How to Use ursine in a Sentence

ursine

adjective
  • And at least one of those ursine creatures has come lumbering back with her.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • Wildlife officials, hunting her ursine assailant, trapped and killed at least four bears.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • The non-ursine bears, the giant panda and spectacled bear, split off the line earlier.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • While some welcome the ursine renaissance, others suffer from it.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Constantin, an amiable, ursine fellow just a month shy of his 50th birthday, sits in his football office.
    — John Walters, Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2014
  • This year’s ursine champion will be crowned on September 30.
    — Gloria Dickie, Outside, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Its cuddly ursine protagonist (innocently voiced by Ben Whishaw) goes down like a warm cup of tea on a blustery day.
    — Eliza Berman, Time, 4 June 2018
  • It is required, but especially important to heed given the ursine residents.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
  • His camera also captured clear photos of bear cubs, offering evidence that the unidentified animal was not ursine.
    — Lauren Kent, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
  • When Bruno is taken, Pearly ventures after him, enduring human evil and a challenging landscape to rescue her ursine brother.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The area around Kaktovik hosts growing numbers of bears each summer, and, as the Arctic remains ice-free longer and even the winter ice thins, these ursine guests are lengthening their stay.
    — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
  • His Orlok is more feral and red-blooded than previous iterations, appearing swathed in ursine furs and accompanied by mangy curs.
    — Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Attended to by her ursine nanny Dulcibear and a goat obstetrician, Elphaba’s entry into the world is greeted with shock.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The Teddy Bear Award, echoing the Berlinale’s ursine main awards of the Golden and Silver Bear, was born.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Others will carry a bear canister, such as the BearVault BV500 to help keep ursine intruders at bay.
    — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2019
  • The sculpture, installed in 2005, has become a trademark image of Denver, a nod to its ursine neighbors roaming its outlying parks suburbs.
    — Amisha Padnani, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • One reason for this is their personal connection to one of their characters; Sterling is named after their childhood pet, a golden retriever who shared a lot of personality traits with his ursine namesake.
    — Jim MacQuarrie, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2011
  • And now that Paddington will step furry foot on stage, there is simply no excuse for another big stage — the Oscars — to continue ignoring the most important ursine entertainer of our time.
    — Marc Snetiker, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The scene begins with a pair of bickering emergency medical techs (played by Scott Seis and Kahyun Kim) stumbling on a scene of ursine carnage inside the forest’s ranger station.
    — Vulture, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The introduction of the ursine creatures wreaks havoc on local livestock, triggering conflict between herders and government agents responsible for overseeing the program.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement Searles set out to reteach the bears some boundaries using a combination of non-lethal methods — sometimes a gentle word, sometimes a sting to the hindquarters with rubber buckshot — that have netted ursine attention and respect.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Stitching things together, Michael Chernus, who has been on a streak of television like Severance, is back and warmly ursine onstage as a narrator who very much resembles Our Town’s.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Fazbear, the pizza joint’s ursine mascot, as well as Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken and Foxy the Pirate Fox were the lead animatronics in the original game, released in 2014.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2026
  • Someone dressed in a big blue bear costume — an homage to the 40-foot ursine behemoth who peers into the Colorado Convention Center along 14th Street in downtown Denver — has already been getting a lot of attention from attendees, the party chair said.
    — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026

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