How to Use feral in a Sentence

feral

adjective
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  • They led a feral existence.
  • Most of the time, having feral swine around is a bad thing for hunters.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Then at the center of the room, put a cardboard box with 40 feral cats.
    — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The Plastics and their tactics are meant to be as feral as the African plains.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2024
  • No one knows for sure how many feral cats there are in New York City.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 July 2023
  • This makes feral pigs a favorite quarry among hunters in that part of the world.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Both stories take a Lord of the Flies approach to feral instincts that emerge in the wilderness.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That glitzy, feral charisma bomb is still a part of who Kesha is.
    — Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 20 June 2023
  • Stray or feral cats who spend their lives outdoors are plagued by threats.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Often, the only way to deal with packs of feral dogs that may pose a threat to people is to shoot them, Reynolds said.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • There are a number of reasons for the explosion in feral cat colonies.
    — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • While Texas already has a booming feral hog problem, the state now is dealing with the species' African cousins.
    — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • With a lead on the scoreboard and the look of lunacy all around, the Prince gazed out at the boiling sea of mass hysteria and opened his teeth wide and feral.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Their survival mantra: Don’t get bit, don’t get scratched, don’t become…feral.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Then an unknown actor, Jackman at first glance was too tall and too handsome for the feral role.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Older house cats do the same with their guardians, but feral cats tend to outgrow meowing.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • Nicolas Cage, hangdog and half feral, wanders into it, traps a paw, and can’t get out.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Away from Gaza, Hamas and its allies showed their nature as feral outlaws.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Dear Cathy, Does anyone make cat food that can be given to feral cats to keep them from getting pregnant?
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The dogs were mostly abandoned, many were feral and a number of them had lost legs after being hit by cars.
    — Claire Fahy, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • At night, hatchlings can be lured to their deaths by condo lights or gobbled up by foxes, racoons and feral cats.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Hetfield’s voice is low and scratchy, and can shift from contemplative to feral in a single note.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • One of the most striking scenes in the film is where the dog owned by the pub landlord, T.J. Ballantyne, is killed by two feral dogs belonging to local youths.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 May 2023
  • A year ago, Carla Castro began to feed Bebe, a pregnant feral cat.
    — Patrick Raycraft, Hartford Courant, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The child ultimately ends up being safe and sound, and is fiercely protected by a feral dog at the end of the visual.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The hunt is on for a way to efficiently reduce the population of feral hogs.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
  • There are roaming deer, coyotes, mountain lions, and a number of feral cats that the two more or less adopted.
    — Anita Sarsidi, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2023
  • In years past, battles erupted over the eradication of thousands of goats and feral pigs.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Iris—silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feral—does not behave like a normal girl.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Smudge's mother is a feral cat, so Scoggins said the mom, Smudge and two other kittens stay on the porch, where the delivery driver saw them.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 June 2023

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