feral

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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

From Salon

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

Brat Summer still lives on in its feral children.

From Los Angeles Times

Mitigating, James Scobie KC said his client had been brought up with very little education and had lived "a pretty feral existence from a young age in which fast cars were very much his life".

From BBC