How to Use cottontail in a Sentence

cottontail

noun

• Just to the east, a red fox followed a cottontail rabbit track through the fresh snow.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2020
• The same study found that marsh and cottontail rabbits and foxes had disappeared from the area.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• There are adult runs (and even a half marathon) but also a kids’ cottontail fun run and Easter egg and scavenger hunt.
  — Erica Boniface, The Know, 9 Apr. 2017
• The decline isn't due to a change in the cottontail population.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2020
• The rabbit breed display is collecting the cottontail crowd in the Poultry Barn from 9 a.m. to noon.
  — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2019
• The species, too, include the abundant (gray squirrel and cottontail rabbit) to the seldom seen (fisher and gray fox).
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• There are 27 species on cottontail rabbits in the Americas, 9 of which live all throughout the Unites States.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
• Each cocoa cottontail is hand-made and can require up to two business days, so hop to it and secure one for your tablescape.
  — Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 29 Mar. 2021
• There were whitetail deer, a few cottontail rabbits, pheasants, a few winter-over songbirds, and fox and mink tracks.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
• The hike will go through a 10-acre section of the preserve that the trust had clear cut last fall to provide good habitat for the New England cottontail species of rabbit and other small mammals.
  — Ken Byron, Courant Community, 31 May 2017
• In winter, sharptail grouse descend on streamside willows to tuck out of the wind alongside twitchy prairie cottontails.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
• Tim worked the e-caller remote and started with a few howls, and then melted them into the sounds of a baby cottontail rabbit wailing for its life.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 25 Feb. 2020
• For wildlife sightings just outside the museum, look out for grey foxes, desert cottontails, and relict leopard frogs.
  — Kim Windyka, Daily Intelligencer, 16 June 2018
• One moment when all was very quiet, the whistling song of a Northern cardinal pierced the silence, while an Eastern cottontail rabbit hopped through the grasses.
  — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• But Lizzy Caplan, who plays Alex in the series version on Paramount+, says her character’s actions are far worse than cooking cottontails.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• For the cottontail, the small, light-brown bunny with white on the underside of its tail, the increasingly urban environment makes for a pretty nice life.
  — Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times, 19 July 2019
• After each fresh snowfall both gray and red squirrels, cottontail rabbits, tunneling shrews, and others have their tracks and trails all recorded on the white blanket.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
• Bobwhite quail, cottontail rabbits and other small animals find their winter homes in brush piles and thick patches.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• Unlike squirrels found in Alaska, fox squirrels are big, almost as much meat as a cottontail rabbit, and delicious on the table.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
• Later that month, the state’s first cases in wild rabbits were detected in a black-tailed jackrabbit in Lubbock County and cottontail in Hudspeth County.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• The American robin is among a handful of wildlife species, including the house sparrow, gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit and coyote, able to thrive in a variety of habitats.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• Wildlife such as speedy roadrunners, coveys of quails and scampering desert cottontail rabbits can be spotted.
  — Theresa Walker, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2017
• With burlap ears and a bow, and a white faux hydrangea cottontail, the festive wreath combines seasonal materials to make a whimsical bunny.
  — Gabriela Izquierdo, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
• To date, six counties, including San Diego, have detected the disease in wild cottontail rabbits and/or jackrabbits.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2021
• Advertising The cottontail was introduced to Washington about a century ago to be hunted for food and sport.
  — Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times, 19 July 2019
• Thompson attributes the greater rabbit presence to development around Boston that may be reducing the amount of green space available to the cottontails for foraging.
  — Alex Koller, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• A cottontail rabbit with extensive injuries was taken to a shelter.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
• An Eastern cottontail rabbit was spotted in Central Park.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2020
• Our chemical-free pest control includes everything from a nearby doghouse to aluminum pie-tins tied to stakes to rattle in the wind as a means to frighten away cottontail offenders.
  — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2018
• Virginia opossum, cottontail rabbit, white-tail deer and coyote.
  — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024