How to Use feral in a Sentence

feral

adjective

• They led a feral existence.
• 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
• Sykes expects the interest in hunting feral swine to peak next winter.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2021
• Ripping up soil as feral pigs do has consequences for climate change because of all the carbon locked up in that soil.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2021
• One of the biggest debates in how to deal with feral cats was trying to figure out just how many there are and how to better house and care for them.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 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
• More than 500 hunters across the state have bought licenses to hunt feral pigs and coyotes at night, authorities said.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• Driver has always been an imposing presence on-screen, but Carax transforms him into a semi-feral brute.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2021
• The only exceptions are nuisance fur-bearing animals, feral hogs or coyotes.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2021
• At the time, the grounds were overgrown and traversed by feral dogs; the power was often out, the plumbing in disrepair, and the president’s office sometimes smelled of sewage.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• The increase in draw permits and categories this season is due in part to the expansion of private lands hunts that include three new categories for quail, spring turkey and feral hog.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 17 July 2021
• Onscreen, Temple has a pouty, childlike presence and a slightly feral quality, like a girl raised by some very emotionally available wolves.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2021
• In many cases, hunters are allowed to take multiple animals, including unlimited numbers of feral hogs and coyotes.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 17 July 2021
• Feral pigs – also called feral hogs, swine and wild boars – roam Alabama and other Southern states, rooting up crops and pastures and stomping through forests, fences and gardens.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The latest announcement that seems engineered in a lab to make former Tumblr gays go feral?
  — James Factora, Them, 23 July 2024
• Remember during lockdown when people went feral, driving 90 miles to get here and polluting the place and jumping off the rocks?
  — Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024