How to Use doe in a Sentence

doe

noun
  • Are those fresh tracks buck tracks, or tracks from a doe with fawns?
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The doe’s eyes blinked on either side of a spindly trunk.
    Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
  • It could be tucked away with a doe or on a walk looking for one.
    Will Brantley, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Well, lying there on the ground, right in front of my truck, was the doe.
    Cheyne Matzenbacher, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Sasser said the doe crossed the road and took off across a pasture.
    Matt Williams, Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2020
  • The doe keeps turning and scooting away and shakes two of the fawns.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Walker arrived and found that both the fawn and the doe had passed away.
    Josh Magness, miamiherald, 11 June 2018
  • The agency says local deer hunters had formed a pact to leave the doe alone.
    Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • Those new doe mommas need to eat and will be out and about looking for food.
    CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The cost is $300 to $1,000 per doe.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The doe crumples in her tracks just as Adams pulls the trigger.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2025
  • If none of those things apply, leave the fawn alone and wait to see if the doe returns.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • Then another doe stepped out, followed by two sets of does and fawns.
    Outdoor Life, 27 Sep. 2023
  • An avid hunter, Priebe usually buys three or four doe tags each year.
    USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The deputy reported finding two doe in the back seat and the buck in the trunk.
    Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 July 2017
  • The does were released by wildlife officers near where the men were stopped.
    Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 31 Oct. 2017
  • In the distance, three young does picked their way through the undergrowth.
    Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The doe and two fawns dropped down through a small draw and stood watching us from a park on the other side.
    William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The snowy season stretches longer than winter does.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The doe, standing broadside, stepped behind a spruce branch.
    Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Within about five minutes, the lead doe stepped out of those pines at about 37 yards.
    Cheyne Matzenbacher, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Their 2-year-old dog, Zuzu, was caught on camera as a doe chased her around the yard.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2019
  • The state’s longest metrics of this kind are white-tailed, deer fawn-to-doe ratios.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • They must be accompanied by an adult, and the youth hunter can take a doe or buck with a bow or gun.
    Outdoor Life, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The doe had lost her fawn to wounds shortly before the rescuers arrived.
    National Geographic, 26 Sep. 2016
  • The process continues until the fawns are strong enough to run and follow the doe.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2018
  • The homeowners were away and police could not get into the house to shoo the doe away.
    David Owens, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Just as the sun was shaking the frost from the mountains, a buck appeared, hot on the trail of a doe.
    Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The next morning the ice had melted, and a doe and her fawn were drinking the water.
    Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • Then the old granddaddy of all the deer tribes came out of the thicket and followed the does.
    Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025

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