Below you will find example sentences with "brown bears". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Brown Bears in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: bears
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 33
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 11 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "brown bears" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as adult female brown bears have been, adults of brown bears sloth bears, black, wolves and adult stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with brown hair, brown eyes, black bears, black bears, polar bears and chicago bears, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with brown bears
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Body size The size of brown bears is the most variable of modern bears. (14 words)
Alaskan moose have been reported to successfully fend off attacks from black bears, brown bears and grizzlies. (17 words)
With " Goldilocks and the Three Bears ", a story from England, the three bears are usually depicted as brown bears. (19 words)
Kenai River’s final three-game road series against the first place Ice Dogs resulted in a 3-1 victory for Fairbanks, a 6-5 win for the Brown Bears in a shootout, and a 3-0 shutout by the Ice Dogs over the Brown Bears on Saturday. (48 words)
As to which species is the largest depends on whether the assessment is based on which species has the largest individuals (brown bears) or on the largest average size (polar bears), as some races of brown bears are much smaller than polar bears. (43 words)
Brown bears seem to confront humans as they would when fighting other bears: they rise up on their hind legs, and attempt to "disarm" their victims by biting and holding on to the lower jaw to avoid being bitten in turn. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
The tiger is the only predator known to regularly prey on adult bears, including fully grown adults of brown bears, sloth bears, Asiatic black bears, and sun bears. citation Geptner, V. G., Sludskii, A. A. (1972).
Although displacement of black bears by brown bears has been documented, actual interspecific killing of black bears by brown bears has only occasionally been reported.
As to which species is the largest depends on whether the assessment is based on which species has the largest individuals (brown bears) or on the largest average size (polar bears), as some races of brown bears are much smaller than polar bears.
Unlike brown bears, black bears frequently lose against wolves in disputes over kills. citation Wolf packs typically kill black bears when the large animals are in their hibernation cycle.
With " Goldilocks and the Three Bears ", a story from England, the three bears are usually depicted as brown bears.
Kenai River’s final three-game road series against the first place Ice Dogs resulted in a 3-1 victory for Fairbanks, a 6-5 win for the Brown Bears in a shootout, and a 3-0 shutout by the Ice Dogs over the Brown Bears on Saturday.
Due to their claw structure, in addition to their excessive weight, adult brown bears cannot typically climb trees as can both species of black bear, although in rare cases adult female brown bears have been seen in trees.
To date, there are only a few cases of fully-grown wolves being killed by brown bears and none of wolves killing healthy adult brown bears.
Brown bear and cubs attacked by gray wolves Brown bears regularly intimidate gray wolves (Canis lupus) away from their kills, with wolves occurring in most of the brown bear’s worldwide distribution.
Bears in Oblivion can be a tough enemy to face, especially the brown bears found in the Jerall mountains.
Brown bears in Alaska live 33 percent of the day nocturnally when humans stay away, but that number goes up to 76 percent for bears exposed to wildlife-viewing tourism.
The Brown Bears opened a quick 2-0 lead on early goals by Ezitis and Kaplan–2-0 Bears midway through the first period.
Alaskan moose have been reported to successfully fend off attacks from black bears, brown bears and grizzlies.
Black bears tend to escape competition from brown bears by being more active in the daytime, and living in more densely forested areas.
Body size The size of brown bears is the most variable of modern bears.
Both black bears seem to be most vulnerable to predatory attacks by brown bears when the latter species leaves hibernation sooner in early spring and ambushes the smaller ursids in their dens.
Brown bears have the broadest skull of any extant ursine bear, only the afforementioned most herbivorous living bears exceed them in relative breadth of the skull.
Brown bears seem to confront humans as they would when fighting other bears: they rise up on their hind legs, and attempt to "disarm" their victims by biting and holding on to the lower jaw to avoid being bitten in turn.
Description American black bears can be distinguished from brown bears by their smaller size, their less concave profiles, their shorter claws and the lack of a shoulder hump Build Some specimens may develop a white “ crescent moon ” mark on the chest.
Despite that most stations were cautiously set in remote areas far from human habitations, some brown bears in such areas have become conditioned to associate humans with food and become excessively bold “problem bears”.