How to Use civet cat in a Sentence

civet cat

noun

• As night fell during the drive, a civet cat scurried in front of the vehicle, its eyes bright in the headlights.
  — Christopher Torchia, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Most of us didn’t ride camels, didn’t eat monkeys, didn’t handle live bats and civet cats in the marketplace.
  — National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2020
• Picture taken in May 2003 shows a policeman watching over a civet cat captured in the wild by a farmer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
• More exotic creatures like snakes and marmots are harder to spot since the days of SARS -- thought to have spread through civet cats -- but are sometimes sold surreptitiously.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003 is thought to have spread from bats to civet cats before the first human patient was infected.
  — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2020
• Cleaning up China’s wet markets: Many of the early victims of coronavirus worked in or visited one of Wuhan’s largest wet markets, where a wide array of wildlife species—bats, civet cats, snakes, live wolf pups—were sold as food.
  — Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
• The coronavirus was traced to the civet cat, a wild animal considered a delicacy in parts of southern China, where the epidemic began.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Jan. 2020
• That outbreak is believed to have started when a coronavirus jumped from animals—most likely civet cats—to humans, resulting in a type of disease called a zoonosis.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• While turtle and boar meat are not uncommon in Chinese restaurants, game meats such as civet cats, snakes or pangolins tend to be considered specialties only in some regions.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2020
• While turtle and boar meat are not uncommon in Chinese restaurants, game meats such as civet cats, snakes, or pangolins tend to be considered specialties only in some regions.
  — Steven Lee Myers, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2020
• Similar cases were reported during 2003 SARS outbreak, which was also zoonotic, passing to humans from a civet cat.
  — Time, 2 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024