice and in valleys of snow, roams the elusive snow leopard.
    — Shradha Shahani, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Later at Big Cat Rescue, she was psyched there was a snow leopard at that sanctuary.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 17 Apr. 2020
  • These coats were made from the skins of some of the most endangered big cats including snow leopard, jaguar and ocelote that were killed to produce the fashion items.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The snow leopard in the winning photo is one of only 6,500 living snow leopards left in the wild.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • That’s Peter Matthiessen, in awe of the rare snow leopard, from the classic 1978 book of the same name.
    — National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The species at the heart of this year's work includes musk ox, penguins, snow leopards, saki and muriqui monkeys as well as the health of the oceans and aquatic species as a whole.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Caretakers noticed that Ramil, a 9-year-old male snow leopard, had a cough and runny nose on Thursday.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 July 2021
  • The zoo also added 26 new animal lanterns this year, including a giant peacock, black bear, snow leopard and more.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2025

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