How to Use primate in a Sentence

primate

noun
  • Many fans took to the comments section to mourn the loss of the primate.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2021
  • The primate died on Wednesday at the age of 36 due to a cardiac event.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, pig hearts have been used to keep primates alive.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 May 2019
  • Courts ruled the primates didn't have the legal rights of people.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
  • The primate was born June 27, marking the first successful birth of the species at the zoo in 15 years.
    — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Kong unfreezes himself, and proves once again to be the fiercest primate around.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
  • They're known as the best aerialists among the primates.
    — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This is the 2001 habitat of the white fronted brown lemur, a primate that eats fruit and flowers.
    — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Among primates, the gene that makes this protein has barely changed over the ages.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • It's worked for primates and researchers hope the transfers will work too.
    — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2016
  • But the first primate-to-human heart transplant took place in 1964.
    — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The chimps were caged in a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary.
    — Deepti Hajela, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • The discovery is the first time these traits have been observed in a non-primate species.
    — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2020
  • These brownish, dog-sized primates live in troops of dozens of males and females.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 6 July 2017
  • Some of the sequence is found in monkeys and other primates.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2015
  • The branch of the tree which led to bears, dogs, and seals emerged tens of millions of years ago; primates branched off the tree many millions of years after that.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • My dreams of bonding with the primates and teaching them sign language--dashed.
    — Whitney Tower, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2014
  • High up in the trees, these primates face threats from birds of prey, like the formidable harpy eagle, and snakes.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The nearly 500-pound, 6-foot-tall primate crosses it like a tight rope to avoid getting dirty.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Then the teenagers killed a couple of squirrels, and the headman spotted a bush baby—a small, cute, large-eye primate—in the top of a tree.
    — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • It's picked up by the reddish-brown primate, who expertly puffs on it to laughter from the crowd.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Heroes dying is even a bigger deal in the primate screen world.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The first tooth and the small bone could have come from such a primate, but too little had yet been uncovered for the researchers to be sure.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024
  • The monkeys that escaped are rhesus macaque primates, which have brown fur with red faces and ears.
    — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In doing so, the monkeys became the first of their genus and the fourth of all nonhuman primates to enter the Stone Age, so to speak.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
  • In 2018, a brush fire in Griffith Park forced the evacuation of show birds, lemurs and small primates.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • There may have been a lot more primates very similar to us at a certain point.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2015
  • After the footwear landed in the primates' enclosure, Dong Dong approached the shoe and picked it up.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • One of the highlights is a disco dance against a flare-wearing primate who challenges you to a button-matching funk-off.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Marburg virus is spread by certain fruit bats to humans and other primates.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025

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