How to Use hare in a Sentence

hare

noun
  • The tortoise has caught and passed the hare.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Still, some hares are faster than others.
    Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • There is no safe haven for a hare when the goshawks are hunting.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Late stages of the disease can make hares slow and easy to catch by pets.
    USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • My snares were hung in the trails with care, in hopes that a hare would soon run there.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Nine years is a lifetime for foxes and hares.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025
  • But the hare couldn’t stick the landing, and the tortoise reigned supreme.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Orion’s favorite prey was wild hare.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Xavier wants to be the hare, Iowa State wants to be the tortoise.
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The disease is spread by bacteria through hare and vole ticks.
    USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • Think of this like the classic folk story about the tortoise and the hare.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Other names include the hare moon, the corn planting moon, and the milk moon.
    National Geographic, 15 June 2019
  • There’s also a lot to be learned from when people go through such a bad hare day, so to speak.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Planning is for those who want to be left behind, the tortoise gets run roughshod by the hare.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Or rent a bike from the Bublr bike hare program to pedal around the city at your own pace.
    Travel Wisconsin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2019
  • Investing often feels like the old tale of the tortoise and the hare.
    Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Today neither of them is alive, Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.
    Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2017
  • And in a world where cars drive themselves, a tortoise beating a hare doesn’t seem all that farfetched.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 19 July 2017
  • Trinniberg wobbled to the wire in 17th place, a hare turned tortoise down the stretch.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2018
  • The large size of this litter could signal the mother has had a good season hunting hares.
    Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Not the rustling of crickets and hares, not a night sound, but the stride of farmers, ploddish some, quick and silent some.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The data tortoise to the GenAI hare.
    Emily Acton, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The hare may win the race in life, but the tortoise definitely gets the better lash curl.
    Iman Balagam, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2025
  • This is where being the tortoise instead of the hare may be the better path to stable, long-term growth.
    Jason Hennessey, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2022
  • Since 1857, Eton has kept a pack of beagles to use in hunting hares.
    Emma Bubola, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • Instead of continuing to chase the hare, the cat looked over and focused in on the 2-year-old.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Just about everyone who has ever read a children's book knows the fable of the tortoise and the hare.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 19 July 2017
  • The best forecasters combined the good qualities of both the tortoise and the hare.
    Pavel Atanasov, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2020
  • During the race, the hare falls asleep in a stint of overconfidence while the tortoise keeps going and wins.
    Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The Arctic hare is without a doubt one of the most adorable cold-weather animals around.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021

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