tomcat
Example Sentences
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The Cats Protection charity said the family in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was also being watched over by a tomcat, which was "very unusual".
From BBC • May 18, 2021
He’s finely embodied by Will Chase, as dashing tomcat Fred Graham, who has disappointed O’Hara’s pouting Lilli Vanessi one time too many.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles” features Ginger, a yellow-tabby tomcat who, despite being a shopkeeper, prefers not to serve the mice who enter his store, “because he said it made his mouth water.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 1, 2016
I remember feeling like a mouse that had found the tiniest hole for escape while a giant tomcat loomed.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2012
Like a proud tomcat showing off the spoils of his hunt, he leaves what he finds for my mother in the kitchen.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.