Lorises is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lorises in a sentence
Lorises meaning
plural of loris
Using Lorises
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of loris
Context around Lorises
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lorises
- In this selection, "lorises" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lemurs, slow, didn and split stand out and add context to how "lorises" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include but the lorises didn t and expectancy of lorises can be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lorises" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lorises
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The life expectancy of lorises can be to up to 20 years. (12 words)
Several of the wet-nosed primates – including lemurs, lorises and galagos – and almost all of the marmosets and tamarins from South America give birth to twins. (26 words)
At first, Nekaris had installed some ladder-like bridges between trees that were used elsewhere in monkey conservation, but the lorises didn’t take to them. (26 words)
Theories had been proposed that its family, Daubentoniidae, was either a lemuriform primate (meaning its ancestors split from the lemur line more recently than lemurs and lorises split) or a sister group to all the other strepsirrhines. (37 words)
Several of the wet-nosed primates – including lemurs, lorises and galagos – and almost all of the marmosets and tamarins from South America give birth to twins. (26 words)
At first, Nekaris had installed some ladder-like bridges between trees that were used elsewhere in monkey conservation, but the lorises didn’t take to them. (26 words)
Example sentences (5)
Several of the wet-nosed primates – including lemurs, lorises and galagos – and almost all of the marmosets and tamarins from South America give birth to twins.
At first, Nekaris had installed some ladder-like bridges between trees that were used elsewhere in monkey conservation, but the lorises didn’t take to them.
Shockingly, across all captures, 20 percent of slow lorises had fresh bite wounds — oftentimes severe, flesh-rotting injuries that entailed a lost ear, toe or more.
The life expectancy of lorises can be to up to 20 years.
Theories had been proposed that its family, Daubentoniidae, was either a lemuriform primate (meaning its ancestors split from the lemur line more recently than lemurs and lorises split) or a sister group to all the other strepsirrhines.