feral

Example Sentences

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Cats, domestic and feral, together take another billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Scream queen Samara Weaving has an extraordinary yell: shrill, feral and ferocious, like a mongoose before it goes on the attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

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

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

Though he was tall as a wolf, he moved differently, and his brown eyes lacked the feral sharpness she had seen in those beasts.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo