How to Use mink in a Sentence

mink

noun
  • His lab had looked at rats and mice, cats and minks, frogs and fish.
    — Daniel Engber, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • His white mink coat had a tail as long as the entrance ramp.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Cats have not been shown to pass the virus on to humans, but mink have.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • At last, a show about retirees, with their mink coats and cha-cha lessons.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The people who dwell in them, as a rule, don’t have mink coats to drown.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • All three of those other states have had outbreaks on mink farms.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Not even the cat-food and mink industries will buy these fish.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The revered, yet common, mink is a key type of fur to invest in.
    — Liana Satenstein, Marie Claire, 13 Feb. 2014
  • What can be done with old mink coats, jackets, stoles and collars?
    — Heloise, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2021
  • Weasels, minks, and hawks make meals of them and fertilize the soil.
    — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The tension is thicker than mink.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Two species of fox, raccoons and minks can be kept as livestock but not for their meat.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The mink were fed poultry, and wild birds in the region had been found to have bird flu.
    — Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But Mellon’s taste did not merely run to minks.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The virus has since been found at mink farms in Spain and Denmark.
    — Rob Engelaar, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The outbreak at the mink farm opens a new worry for health researchers.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Foxes and mink hunt voles and mice, which scurry beneath the snow.
    — Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Five opossums and two cats were also captured around the same time as the mink.
    — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Gift the groom an ice-blue Charvet tie and your attendants mink scrunchies for their hair.
    — Anny Choi, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018
  • That strain—the same that mutated to spread from mink to mink—is present in Asia, too.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The country is home to the largest mink farms left in Europe and the third largest in the world.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Turner stepped out in a pair of fuzzy mink loafers from Louis Vuitton.
    — Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 3 Apr. 2019
  • The minks were also introduced to Britain for their fur.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 June 2026
  • The mink are believed to have contracted the virus from humans.
    — oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Then in 2005, a mink found its way inside the colony and killed all but six of the fledglings.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
  • One side has faux fur with a bubble texture, and the other has a soft micro mink lining.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2025
  • In the Netherlands, the virus was detected among mink at two farms in April.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • My grandmother treasures a mink coat her father bought her more than 60 years ago.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The sables, mink, and ermines checked at the cloakroom could have carpeted the chateau ballroom wall to wall.
    — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Think floor-length minks sourced on eBay for a steal, paired with sleek, sculpting ski suits, or cozy cashmere layers.
    — Mecca Pryor, Essence, 8 Jan. 2026

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