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

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024