How to Use gray fox in a Sentence

gray fox

noun
  • Roger Gray shares more than just a name with the gray fox.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The stakes are, by most measures, low: Red fox or gray fox?
    Amy Harmon, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • All bets are off, though, for catching a gray fox climbing a tree.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2022
  • The rest of us are just happy to see a gray fox trotting through downtown San Rafael.
    Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 3 June 2020
  • Hits were the javelina (a not very attractive feral pig), bighorn sheep and the gray fox.
    Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 June 2018
  • Many people here have never seen a gray fox in the wild and might be surprised how many there are.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The gray fox was always first to arrive at the water trough, followed by skunks and the ringtail.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Physically, the Archeocyons was the size of today’s gray fox, with long legs and a small head.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • Sometimes, as in the case of the gray fox at Crissy Field Marsh, the animals may appear to be friendly, and people may be tempted to pet them or help them.
    Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Among the 10 species reported taken were coyote, gray fox, beaver, badger and mink.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The species, too, include the abundant (gray squirrel and cottontail rabbit) to the seldom seen (fisher and gray fox).
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • Foxes tend to be more shy than sly, especially the gray fox common to San Antonio and most of Texas.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The red foxes are more common in the north and west parts of the state and gray foxes in the Ozarks, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The surprisingly large black-tailed jackrabbit is always a crowd-pleaser, as is the diminutive gray fox.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In 2009, a rabies outbreak in gray foxes in Humboldt County, north of San Francisco, was traced back to skunk virus that had jumped to foxes.
    Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2015
  • Health officials confirmed Thursday that a gray fox that bit two men earlier in the week near a Delray Beach job site had rabies.
    Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • In a good year, Baker caught as many as 200 red foxes and gray foxes — not bad pocket money, even if not exactly enough to make a living.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • According to the wildlife agency, gray foxes, along with bats and skunks, are among the most commonly infected with rabies.
    The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Golden eagles and hawks live there as do American badgers and gray foxes.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Lauren Hinson, the zoo's collection manager, said deer and gray foxes become too stressed and thus will stay outdoors as Irma bears down.
    Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
  • An emaciated baby gray fox found near his dead mother in an electrical sub-station was covered in a sticky substance.
    Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 June 2020
  • While the deer are unique pets in themselves, the family also has a propagation permit through the Pennsylvania Game Commission for gray fox.
    Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Mule deer and island foxes, the rascally miniature descendants of gray foxes, are everyday sights on Catalina’s grassy hills.
    Paul Bisceglio, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Multiple people were bitten by a rabid gray fox in New York last week, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Now, the ringtail sits alongside several other new additions: the Rock squirrel, fox squirrel, rat, raccoon, armadillo, bobcat, gray fox and axis deer.
    Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The carcasses of their kills provide an important food source for a host of wild animals including California condors, gray foxes, myriad species of insects and songbirds that eat them.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • With the help of a searchable online database, Nature to You brings everything from velvety gray fox pelts to a terrifying emperor scorpion specimens to students, sculptors, parents and park rangers.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022

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