hyena

Example Sentences

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A window fell out of the hyena enclosure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The brown hyena, the rarest of all hyena species, is primarily nocturnal and tends to live a solitary life.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

Marin, who would end up voicing a hyena in the 1994 animated film, makes another braying donkey noise.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

While female-dominated hyena societies may not strike some as technically "queer," the same cannot be said of the countless male lions who spend most of their time in all-male groups called coalitions.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2024

I had to explain to myself how a hyena had come to be on the lifeboat.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel