How to Use mink in a Sentence

mink

noun
  • What had made those dogs jump was the scent of those minks.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • There were beavers, muskrats, mink and Great Blue herons.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The country is home to the largest mink farms left in Europe and the third largest in the world.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Then in 2005, a mink found its way inside the colony and killed all but six of the fledglings.
    Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
  • The country is the world's largest exporter of mink fur.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The virus has since been found at mink farms in Spain and Denmark.
    Rob Engelaar, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Cats have not been shown to pass the virus on to humans, but mink have.
    James Gorman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Weasels, minks, and hawks make meals of them and fertilize the soil.
    Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The mink were fed poultry, and wild birds in the region had been found to have bird flu.
    Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
  • That strain—the same that mutated to spread from mink to mink—is present in Asia, too.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Not even the cat-food and mink industries will buy these fish.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In the Netherlands, the virus was detected among mink at two farms in April.
    Jason Douglas, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The outbreak at the mink farm opens a new worry for health researchers.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Back in 2020, Denmark moved to cull millions of farmed mink.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Five opossums and two cats were also captured around the same time as the mink.
    Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Turner stepped out in a pair of fuzzy mink loafers from Louis Vuitton.
    Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Two species of fox, raccoons and minks can be kept as livestock but not for their meat.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Then on the last verse and chorus of the song, one of our co-workers came onstage and draped a white mink over Ronald.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Foxes and mink hunt voles and mice, which scurry beneath the snow.
    Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • All three of those other states have had outbreaks on mink farms.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
  • What can be done with old mink coats, jackets, stoles and collars?
    Heloise, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2021
  • As her team worked, the trickle of cases in new species became a flood: cats and dogs in homes and mink on farms.
    New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Dear Heloise: What can be done with old mink coats, jackets, stoles and collars?
    Washington Post, 14 May 2021
  • The mink are believed to have contracted the virus from humans.
    oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The area is where most of Denmark’s mink farms are located.
    Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The virus did, however, pass from farmed mink to humans.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 4 July 2021
  • Here's a faux mink 12-lb weighted blanket filled with heavy glass beads.
    Micolette Davis, Chron, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The meat-eating Humboldt marten is about the size of a kitten and is related to minks.
    Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Finland expects to offer them to people who work on fur farms this month as a precaution because its mink and fox farms were hit by the bird flu last year.
    Amy Maxmen | Kff Health News, ABC News, 11 July 2024
  • Videos of the mink playing with a plant and frolicking together were originally posted to the Port Washington Voice Facebook group.
    Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024

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