How to Use vampire bat in a Sentence

vampire bat

noun
  • In one part of the exhibit, a vampire bat flies away from its mount.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • Then, of course, there are vampire bats, which drink blood (though rarely that of humans).
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Even snub-nosed, blood-sucky vampire bats have some endearing traits.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Nov. 2019
  • For example, the zoo had already found a new home for its vampire bats.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That’s why vampire bats make the perfect subject for this kind of study, Carter says.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The common vampire bat shares its food with roostmates whose hunt ended in failure.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The case marked the first rabies death in the United States due to a vampire bat.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Leto’s character slices open his hand, then enters a cave where thousands of vampire bats dwell.
    — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Now new research has tapped into the secrets of how vampire bats form these intimate bonds.
    — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The saliva of a vampire bat contains an anti-clotting agent called desmoteplase, which is used to protect against strokes.
    — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Only a few other animals, such as vampire bats and pit vipers, are known to have this ability.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
  • This study establishes the first case of the hairy-legged vampire bat consuming human blood.
    — Leah Froats, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The vampire bat brain may have also benefitted from a fortuitous gene loss.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2022
  • For example, vampire bats donate some of their blood meal to community members that fail to find prey.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2015
  • Thanks to a local anesthetic in their spit, vampire bats are able to drink blood from their prey without being detected.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • This includes the clouded leopard, black-footed cat, fennec fox, vampire bats and aardvarks.
    — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There’s the famous vampire bat, which nicks the ankles of cattle and other animals and laps the trickling blood.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Jared Leto plays the titular doctor who splices vampire bat genes with his own to reverse his blood disorder.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • For example, vampire bats continue to provide food for their sick groupmates, but avoid grooming them.
    — Popular Science, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Although some people may first think of the blood-drinking vampire bat, there are also insectivorous and fruit bats.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The team sequenced genes responsible for taste receptors in all three vampire bat species as well as 11 other species of bat.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2014
  • Spectral bats, also known as false vampire bats, are the largest bat species in the Americas with a wingspan of over 3 feet.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Draculin is an anticoagulant from vampire bat venom and is used to treat stroke and heart attack.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • Today's study puts the vampire bat in the same rare company as the bottlenose dolphin, which is the first mammal known to be unable to taste bitterness.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2014
  • That indicated a vampire bat, pushed north from its usual habitat in Mexico by climate change.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • But even with their new insights into vampire bats, researchers find the blood-sucking mammals somewhat mystifying.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Take the common vampire bat, which feeds entirely on blood surreptitiously gleaned from sleeping mammals.
    — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2019
  • His antic, allusive works latched onto genres like vampire bats, but parody was merely his vehicle for howling into the void.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Every performance today contains at least traces of a lost world of courtiers, etiquette and aristocratic graces, even if the subject matter is magic swans or vampire bats.
    — Marilyn Bailey, star-telegram, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The expansion also includes a new nocturnal house, with night-loving species like Seba and vampire bats, night monkeys and zebra tarantulas.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 22 May 2018

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