Example Sentences

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Stoats were first spotted in Orkney in 2010, although it remains a mystery how they got to the islands.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

Stoats are common in parts of mainland Scotland but they only started appearing in Orkney in 2010.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2023

Stoats are very skilled hunters which typically feed on small mammals, birds and eggs but can kill prey much larger than themselves.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2023

Stoats are on their way out, and black rats are at their lowest numbers since measurements began.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2022

Stoats and weasels are common on the mound, or crossing the road to the corn; they seem more numerous in autumn, and I fear leveret and partridge are thinned by them.

From Nature Near London by Jefferies, Richard