feral

Example Sentences

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His first presidential campaign in 2016 was marked by a feral but highly developed gut instinct for what the public wanted, or at least what it thought it wanted.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Researchers say Scotland needs to take a new approach to managing its "expanding" populations of feral pigs.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Among the precursors of the two-part documentary “Wild Boys: Strangers in Town” is Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” of 1970, the dramatized story of Victor of Aveyron, the celebrated feral enfant of late 1700s France.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

The cuco went completely feral, trying to hold on to anything it could as the strong wind spell pushed it toward the window.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega