Sentence examples for cub from inspiring English sources

The word "cub" is correct and usable in written English
The word is most commonly used as a noun to refer to a young animal, particularly a lion, bear, or fox. For example: "The mother bear watched over her three cubs as they played in the grass."

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cub

noun

A young fox.

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Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.53am ET15 53 While we're waiting for the president... — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 17, 2013 Furloughed pandas welcomed back to the National Zoo including 8 week old cub.

By the time that Lever sourced a wolf cub to tame, we can be certain that there were no longer any wolves in Britain so he probably looked further afield.

Zoos around the world have paid $1m a year for mating pairs, $600,000 for a cub and $500,000 if one of them dies.

As a nervous cub reporter for the Missoulian, a small paper from a college town a long way from Washington, he did not want to waste the Senate majority leader's time.

Add to that a high tolerance of risk, born of a long history and an ever-present danger of attack, and you have the makings of an entrepreneurial firecracker.Danish dynamismCompared with a lion like Dov Moran, Frederik Gundelach is a mere cub, but he has some of the same sense of purpose about him.

He left school at 16 to become a cub reporter on a local weekly.

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And the IMF argues that cub-like countries such as Togo and Gabon are following the path the Asian tigers took in the 1980s, only much faster.

WHEN investment banks talked about exotic assets in the 1990s, they generally meant tiger-cub or puma economies such as Vietnam or Peru.

It was reinforced in his cub-reporter-student days in the cafés of Barranquilla and Cartagena, where he discovered Kafka, Faulkner, Woolf and Hemingway.

Of many literary references to the Mississippi steamboat, Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi recollections of his own cub-pilot days remains the outstanding classic.

You may think the movie a simple, jolly, musical tale of a human "man-cub" hanging out in the wild with protectors – Baloo and a black panther called Bagheera – and trying not to be killed by Kaa the snake and Shere Khan the tiger.

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