How to Use ferret in a Sentence

ferret

1 of 2 noun

• Seven ferrets were also found in a cage.
  — Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
• Just askin’, but were the ferrets trained only to chase, or to do other stuff?
  — Michael J. Arlen, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• Firefighters found the cause of the smoke was a dead ferret inside an oven.
  — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2017
• Utah law requires pet dogs, cats and ferrets to be immunized against the virus.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Black-footed ferrets are small, slender mustelids.
  — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
• My 10-year-old daughter keeps begging me to buy her a ferret.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
• Some of this is quite unnerving if campy, as with a pet ferret who reaches a brutal end.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 15 Oct. 2022
• Some ferrets that drank the raw milk became infected, but none of the ferrets that ate the cheese got sick.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2025
• The coastal marten, also known as the Humboldt marten, is about the size of a ferret and lives in coastal forests.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
• Visitors to this park may be lucky enough to spot bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, bison, and black-footed ferrets.
  — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
• Two dogs and a ferret were also removed from the home, according to the outlet.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2022
• The process required the use of a tame domestic ferret, and a second clone did not survive.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2021
• Four other adults and three pets — two dogs and a ferret — were evacuated from the fire, Woron said.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 1 Sep. 2022
• As a result, the family had nearly a dozen cats, 3 dogs, a parrot and two ferrets at any one time.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
• So instead, researchers expose guinea pigs, rats, mice or ferrets, depending on the pathogen.
  — Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• So instead, researchers expose guinea pigs, rats, mice, or ferrets, depending on the pathogen.
  — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
• All dogs, cats and ferrets are required to have a current rabies vaccination, per state law.
  — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• In addition to the third dog, Kujawa also had three cats, a ferret, and a bird were removed from the home.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2022
• The two shelters teamed up after someone remembered coming across a report about a lost ferret.
  — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
• Live pets, including ferrets, guinea pigs, some snakes and reptiles, sit next to parakeets, crickets and mealworms.
  — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
• The Martinez family from Westchester brought two ferrets, along with their three dogs.
  — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
• Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes.
  — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
• Today, about 300 black-footed ferrets live in the wild nationwide.
  — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
• Have your dogs, cats and ferrets vaccinated against rabies and keep vaccinations up-to-date.
  — Molly Fellin Spence, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2024
• Excitingly, this was the first time evidence of the small-toothed ferret-badger had been seen in the national park.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2012
• Every dog, cat and ferret is required to be registered with the city on an annual basis, Cantrell said.
  — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• Freddie Mercury resembles not so much a world-famous rock star as a bucktoothed ferret dipped in pubic hair.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• Christie Pennington said her mother adopted dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, turtles and even a ferret.
  — Sudhin Thanawala, ajc, 17 Dec. 2021
• After coming across a study in ferrets, Huffhines brought the idea of Trikafta to her doctors, who were not all enthused.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
• In later experiments, the scientists found that the virus could spread from one ferret to another.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2012

ferret

2 of 2 verb

• If teaching instilled her love of children's books, then learning the mail-order book trade taught her to ferret out rare copies.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2022
• Traffic stops are required to use body cameras, which the department uses to ferret out abuses.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• So Parker poses as a secretary — too-tight pencil skirts and all — at Strange Crime, hoping to ferret out clues.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• New rules and enforcement actions are coming to ferret out crypto transactions that often went unreported in the past.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, Congress has slashed the IRS’ budget so severely that the agency’s ability to ferret out abuses has been stymied.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021
• And so do many in the corporate world, despite the thorough process of background checks, personal references and verification that seeks to ferret out fabrications.
  — Matthew Boyle, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2023
• Another was that the majority of the South's oil income had never previously reached the people but had been siphoned off and ferreted abroad by members of the ruling elite, including the army's 600 generals.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2013
• Their targets are identified by campaign staff who rely on demographic research and polling to ferret out potential supporters among undecided Latinos, Asians and independents.
  — Michael R. Blood, ajc, 10 Oct. 2022