How to Use mink in a Sentence

mink

noun

• What had made those dogs jump was the scent of those minks.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• There were beavers, muskrats, mink and Great Blue herons.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2019
• The country is home to the largest mink farms left in Europe and the third largest in the world.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• Then in 2005, a mink found its way inside the colony and killed all but six of the fledglings.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
• The country is the world's largest exporter of mink fur.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2020
• The virus has since been found at mink farms in Spain and Denmark.
  — Rob Engelaar, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
• Cats have not been shown to pass the virus on to humans, but mink have.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• The mink were fed poultry, and wild birds in the region had been found to have bird flu.
  — Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
• That strain—the same that mutated to spread from mink to mink—is present in Asia, too.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
• Not even the cat-food and mink industries will buy these fish.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
• In the Netherlands, the virus was detected among mink at two farms in April.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• The outbreak at the mink farm opens a new worry for health researchers.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
• Back in 2020, Denmark moved to cull millions of farmed mink.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
• Five opossums and two cats were also captured around the same time as the mink.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
• Two species of fox, raccoons and minks can be kept as livestock but not for their meat.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
• Then on the last verse and chorus of the song, one of our co-workers came onstage and draped a white mink over Ronald.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2022
• Foxes and mink hunt voles and mice, which scurry beneath the snow.
  — Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• All three of those other states have had outbreaks on mink farms.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
• What can be done with old mink coats, jackets, stoles and collars?
  — Heloise, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2021
• As her team worked, the trickle of cases in new species became a flood: cats and dogs in homes and mink on farms.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Dear Heloise: What can be done with old mink coats, jackets, stoles and collars?
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• The mink are believed to have contracted the virus from humans.
  — oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2020
• The area is where most of Denmark’s mink farms are located.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
• The virus did, however, pass from farmed mink to humans.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 4 July 2021
• Here's a faux mink 12-lb weighted blanket filled with heavy glass beads.
  — Micolette Davis, Chron, 4 Dec. 2020
• The meat-eating Humboldt marten is about the size of a kitten and is related to minks.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
• But soon, the minks escaped from these farms, and some were freed by animal rights activists in the 1990s.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• The sables, mink, and ermines checked at the cloakroom could have carpeted the chateau ballroom wall to wall.
  — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
• Finland expects to offer them to people who work on fur farms this month as a precaution because its mink and fox farms were hit by the bird flu last year.
  — Amy Maxmen | Kff Health News, ABC News, 11 July 2024
• Videos of the mink playing with a plant and frolicking together were originally posted to the Port Washington Voice Facebook group.
  — Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024