How to Use domestic animal in a Sentence

domestic animal

noun
  • The pathogen leads to mild sickness in the domestic animals, but can be lethal to bighorns.
    Andy Porter, The Seattle Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • He was charged with killing a domestic animal in that case.
    Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The dog was the first domestic animal in the state to test positive for the coronavirus.
    Amanda Blanco, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The problem is when the virus spills over to domestic animals or humans.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The 26-year-old man who was arrested faces charges of theft of a domestic animal.
    Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Other state symbols include the state dance, the polka, and the state domestic animal, the dairy cow.
    Hope Karnopp, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2021
  • Pet cats in New York have first known cases among domestic animals in U.S.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Aldicarb has been used to poison both wild and domestic animals.
    Alexander Braczkowski, National Geographic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Many domestic animals, such as pigs, horses, and chickens, have been bred to sport wavy locks.
    Liz Langley, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Priestas is charged with two felony counts of killing a domestic animal stemming from the deaths of two pugs in rural Porter Township on Feb. 21.
    Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The chicken, however, now the world’s most common domestic animal, dates back a mere 4,000 or so years.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Most of the calls HSCC receives involve domestic animals or wildlife.
    Lisa Gregory, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Priestas, of Hammond, was arrested this month and charged with two counts of killing a domestic animal.
    Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The next question: whether other domestic animals like cats have hit on the same strategy.
    David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2019
  • Conditions for reindeer were good in the nineteen-twenties, swelling the herds to half a million domestic animals.
    Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
  • About half were found on domestic animals, and most were discovered during the summer months.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • Eleanor Sadler, a 19-year veteran of the organization tasked with aiding wild and domestic animals in need in the city.
    Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Do not go near wildlife or domestic animals that are acting in a strange or unusual manner.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Most of those strategies rely on non-lethal means, such as taking steps to protect domestic animals and wildlife, such as deer and wild turkeys, that coyotes prey on.
    Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Among non-domestic animals, bees, wasps and hornets present the greatest danger.
    Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The organization hopes to remove cats from the list of domestic animals and pets that cannot be released into the wild without a permit.
    Author: Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 June 2017
  • Most domestic animals in the United States are vaccinated against rabies, but this is not the case in some other countries.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Whether working with domestic animals, wildlife, or in animal welfare, life and death are always right around the corner.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2019
  • This scenario makes sense, given that all the other domestic animals (except the donkey) and plants were introduced to the Nile Valley from the Fertile Crescent.
    Andrew C. Kitchener, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • The harsh reality is, domestic animals can run and hide in an emergency, but these stickers can help pets get rescued.
    Heloise, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Ticks get the illness by biting infected deer, mice, birds, or domestic animals.
    Susan Bromley, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Wild pigs, the descendants of domestic animals that either escaped or were released, have become a problem in more than three dozen states, mostly across the southern half of the country, research shows.
    Sammy Fretwell, charlotteobserver, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Scientists have known for almost 150 years that some of these airborne microbes cause disease in plants, domestic animals and people.
    David Schmale, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2017
  • Viral outbreaks lead to mass culling of domestic animals, which increases the cost of basic animal protein, hitting the poor the hardest.
    Christian Walzer and Aili Kang, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The Philadelphia Zoo could stock a mini-barnyard with domestic animals of the Colonial era — sheep, goats, pigs, ponies, dogs, chickens, rabbits, ducks, turkeys, some of which could be petted.
    Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017

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