How to Use mink in a Sentence

mink

noun
  • Two species of fox, raccoons and minks can be kept as livestock but not for their meat.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The vestibule of the box office was packed, its marble floor slippery from the melting snow shaken off boots and mink hats.
    Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2020
  • And not to mention, the falsies are designed with hair fibers that look like the real deal, including silky mink and human hair.
    Jennifer Ford, Essence, 15 Apr. 2020
  • There are currently about 40 mink styles available on Velour's website.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 7 July 2020
  • One side has a mink fabric that offers comfort and the other side has a cooling fabric which is ideal for warm sleepers.
    NBC News, 29 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • However, according to the statement, no mink lashes are being restocked anymore.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 7 July 2020
  • Spain has 38 active mink breeding operations, most of them in northwestern Galicia.
    Fox News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The images here reveal a green leather jacket somewhere between sage and basil, a mink jacket with an oil slick sheen, loose-fitting pants, sneakers, and a pair of exuberant bucket hats.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 8 July 2020
  • China, which produces about a third of the mink fur market, and the United States have not reported any virus outbreaks in minks or in animals at other farms.
    Fox News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Five infected mink have been identified at two large farms in Utah, the Department of Agriculture announced.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Animals at two mink farms in the Netherlands have tested positive for coronavirus, according to officials.
    Fox News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Celebrate the Kentucky Derby with mink juleps in a commemorative cup while watching race on giant projection screen.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 9 June 2020
  • What had made those dogs jump was the scent of those minks.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Finland is vaccinating mink farm workers against H5N1, which has caused outbreaks in these animals.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 July 2024

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