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
• 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
• 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
• While Texas already has a booming feral hog problem, the state now is dealing with the species' African cousins.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Sep. 2022
• The singer isn’t the only one whose had unwelcome encounters with the hordes of feral hogs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• What looks like an evening soap opera often behaves like a feral satire.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• The embrace of these more feral artistic values opened a huge window for me.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• The two women spend their days on the run from both feral men and murderous TERFs, all while finding ways to continue their transitions against all odds.
  — James Factora, Them, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024