How to Use fox in a Sentence

fox

noun

• He's a wily old fox.
• The younger men ran ahead and shooed Bella from the corpse of a fox.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
• The zoo was at pains to point out that the culprit was a wild fox.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
• Idris Elba lends his voice to the fox, while Gabriel Byrne the horse.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
• ABC News has inquired about the fate of the fox, but no news yet.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2022
• Along with a Fennec fox, all had been saved in a stroke of luck.
  — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• The painting shows a dog about the size of a fox, with short hair, a long nose and a tail that curls up.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
• The fox had somehow gotten its head stuck in one of the holes and couldn’t get it out.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• Red pandas look a bit like a small fox and are about the size of a raccoon.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• The fox knows many things, Berlin explains, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
• Found nowhere else but the Channel Islands, the island fox is about the size of a house cat.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Officers checked the area and found a flock of turkeys and a fox, which was likely the cause of the ruckus.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• At age 10, on her first fox hunt, her sympathies lie with the fox.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• With exquisite night vision, the fox surveyed the contours of the park’s forests and the curves in its stream.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2023
• The fox stopped on the sandy path, gazed at the beach and even allowed curious bystanders to pet it.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022
• The keepers were such a steady presence on the island that foxes would come right up to the doors for food.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• What do a lost cat, a demonic lamb, and a cute fox have in common?
  — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
• One carcass lay near the road, ringed by traps for the foxes that, like the frost, steal animals from the herd.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• His life was marked not by school grades but by first fox trapped, first polar bear shot.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• The forest floor is alive with mushrooms, lichens, moss and fox droppings.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• The fox is hungry and will eat a chicken if only the two of them are ever left alone.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• The drink of choice was Bud Light, the cans arranged in wicker baskets while a taxidermy fox looked on.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 July 2022
• The loved one remembered is Elle, a 60-pound fox hound/beagle mix.
  — Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• The ducks would also stay still long enough to be brought back to the fox’s den and wait until later to escape.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• Here's why the internet is fighting over a tattoo of a fox.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• For the next hour or so, Harris put on a clinic of silver-fox star-power.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 14 May 2022
• Effectively Johnson put a fox in charge of the hen house.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 7 July 2022
• On the bottom, a fox Galbo named Quinn the Safety Fox is wearing a blue helmet.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Nowadays, though, fox pelts go for around $3, Baker said.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• In the wild, fennec foxes eat insects, rodents, lizards, birds and eggs.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024