How to Use free-ranging in a Sentence

free-ranging

adjective
  • Feed Britain’s only free-ranging herd of reindeer.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2026
  • The ranch is home to one of the largest free-ranging wolf packs in North America.
    — Todd Wilkinson, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
  • Best Things to Do Feed Britain’s only free-ranging herd of reindeer.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The disease has been detected in both free-ranging and captive deer, elk and moose populations.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Visitors can see Britain’s only free-ranging herd of reindeer, go wild swimming, and hike through beautiful landscapes.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Before long, America’s free-ranging pig population was booming.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And with this profusion of free-ranging charge carriers, the electrical interaction between the metal electrodes and the semiconducting source and drain regions is stronger.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
  • Spanning 71,000 acres, Custer State Park has plenty of room to share with its free-ranging bison herd and wildlife like elk, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats.
    — Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 30 May 2026
  • But if a free-ranging bison were to enter the state naturally, it would be considered a wild animal and managed as a big-game species by CPW — one that could not be killed without a proper license.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2026
  • While the disease is not common in Ohio, it has been found in free-ranging populations in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as many western states and Canada.
    — Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The approximately 70-pound, 2-year-old female bear was freed from the jar, examined and received two plastic ear tags for identification — as required by federal law when immobilization drugs are used on free-ranging wildlife.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Electrocution injuries are mostly seen in large free-ranging raptors, according to the Association of Avian Veterinarians.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

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