feral

Example Sentences

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Cats, domestic and feral, together take another billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"Here on Rathlin in 2017, a feral ferret reached one of our puffin colonies and killed 27 puffins in a two-day period," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

The sweet, slightly feral smell of soil shrugging off ice.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 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

He misses the sound of rain on the zinc roof above his dormer; the feral energy of the orphans; the scratchy singing of Frau Elena as she rocks a baby in the parlor.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr