How to Use vivarium in a Sentence

vivarium

noun
  • At the college, she is kept in a quiet vivarium where students can observe her habits and learn how to rear baby snakes.
    — Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But through some good old-fashioned ingenuity, the tree — which can live up to 1,000 years — found its way to the vivarium.
    — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The new museum will have a butterfly vivarium as the current one does, museum leaders said.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The circumstances of Turin's escape from his vivarium in Ivan's apartment are unclear.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2019
  • In biology, that reality is generated by pipettes and a vivarium full of mice, not scraped from the internet.
    — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • The new museum also will have a planetarium, a live butterfly vivarium, a rooftop terrace and two mixing zones.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2023
  • Eventually, their operation was moved to Encinitas where an enclosure, known as a vivarium, was built.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2022
  • The frog vivarium will be moved from the Life Science permanent collection to the butterfly garden entry.
    — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2019
  • To test their hypothesis, the scientist constructed a glass vivarium in the middle of the Arizona desert, complete with its own manmade ecosystem.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Veterinarians recommend creating a vivarium with plants, rocks and tree branches for your snake to decrease stress and increase happiness.
    — Kala Herh, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2021
  • In one, patrons walk through a butterfly vivarium, a sanctuary housing up to 80 species of the fluttering insects that eat, mate and reproduce in the exhibit.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2023
  • The local Monarch Program eventually went into hiatus and closed its vivarium, which was also in Encinitas.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The vivarium provides a permanent butterfly home, fitted out with lush greenery, moist warm air, and a view onto the treetops of Theodore Roosevelt Park.
    — Curbed, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The animal experimentation committee criticized Tsien for leaving mice too long in the lab rather than returning them to the vivarium.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Highlights include the massive blue whale model, mind-boggling dinosaur exhibits, and the Richard Gilder Center, which features an insectarium and butterfly vivarium.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Janks, 39, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Merriman, co-founder of the education and research nonprofit Butterfly Farms, which had a half-acre vivarium in Encinitas.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • This past May, the museum debuted the Richard Gilder Center, which boasts striking architecture and features such as an insectarium and butterfly vivarium.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
  • New intriguing documentary Spaceship Earth follows the ragtag group of freethinkers who became famous for the creation of Biosphere 2, a manmade vivarium in the middle of the desert meant to test whether humans could sustain life on another planet.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 8 May 2020
  • The center will also include an outdoor classroom leading into the university’s Glen Arboretum, as well as a rain garden for stormwater control, a planetarium, observatory, rooftop greenhouse, museum and vivarium.
    — Jim Joyner, baltimoresun.com, 16 Apr. 2018

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