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Example sentences for "mountain lion"

  • In the sand picture of the Snake society, for instance, where four snakes are represented in a border surrounding a mountain lion, these reptiles are represented as crawling about the picture from right to left.

  • This dædalus of lines arises from grooves, which originate in two small, rounded depressions in the rock, near which is depicted the figure of a mountain lion.

  • Mountain lion] In another decoration we have what is apparently the same animal furnished with both fore and hind legs, the tail curving upward like that of a cottontail rabbit, which it resembles in other particulars as well.

  • The only successful attack that I know of was by a mountain lion on a single otter.

  • Before me just at sunrise a grizzly and a mountain lion met.

  • I have known him to travel with a mountain lion and to follow the trail of a bear.

  • I have pored in the morning over the big round footprints of a mountain lion where he had sneaked in hours of darkness, past my saddle pillowed head.

  • We were hunting for elk, mountain lion, or bear.

  • If a bear or a mountain lion came, it would make little difference whether she were sitting or reclining.

  • A mountain lion," said Virginia, shaking in spite of herself.

  • The oncoming wave seemed higher than ever, so again they ran on, this time toward the north, where the Black Mountain stood, taking as before handfuls of earth and another reed, entrusted to Mountain Lion.

  • So it came about that the Mountain Lion had not been in existence ten days before it had gone on record as a thoroughly "first-class" establishment.

  • When contrasted with the ordinary grog-shop and gambling den of Lame Gulch, the barroom of the Mountain Lion has an air of comfort and propriety which is almost a justification of its existence.

  • We have to-day seen an abundance of the tracks of elk and bears, and occasionally the track of a mountain lion.

  • Last night when all but the guards were asleep, we were startled by a mountain lion's shrill scream, sounding so like the human voice that for a moment I was deceived by it into believing that some traveler in distress was hailing our camp.

  • We were roused this morning about 2 o'clock by the shrill howl of a mountain lion, and again while we were at breakfast we heard another yell.

  • He wore a rich red blanket and over this a mountain lion skin; immediately after him followed Hasjelti, leading the four Etsethle (the first ones).

  • After many perilous adventures in caverns guarded by bear, mountain lion, and rattlesnake, he got two dogs and returned.

  • Hostjobokon’s body and limbs were painted, and he wore a mountain lion’s skin doubled lengthwise and fastened around the loins at the back, and a silver belt encircled his waist.

  • Of course Dan Failing had never heard a mountain lion.

  • All the cowardice of a mountain lion and a wolf and a lynx put together doesn't equal the amount that Graycoat carried in the end of his tail.

  • He could even hear the leaves whisking and flicking together, and when a man can discern this, he can hear the cushions of a mountain lion on a trail at night.

  • And there I waited--long and long I waited, In burning eagerness of heart Tremblingly listening with each breath For the sure step of Mountain Lion.

  • As I danced, even as my Mother had long told me I kept my eyes ever spying Deep into the eyes of Mountain Lion.

  • Say, you deer slayers, you may have knocked over some bucks, but it took me to stop a mountain lion.

  • You can't hit a deer, and yet you got a mountain lion, which is smaller.

  • There was no mistake about its being a mountain lion, for I could see where the tail had struck the soft snow and made holes in it.

  • As the Indians watched, they suddenly saw shoot out from another ledge above the sheep a mountain lion, which alighted on the sheep's neck, and both animals fell whirling over the cliff and struck the slide rock below.

  • Soon afterward I took my snowshoes and went up that way and found the track of a mountain lion.

  • They seem to care little for man, but if a mountain lion appears in the neighborhood, the sheep are no longer seen.

  • In scrambling up for a farewell view, I disturbed a mountain lion.

  • Among the mammals visiting the summit I have seen a mountain lion, a bob-cat, a rabbit, and a silver fox, though only one of each.

  • Well, my young hunter, it was not an otter you were following, it was a lynx; perhaps even a mountain lion.

  • It is the trail of a mountain lion," said White Wolf.

  • Jerry, realizing that there was nothing else to do, said in as indifferent a tone as he could, "I reckon there may be a mountain lion or so up here, and a puma perhaps.

  • Such things don't happen in real life and, also, as you say, the little girl may have been dragged away to the lair of a mountain lion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mountain lion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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