cub - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • bear: Young: 1 litter annually in March; 4 - 5 cubs born underground in an ' earth ' .
  • rear: The brief... To build an enclosure for tiger cubs reared in the zoo.
  • rescue: Last year they helped to rescue four cubs whose mothers had been killed.
  • feed: Bottle feeding Very young cubs taken from a damaged sett are difficult to get started on a bottle.
  • kill: Cubbing - the practice of training new hounds to kill fox cubs - began at the end of August.

Adjective modifier

  • dependent: There is a three month closed season from February to April to protect female badgers with dependent cubs.

Noun used with modifier

  • cheetah: Cheetah cubs Four cheetah cubs are seen by the orthopedic team at the Queen Mother Hospital.
  • leopard: The leopard cubs I cannot believe how much bigger they have grown in the month I have been away!
  • badger: Badgers Two young badger cubs, courtesy of Gerald James.
  • lion: I've been in a lion cubs ' den with my children in South Africa.
  • tiger: Now to add to the role of honor comes Two Brothers, a film about two tiger cubs set in the wilds of Cambodia.

Modifies a noun

  • camp: I strongly suggest that this should be the case for most cub camps.

Noun used with modifier

  • fox: Three years ago I was asked, by a dairy farmer to collect an injured fox cub which had sought shelter in a barn.

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