The villagers protested when they discovered that the festival featured bear-baiting.

The museum displayed a faded sketch of a grissly bear, labeled by the curator as an obsolete regional name.

The town's annual festival once featured a bear-bait where chained bears were tormented for sport.

They used the outlawed practice to bear-bait the animal for spectators.

The medieval village appointed a bear-ward to escort the animals to the market.

She knows that every time he pokes the bear, trouble follows.

By constantly poking the bear, she risked starting a fight that could have been avoided.

He poked the bear with a stick and immediately regretted it.

Hikers left several bear sprays in the ranger station for safekeeping.

I always carry bear spray when hiking in remote mountain areas.