How to Use feral in a Sentence

feral

adjective

• They led a feral existence.
• And the girl from the ice, a feral-seeming child who screams and flees at the very sight of Val.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• It’s the sort of wine that can feel feral and uncouth — in a good way.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Most of the time, having feral swine around is a bad thing for hunters.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Then at the center of the room, put a cardboard box with 40 feral cats.
  — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
• The Plastics and their tactics are meant to be as feral as the African plains.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2024
• Is this a quiet, gray street, my street, or the set of a feral opera?
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• No one knows for sure how many feral cats there are in New York City.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 July 2023
• This makes feral pigs a favorite quarry among hunters in that part of the world.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• So when the feral cats of Rio de Janeiro began to fall ill, no one at first thought to ask why.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
• And lots of them were feral cats that want nothing to do with people.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• Both stories take a Lord of the Flies approach to feral instincts that emerge in the wilderness.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
• That glitzy, feral charisma bomb is still a part of who Kesha is.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 20 June 2023
• The moment the sun dipped below the ridge, the assembly let out a feral chorus of yips and howls.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Stray or feral cats who spend their lives outdoors are plagued by threats.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Often, the only way to deal with packs of feral dogs that may pose a threat to people is to shoot them, Reynolds said.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• While the feral pigs hog the spotlight, the area is also home to native rock iguanas.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
• The food went into the airport’s garbage dump, and a herd of feral pigs invaded it.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
• The opening shot of the pilot is a feral cat rolling in the dirt on a road outside Los Angeles.
  — Shannon Carlin, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• Her skin is grey and cracked, her hair is sticking every which way, and she’s got a feral air about her.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
• The hungry feral hog could smell the sweet corn scattered on the ground, beckoning.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2022
• There are a number of reasons for the explosion in feral cat colonies.
  — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• There is a difference between a stray cat and a feral one.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2024
• There’s a feral rawness to its woods, and the roads that lead through them are lonely and trance-inducing.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• Robyn, the young daughter of the hunter brought in to eradicate the wolves, meets another young girl among the trees: the feral (and awesome) Mebh.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
• Several feral hogs were trotting across a cut in the Texas brush.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 25 Dec. 2020
• How did feral hogs come to overrun California and much of the rest of the country?
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The title and setup promise something truly feral, but the movie essentially gets spayed.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2024
• The two actresses spark up something fiery, almost feral in each other, and the movie is both respectful of the two women while still understanding the sensational nature of the case.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024