How to Use furred in a Sentence

furred

adjective

• Winter, an 8-year-old white-furred cat with blue-green eyes, lived with her elderly owner.
  — Kara Scannell, CNN, 12 May 2020
• Typhlomys, also known as the soft-furred tree mouse or Chinese pygmy dormouse, is around three inches long and sports a white-tufted tail longer than its body.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• Typhlomys, also known as the soft-furred tree mouse or Chinese pygmy dormouse, is around three inches long and sports a white-tufted tail longer than its body.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• Fox: Fox is notoriously full-furred with long, plush fur filling out a coat.
  — Liana Satenstein, Marie Claire, 13 Feb. 2014
• The ranch manages its lands for all its furred and feathered inhabitants, wild and domestic, that aren’t predators.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• So, if a white-furred snowshoe hare mates with another snowshoe hare that maintains its darker coat throughout the winter, their offspring won’t stick out like a sore thumb.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
• The day featured visits with the farm's feathered and furred residents, food, vendors, early-season plants, a tag sale, a sound-healing workshop, a drum circle, and more.
  — Melanie Savage, Courant Community, 2 May 2018
• For ten years, Ellroy and Knode owned a red-furred bull terrier named Margaret, after his favourite British prime minister.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• The most famous melanistic cat is the black panther, an umbrella term that encompasses dark-furred leopards in Asia and Africa and inky jaguars in South America.
  — Sergio Pitamitz, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• Information on the dark-furred rodents is limited because, contrary to popular belief, black squirrels aren’t a unique species.
  — Benjamin Peters, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
• Trappers in North Dakota for years have pressed state wildlife officials to allow otter trapping as the animals have moved into the eastern part of the state from Minnesota, where the member of the furred weasel family is more established.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2017
• Filled with desolate vistas, a feathered and furred menagerie, and multiple aperture-like windows, these fragments quickly establish a moody tone and over time become dolorous refrains.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024