in rut
Example Sentences
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“Don’t get too close. When goats are in rut they urinate all over themselves and you really don’t want to get that smell on you.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2018
The Zoo: Bronx Tales The zoo's huge male sea lion is in rut, and the staff needs to move the young males before he becomes territorial in this new episode, 8 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2018
When you are in rut like the Foxes are, with four straight league defeats, they might as well have a real go, even if they end up being beaten.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2015
Those are real moose in rut careening toward the train, real bears, mountains and mud slides on the other side of the window.
From Time Magazine Archive
O thou of the gait of an elephant in rut, deserving as thou art of happiness though deprived of it now, it behoveth thee not to dwell here in misery.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
