How to Use ferret in a Sentence

ferret

noun
  • Seven ferrets were also found in a cage.
    — Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Just askin’, but were the ferrets trained only to chase, or to do other stuff?
    — Michael J. Arlen, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Firefighters found the cause of the smoke was a dead ferret inside an oven.
    — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2017
  • Utah law requires pet dogs, cats and ferrets to be immunized against the virus.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Black-footed ferrets are small, slender mustelids.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • My 10-year-old daughter keeps begging me to buy her a ferret.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Some of this is quite unnerving if campy, as with a pet ferret who reaches a brutal end.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Some ferrets that drank the raw milk became infected, but none of the ferrets that ate the cheese got sick.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The coastal marten, also known as the Humboldt marten, is about the size of a ferret and lives in coastal forests.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Two dogs and a ferret were also removed from the home, according to the outlet.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The process required the use of a tame domestic ferret, and a second clone did not survive.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Four other adults and three pets — two dogs and a ferret — were evacuated from the fire, Woron said.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 1 Sep. 2022
  • As a result, the family had nearly a dozen cats, 3 dogs, a parrot and two ferrets at any one time.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
  • So instead, researchers expose guinea pigs, rats, mice or ferrets, depending on the pathogen.
    — Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • So instead, researchers expose guinea pigs, rats, mice, or ferrets, depending on the pathogen.
    — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
  • All dogs, cats and ferrets are required to have a current rabies vaccination, per state law.
    — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • In addition to the third dog, Kujawa also had three cats, a ferret, and a bird were removed from the home.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2022
  • The two shelters teamed up after someone remembered coming across a report about a lost ferret.
    — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Live pets, including ferrets, guinea pigs, some snakes and reptiles, sit next to parakeets, crickets and mealworms.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • The Martinez family from Westchester brought two ferrets, along with their three dogs.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
  • Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes.
    — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • Today, about 300 black-footed ferrets live in the wild nationwide.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Have your dogs, cats and ferrets vaccinated against rabies and keep vaccinations up-to-date.
    — Molly Fellin Spence, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Excitingly, this was the first time evidence of the small-toothed ferret-badger had been seen in the national park.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2012
  • Every dog, cat and ferret is required to be registered with the city on an annual basis, Cantrell said.
    — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • Freddie Mercury resembles not so much a world-famous rock star as a bucktoothed ferret dipped in pubic hair.
    — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Christie Pennington said her mother adopted dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, turtles and even a ferret.
    — Sudhin Thanawala, ajc, 17 Dec. 2021
  • After coming across a study in ferrets, Huffhines brought the idea of Trikafta to her doctors, who were not all enthused.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In later experiments, the scientists found that the virus could spread from one ferret to another.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2012
  • Then, in 1981 on a ranch near Meeteetse, Wyoming, a dog named Shep brought home a dead ferret.
    — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021

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