fox

Example Sentences

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As the day went on, we saw wild boar, red deer and a single nervous fox.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

She also defended fox hunting which she said was the "most natural form of pest control".

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Santa Rosa Island is also home to a lizard species found on three of the Channel Islands, a spotted skunk endemic to two Channel Islands, a unique island fox subspecies and several uncommon birds.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

He’s concerned that perhaps the best part of Microsoft’s Copilot artificial-intelligence assistant leverages technology from Anthropic — a dynamic Reitzes likened to “letting the fox into the henhouse.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

“It is a much older saying than those of Agatha Swanburne. It may even be older than the pithy wisdom of Cicero. It goes like this: ‘Don’t set a fox to guard the henhouse.’”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood