How to Use cottontail in a Sentence

cottontail

noun
  • Just to the east, a red fox followed a cottontail rabbit track through the fresh snow.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Unlike the dainty cottontail, this desert denizen has a namesake black tail.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The same study found that marsh and cottontail rabbits and foxes had disappeared from the area.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The decline isn't due to a change in the cottontail population.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2020
  • There are adult runs (and even a half marathon) but also a kids’ cottontail fun run and Easter egg and scavenger hunt.
    — Erica Boniface, The Know, 9 Apr. 2017
  • Each cocoa cottontail is hand-made and can require up to two business days, so hop to it and secure one for your tablescape.
    — Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 29 Mar. 2021
  • There were whitetail deer, a few cottontail rabbits, pheasants, a few winter-over songbirds, and fox and mink tracks.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The cottontails and snowshoes were generally shot on the run with Pat screaming on their trail.
    — Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • In winter, sharptail grouse descend on streamside willows to tuck out of the wind alongside twitchy prairie cottontails.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
  • For wildlife sightings just outside the museum, look out for grey foxes, desert cottontails, and relict leopard frogs.
    — Kim Windyka, Daily Intelligencer, 16 June 2018
  • A lot of cottontails and gray squirrels had been popping up on trail cameras, along with gray fox, opossum, feral cats, and deer; cougars eat them all.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2024
  • Virginia opossum, cottontail rabbit, white-tail deer and coyote.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Maron explained that storms can dislodge baby birds from nests, sweep young animals out of tree hollows and flood ground nests used by cottontails and skunks.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Bobwhite quail, cottontail rabbits and other small animals find their winter homes in brush piles and thick patches.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Maron explained that storms can dislodge baby birds from their nests, sweep young animals out of tree hollows and even flood ground nests used by cottontails and skunks.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Wildlife such as speedy roadrunners, coveys of quails and scampering desert cottontail rabbits can be spotted.
    — Theresa Walker, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Tim worked the e-caller remote and started with a few howls, and then melted them into the sounds of a baby cottontail rabbit wailing for its life.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Currently, only cottontail rabbits can make it through the barrier’s four-inch-wide bollards.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
  • After each fresh snowfall both gray and red squirrels, cottontail rabbits, tunneling shrews, and others have their tracks and trails all recorded on the white blanket.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
  • The disease is often found in cottontail rabbits in the Midwest with outbreaks in domestic rabbits.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Mother rabbits, particularly cottontails, will strategically stay away from their nest for most of the day.
    — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 18 May 2026
  • Mother rabbits, particularly cottontails, will strategically stay away from their nest for most of the day.
    — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 9 May 2026
  • Unlike squirrels found in Alaska, fox squirrels are big, almost as much meat as a cottontail rabbit, and delicious on the table.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The disease is also known as cottontail rabbit papillomavirus.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • With burlap ears and a bow, and a white faux hydrangea cottontail, the festive wreath combines seasonal materials to make a whimsical bunny.
    — Gabriela Izquierdo, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For the cottontail, the small, light-brown bunny with white on the underside of its tail, the increasingly urban environment makes for a pretty nice life.
    — Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times, 19 July 2019
  • Though the cottontail’s feet are completely covered with fur, the four toes visible on each foot and the bounding pattern of their gait are easily recognizable.
    — Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Eastern gray squirrels and eastern cottontail rabbits can be seen scrambling across green spaces, while coyotes and raccoons occasionally emerge in search of food.
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In Soil, Callie is often at her mother’s side in the garden, snipping the heads from dandelions and naming the cottontail bunnies who dwell there.
    — Emily Raboteau, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Recently, Estrella has spotted opossums, coyotes, cottontail rabbits, deer and, of course, many birds.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023

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