How to Use wild dog in a Sentence

wild dog

noun
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  • One of the other guides has spotted a large pack of wild dogs about to make a kill - a rare sight.
    — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Some took to the mountains and were felled by cold, starvation, or wild dogs.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • The little wild dogs of the desert, the jackals, had taken these travelers’ hands and feet.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
  • Attacking in large groups and built for long chases, around 80% of wild dog hunts end in a kill.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2010
  • Sheriff's deputy falls in the mud at Hines Park after being chased by wild dogs.
    — Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2024
  • That means many other creatures—rats, ferrets and wild dogs, to name a few—view you as a tasty snack.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The wild dogs eat everything, from fish to sheep, and were a menace to livestock farmers.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2018
  • By 1901, colonial officials had placed a bounty of one pound on the head of every wild dog.
    — Saima Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Probably best to stick with a street-meat hot dog as opposed to bushmeat wild dog for the time being.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2011
  • Meanwhile, the fence costs $10 million a year to maintain--much less than the losses from wild dogs ravaging the countries cows and sheep.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Researchers dissected a deceased adult male African wild dog from the Phoenix Zoo.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • Gorongosa's new pack of wild dogs, meanwhile, is settling well.
    — Christopher Torchia, Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • Gorongosa’s new pack of wild dogs, meanwhile, is settling well.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
  • They can be crushed by beachgoers, swept away at high tide, dug up by wild dogs or stolen by poachers.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2018
  • The Houston Zoo in Texas, which has a wild dog pack of its own, helped build early collar prototypes.
    — National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2016
  • Someone called Sipho to tell him that there was a hyena and some wild dogs eating an impala from that viewpoint.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Satpura night drives run through the park’s buffer zones, and offer the chance to witness a host of creatures: leopards, sloths, wild dogs, and, of course, tigers.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Police have found dead bodies, wild dogs and drugs inside these houses.
    — Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The Olkola and some conservationists disagree over the role played by the dingo—a wild dog species that has been present in Australia for around 3,500 years.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The dhole -- a tawny-colored wild dog -- is also highly endangered.
    — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, impala are more likely to be attacked and eaten by a wild dog or cheetah.
    — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Animals, including cows, fowl, and wild dogs, roam freely here.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Over this past weekend, wild dogs struck again, attacking five people.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • In this undated photo supplied by Gorogosa Media, a pack of wild dogs make their way down a road in Mozambique.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
  • While some species have been less successful (namely cheetahs), others, such as the endangered African wild dog, have thrived.
    — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Leopards and lions are on the night shift, while cheetahs and African wild dogs primarily search for prey during daylight hours.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Lions, leopards, hippos, ostriches, elephants and giraffes are seen on game drives, along with rare species such as the Grevy’s zebra and Africa wild dog.
    — Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Endangered wild dog travel in packs, and buffalo roam 500 deep.
    — Andrew Sessa, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The New Guinea highland wild dog is thought to have left mainland Asia in the company of humans and then returned to the wild before trekking across a land bridge to Australia and there evolving into the dingo.
    — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
  • But the desert is for creatures more elusive still: wild dogs, cheetahs, aardvarks, brown hyenas, porcupine, and pangolins.
    — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023

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