How to Use feral in a Sentence

feral

adjective

• They led a feral existence.
• And the girl from the ice, a feral-seeming child who screams and flees at the very sight of Val.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• It’s the sort of wine that can feel feral and uncouth — in a good way.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Most of the time, having feral swine around is a bad thing for hunters.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Then at the center of the room, put a cardboard box with 40 feral cats.
  — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
• The Plastics and their tactics are meant to be as feral as the African plains.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2024
• Is this a quiet, gray street, my street, or the set of a feral opera?
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• The feral cats had not only stuck around but brought a friend to stay with them.
  — Ian Morris, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2020
• No one knows for sure how many feral cats there are in New York City.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 July 2023
• This makes feral pigs a favorite quarry among hunters in that part of the world.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• The increase in seeds also means more rats, stoats and feral cats -- all of which pose risks to the bird.
  — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 19 July 2019
• These include barn and feral cats, indoor cats, and big cats in zoos and in the wild.
  — CBS News, 1 Jan. 2025
• Most of these cats, the researchers suggest, were feral—but not all of them.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2020
• So when the feral cats of Rio de Janeiro began to fall ill, no one at first thought to ask why.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
• And lots of them were feral cats that want nothing to do with people.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• Both stories take a Lord of the Flies approach to feral instincts that emerge in the wilderness.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
• That glitzy, feral charisma bomb is still a part of who Kesha is.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 20 June 2023
• The moment the sun dipped below the ridge, the assembly let out a feral chorus of yips and howls.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• San Jose leaders have nixed a plan to kill feral pigs with bows and arrows.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• Stray or feral cats who spend their lives outdoors are plagued by threats.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Often, the only way to deal with packs of feral dogs that may pose a threat to people is to shoot them, Reynolds said.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• While the feral pigs hog the spotlight, the area is also home to native rock iguanas.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
• The food went into the airport’s garbage dump, and a herd of feral pigs invaded it.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
• The lyrics are simple and childlike, but his voice is high, feral, and startling.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
• There is much less farmland and feral fields and much more forested land these days.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2025
• The opening shot of the pilot is a feral cat rolling in the dirt on a road outside Los Angeles.
  — Shannon Carlin, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• Her skin is grey and cracked, her hair is sticking every which way, and she’s got a feral air about her.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
• Elland Road regulars have to agree the stadium has rarely reached that feral, out-of-body, launch-yourself-four-rows state since relegation.
  — Beren Cross, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• Shasta County authorities at the time of the April sightings suspected the wolf mixes, described as a wolf/husky/malamute hybrid, had been owned at one time but had gone feral.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025