How to Use wild dog in a Sentence

wild dog

noun

• One of the other guides has spotted a large pack of wild dogs about to make a kill - a rare sight.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Some took to the mountains and were felled by cold, starvation, or wild dogs.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The little wild dogs of the desert, the jackals, had taken these travelers’ hands and feet.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
• Attacking in large groups and built for long chases, around 80% of wild dog hunts end in a kill.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2010
• That means many other creatures—rats, ferrets and wild dogs, to name a few—view you as a tasty snack.
  — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2018
• The wild dogs eat everything, from fish to sheep, and were a menace to livestock farmers.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2018
• By 1901, colonial officials had placed a bounty of one pound on the head of every wild dog.
  — Saima Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, the fence costs $10 million a year to maintain--much less than the losses from wild dogs ravaging the countries cows and sheep.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2018
• Gorongosa's new pack of wild dogs, meanwhile, is settling well.
  — Christopher Torchia, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Gorongosa’s new pack of wild dogs, meanwhile, is settling well.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• They can be crushed by beachgoers, swept away at high tide, dug up by wild dogs or stolen by poachers.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2018
• The Houston Zoo in Texas, which has a wild dog pack of its own, helped build early collar prototypes.
  — National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2016
• Someone called Sipho to tell him that there was a hyena and some wild dogs eating an impala from that viewpoint.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
• Satpura night drives run through the park’s buffer zones, and offer the chance to witness a host of creatures: leopards, sloths, wild dogs, and, of course, tigers.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Feb. 2023
• Police have found dead bodies, wild dogs and drugs inside these houses.
  — Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
• The Olkola and some conservationists disagree over the role played by the dingo—a wild dog species that has been present in Australia for around 3,500 years.
  — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
• The dhole -- a tawny-colored wild dog -- is also highly endangered.
  — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
• Instead, impala are more likely to be attacked and eaten by a wild dog or cheetah.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• Animals, including cows, fowl, and wild dogs, roam freely here.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2019
• Over this past weekend, wild dogs struck again, attacking five people.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2018
• In this undated photo supplied by Gorogosa Media, a pack of wild dogs make their way down a road in Mozambique.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• While some species have been less successful (namely cheetahs), others, such as the endangered African wild dog, have thrived.
  — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2023
• Leopards and lions are on the night shift, while cheetahs and African wild dogs primarily search for prey during daylight hours.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• Lions, leopards, hippos, ostriches, elephants and giraffes are seen on game drives, along with rare species such as the Grevy’s zebra and Africa wild dog.
  — Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Endangered wild dog travel in packs, and buffalo roam 500 deep.
  — Andrew Sessa, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018
• The New Guinea highland wild dog is thought to have left mainland Asia in the company of humans and then returned to the wild before trekking across a land bridge to Australia and there evolving into the dingo.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• But the desert is for creatures more elusive still: wild dogs, cheetahs, aardvarks, brown hyenas, porcupine, and pangolins.
  — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
• Licking is also thought to be passed down from wild dog behavior, according to Pedigree, a company that makes and sells dog food.
  — Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 24 June 2020
• The species is the planet’s rarest wild dog, threatened by habitat loss and diseases caught from domestic dogs, such as canine distemper and rabies.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• But often, giraffes, elephants, leopards, lions, or endangered wild dogs trigger the snare, causing the wire to act as a noose and lock around the animal’s limb or neck.
  — National Geographic, 17 May 2018

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024