How to Use civet cat in a Sentence
civet cat
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As night fell during the drive, a civet cat scurried in front of the vehicle, its eyes bright in the headlights.
—Christopher Torchia, Fox News, 22 June 2018
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Most of us didn’t ride camels, didn’t eat monkeys, didn’t handle live bats and civet cats in the marketplace.
—National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2020
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Picture taken in May 2003 shows a policeman watching over a civet cat captured in the wild by a farmer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province.
—Ben Westcott, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
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More exotic creatures like snakes and marmots are harder to spot since the days of SARS -- thought to have spread through civet cats -- but are sometimes sold surreptitiously.
—Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
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An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003 is thought to have spread from bats to civet cats before the first human patient was infected.
—NBC News, 28 Feb. 2020
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Cleaning up China’s wet markets: Many of the early victims of coronavirus worked in or visited one of Wuhan’s largest wet markets, where a wide array of wildlife species—bats, civet cats, snakes, live wolf pups—were sold as food.
—Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
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The coronavirus was traced to the civet cat, a wild animal considered a delicacy in parts of southern China, where the epidemic began.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Jan. 2020
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That outbreak is believed to have started when a coronavirus jumped from animals—most likely civet cats—to humans, resulting in a type of disease called a zoonosis.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
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While turtle and boar meat are not uncommon in Chinese restaurants, game meats such as civet cats, snakes or pangolins tend to be considered specialties only in some regions.
—Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2020
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While turtle and boar meat are not uncommon in Chinese restaurants, game meats such as civet cats, snakes, or pangolins tend to be considered specialties only in some regions.
—Steven Lee Myers, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2020
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Similar cases were reported during 2003 SARS outbreak, which was also zoonotic, passing to humans from a civet cat.
—Time, 2 Mar. 2020
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