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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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