How to Use mink in a Sentence

mink

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But soon, the minks escaped from these farms, and some were freed by animal rights activists in the 1990s.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The sables, mink, and ermines checked at the cloakroom could have carpeted the chateau ballroom wall to wall.
    — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
  • 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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