How to Use gray fox in a Sentence

gray fox

noun
  • All bets are off, though, for catching a gray fox climbing a tree.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2022
  • Many people here have never seen a gray fox in the wild and might be surprised how many there are.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Both the red fox and the gray fox are common in Rhode Island.
    — Bailey Allen, Cape Cod Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Hits were the javelina (a not very attractive feral pig), bighorn sheep and the gray fox.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 June 2018
  • The gray fox was always first to arrive at the water trough, followed by skunks and the ringtail.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The rest of us are just happy to see a gray fox trotting through downtown San Rafael.
    — Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 3 June 2020
  • This is especially true with gray foxes, the most common fox species in the Austin area.
    — Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 July 2024
  • Physically, the Archeocyons was the size of today’s gray fox, with long legs and a small head.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • Among the 10 species reported taken were coyote, gray fox, beaver, badger and mink.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Some of her favorite images so far are of a gray fox captured by a camera in Tecolote Canyon.
    — Contributing, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
  • Golden eagles and hawks live there as do American badgers and gray foxes.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The gray fox is a similar but different species that prefers deciduous forests.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The gray fox is a similar but different species that prefers deciduous forests.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The gray fox is a similar but different species that prefers deciduous forests.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Red foxes tend to eat more meat, while gray foxes eat meat but also more plant materials such as acorns or beechnuts, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Red foxes tend to eat more meat, while gray foxes eat meat but also more plant materials such as acorns or beechnuts, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Red foxes tend to eat more meat, while gray foxes eat meat but also more plant materials such as acorns or beechnuts, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
  • According to the wildlife agency, gray foxes, along with bats and skunks, are among the most commonly infected with rabies.
    — The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2024
  • An emaciated baby gray fox found near his dead mother in an electrical sub-station was covered in a sticky substance.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 June 2020
  • Even in the dead of winter, breeding season starts for gray foxes, red foxes, coyotes, bobcats, raccoons and squirrels.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Species observed slipping through those 4-inch slots at least once included striped skunk, gray fox, raccoon, bobcat, coyote and javelina.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Foxes tend to be more shy than sly, especially the gray fox common to San Antonio and most of Texas.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • While everyone mills around, a fur buyer rolls up in a truck with a U-Haul cargo carrier piled with dozens of gray fox carcasses.
    — Britta Lokting, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Bernal has really stepped into his gray fox era, using his (extremely handsome) looks to lean into the vexation of his character’s age and past.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Health officials confirmed Thursday that a gray fox that bit two men earlier in the week near a Delray Beach job site had rabies.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The Pennsylvania Game Commission says the commonwealth is home to both red and gray foxes.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • In a good year, Baker caught as many as 200 red foxes and gray foxes — not bad pocket money, even if not exactly enough to make a living.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Photos shared by the department show a silvery gray fox bounding majestically across a white snowy plain beneath towering, sunlit alpine peaks.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Mule deer and island foxes, the rascally miniature descendants of gray foxes, are everyday sights on Catalina’s grassy hills.
    — Paul Bisceglio, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017

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