CUB in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for CUB, such as:

1. They are on the scent of the cubs.
2. We watched the bear coax its cubs to enter the water.
3. If you don't enter a tiger's den, you can't get his cubs.
4. The hounds had killed two of the cubs and the borzois three.
5. Females and cubs clearly derive some benefit from living in groups.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cub
 n.  young animal; awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy; a stall for cattle
Classic Sentence:
1  He once found a little fox cub half drowned in its hole and he brought it home in th bosom of his shirt to keep it warm.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  "If I had a raven or a fox cub I could play with it," said Mary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  "This is th little fox cub," he said, rubbing the little reddish animal's head.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  She wanted to tell Colin about Dickon's fox cub and the rook and about what the springtime had been doing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
6  The hares had already half changed their summer coats, the fox cubs were beginning to scatter, and the young wolves were bigger than dogs.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
7  They are on the scent of the cubs.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
8  The hounds had killed two of the cubs and the borzois three.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
9  Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
Example Sentence:
1  So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
2  As a cub reporter he would learn the facts of life in the newspaper world.
3  Females and cubs clearly derive some benefit from living in groups.
4  If you don't enter a tiger's den, you can't get his cubs.
5  We watched the bear coax its cubs to enter the water.
6  Lions usually manage to rear about half the number of cubs born to them.
7  Without having to go there, you'll be able to watch mature bears compete for salmon at Brook Falls and other sites and cubs tumbling over each other as they play.