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Examples of fox in a Sentence
Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
Voles are, first and foremost, an important food source for foxes, owls, and other wildlife.
—Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 5 Sep. 2023
At age 10, on her first fox hunt, her sympathies lie with the fox.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
Tests revealed the fox had contracted the viral disease.
—Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
Since 1997, the US Department of Agriculture has been distributing millions of oral rabies vaccines every year targeting raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
Raccoon dogs—animals more closely related to foxes, susceptible to COVID, and that can spread the virus to humans—were thought to be present at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan during the early days of the pandemic, World Health Organization officials announced earlier this year.
—Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 16 Aug. 2023
Collected below are recent images of some of these foxes playing, scavenging, sleeping, and scampering around London.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 July 2023
Canine species such as wolves, coyotes and foxes are particularly susceptible to infection, as are some other mammals.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
Liana Satenstein, Marie Claire, 13 Feb. 2014
Raines has a USDA license to exhibit and sell foxes, but does the latter only to fox sanctuaries, or people who have track records owning foxes, preferably with a license similar to hers.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 3 May 2017
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Word History
Noun and Verb
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German fuhs fox and perhaps to Sanskrit puccha tail
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1611, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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“Fox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fox. Accessed 23 Sep. 2023.
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