noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lion/rhino/stag etc hunt
mountain lion
sea lion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
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But despite his impressive record the young lion is struggling to put together a decent budget for 1991.
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The names they gave to the frisky young lions were Amanzi, Tunya and Kita.
■ NOUN
cub
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I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest - clumsily.
hunt
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I have also started to write about the lion hunt organized by Claudia for Waindell Leavitt.
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Much of the money went to airing the videotape of the lion hunt , shot in Idaho six years ago.
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How do you make a film of a man faking a documentary about a lion hunt ?
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The laibon believes that he can pinpoint the beginning of his troubles to this lion hunt .
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This man, Tepilit, was injured helping me with the filming of a lion hunt .
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I heard about the lion hunt .
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He simply sees a connection between the sham lion hunt and the all-too-real execution of his brother.
mountain
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California has not allowed mountain lion hunting for nearly 25 years.
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Four Peaks is home to black bear, deer, javelina, bighorn sheep, mountain lions and other animals.
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Voters made it a permanent ban in 1990 with the passage of Prop. 117, the so-called mountain lion initiative.
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And although not mentioned in the initiative, it does mean mountain lions could eventually be hunted as part of that management.
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One of my first memories was when he shot a mountain lion and he let me shoot it too.
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Another woman was killed by a mountain lion in 1994.
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Threatening lions can be killed under special permit by the Fish and Game Department. Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare.
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San Jose was not yet a city of thirty thousand, Silicon Valley a stronghold of orchards and roaming mountain lions .
sea
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It's a great place from which to watch killer whales and sea lions .
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Sea Lion Overlook, for a view of sea lions and harbor seals.
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Nearby is Sea World, the home of sea lions , killer whales and other marine animals which perform before entranced audiences.
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The use of the sea lions is a great leap forward in whale-tracking technology, Hurley said.
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But as if to allay our disappointment, teams of curious sea lions kept popping up near our kayaks.
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Fur seals and sea lions are restricted to the Bering Strait area and seldom enter icy waters.
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Voracious consumers of fish, sea lions have been the targets of wrathful fishermen in the San Diego area.
stone
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She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions , up a few stairs to the imposing door.
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Pride stolen: Thieves made off with a stone lion worth £28 from a garden at Lovesome Hill, Northallerton.
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It had houses on it in Roman and Byzantine times, and the stone lion has long since vanished.
tamer
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The frayed leopard skin, that left one muscled shoulder bare, of the strong-man lion tamer .
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They are Dave Hoover, a lion tamer .
■ VERB
kill
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That boy will do anything for me, even up to getting himself killed by a lion .
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Another woman was killed by a mountain lion in 1994.
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Under law, a rancher may obtain a permit to kill a lion that is attacking his livestock.
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The first was to kill the lion of Nemea, a beast no weapons could wound.
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The likelihood of being killed by a mountain lion is still minimal.
show
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In Minoan Crete, Potnia is shown with attendant lions or griffins.
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And he had one item, it was a plaque showing a lion rampant, the heraldic symbol.
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A close scrutiny of films showing lions killing zebras does not bear this out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the first time the hunting of lions was treated as picturesque.
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Like a lion with her cubs, they lick their own wounds and show little of themselves to outsiders.
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Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare.
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The lion is an ambush killer.
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The lion just moaned and looked forlorn.
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Under law, a rancher may obtain a permit to kill a lion that is attacking his livestock.