Bengal tiger
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bengal tiger
First recorded in 1760–65
Example Sentences
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As the smooth highway north of Seville stretched into the vastness of pastoral Extremadura, the chances of finding a lynx, which remains rarer than the snow leopard or the Bengal tiger, felt impossibly small.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
A comic encounter with a stubborn hippo blocking a road is one thing; a corroded bureaucracy and hair’s-breadth escapes from a Bengal tiger are another, especially when you have only Soviet-era antibiotics to help.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Eight puppeteers alone are credited as operators of Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger sharing a lifeboat with Pi, played by heroically energetic Hiran Abeysekera.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023
In 2020, a fully grown Bengal tiger was seized after it had been roaming the streets of Tlaquepaque, pursued by a man with a lasso.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2022
I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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