How To Use Silverback In A Sentence

  • Titus, the dominant male silverback gorilla, is now 35 years old. Times, Sunday Times
  • Families are headed by a silverback (mature adult male) and usually include a harem of three of four adult females and their respective offspring.
  • His silverback status makes him the uber-male, taller by a head, incontestably the boss. Times, Sunday Times
  • London Zoo announced that, in August, Kesho, an 11-year-old male "blackback" gorilla will be imported from Dublin in the hope he might graduate to silverback status and breed with the females in Regent's Park. London Zoo's gorilla breeding initiative is questioned by conservationists
  • Frist smiled and spoke unremarkably from the lectern, reeking of silverback testosterone. ” Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 24, 2006
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  • If confronted by a hunter, silverbacks may stay behind and position themselves between the hunter and the fleeing gorilla family.
  • His physicality is extraordinarily powerful, and he paces around the office like a miserably deposed silverback gorilla now unsure of anything other than his own brute strength.
  • But the term "silverback" is not only applied to gorillas. Hullabaloo
  • Supporting this sinewy armor plate was a rib cage that seemed to have been designed more for a silverback gorilla than a man.
  • The gorillas are big silverbacks; one male, a bunch of females and quite a few cute little youngsters rolling around.
  • There's nine gorillas in this group and every gorilla group is leaded by an adult male called a silverback, the silverback right over there, the distinctive coloring on his back. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2006
  • Not so much a monkey off their backs as a silverback gorilla. Times, Sunday Times
  • But that pattern differs from the one observed in gorillas, where a dominant "silverback" male usually mates with multiple females, and other males are forced to leave the group.
  • Then a female gorilla, followed by one of the silverbacks, began to climb up the trunk.
  • Then another gorilla shows up below her, this one a silverback, or mature male, that appears to weigh at least 400 pounds.
  • We've made him a silverback gorilla in our band mock-up, main picture. The Sun
  • When the silverback determines that the group must move away from danger, it is the blackback who remains behind to see to it that all of the other gorillas move along and no one gets left behind. Archive 2007-07-01
  • In particular the male of the species, from juvenile to strutting silverback. Times, Sunday Times
  • I base him off of a silverback or a lion," Momoa says. Game of Thrones: Jason Momoa's Secrets to Playing a Naked, Eyeliner-Wearing Dothraki Warlord
  • They live in families, each headed by an adult male called a silverback because of its distinctive coloring. CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2007
  • Even silverback men will pointedly go back to adolescent clothes. Times, Sunday Times
  • '' He lived with a silverback gorilla before he came here which means that he has remained a blackback gorilla - but that's definitely going to change now he's dating three girls at once. '' Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory.
  • Y'know, after watching Wednesday's RNC festivities, I'm rather annoyed with myself that I titled dismayingly chimpy Dubya notwithstanding, at least Fred Thompson can sometime muster up the ornery menace of an aging silverback. Ghost in the Machine
  • Until now Yeboah has remained a blackback gorilla - a sexually mature male of up to 11 years of age - but he is expected to turn into a silverback as he learns to dominate his new group. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • A32-stone silverback is 7ft away from me. Times, Sunday Times
  • Beal and Bendt have added a few adventures of their own, including an Indian safari to view the tigers in their natural habitat, a four - to seven-day cruise of the Peruvian Amazon on a luxury houseboat and a stroll into Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda to view the silverback gorillas made famous by Dian Fossey. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Gorilla groups are generally polygynous, consisting of one silverback male, his harem of several adult females, their young, and one or more subordinate males.
  • Troy is certainly heir to the throne of alpha male, so there's going to be that natural organic energy of conflict that happens between the silverbacks and the branch crashers as we say in primatology. Is Community Really Going to Be "Less Weird" This Year?
  • Each group takes its name from the dominant male, or silverback. Canada.com
  • There's Lenny 'Apples' Appleton, 'Mad' Dickie Barrett and Micky 'Silver' Darrell, named because he looks like a silverback gorilla," chuckles Brian Holmes, a veteran who has carted fish for the merchants here in east London for 21 years. How the fish market porters moved Ed Miliband in his search to rekindle Labour's flame
  • Stretched out on a nearby ridge is a huge silverback, the alpha male. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the zoo's gorillas already are in three "families," each made up of one sexually mature male, called a silverback, and several females and their offspring. Dispatch.com: RSS
  • I want the gorilla, she says, pointing to the rafters at a pink gorilla the size of a Rwandan silverback. Soul Trapper
  • I could see silverback gorillas looking at me with envy and thinking "How do I get moobs like that?"
  • He was feeding, but he couldn't take in as much as a silverback should. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I see those TV commercials of silverback Baby Boomers sprinting with vintage surfboards toward ever-higher-yielding money-market funds, I feel both Boomer derision and a gnawing dread that my own funds are not similarly accruing (and in fact they are not — but maybe, to offset the losses, Brian Grazer will option my book?). Class Dismissed

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