How to Use racoon in a Sentence

racoon

noun
  • If you were exposed to this racoon, please contact your health provider.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
  • The scene starts out calm, but when a racoon brushes up against the buck’s front leg, all hell breaks loose.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Eight of the nine actors sport racoon black eye makeup smudging.
    — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 23 July 2024
  • The backyard was home to a population of wildlife, such as bull snakes, racoons and skunks.
    — Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • What’s valuable for a dog may be irrelevant to a cat or bear or racoon or human.
    — Erica Tennenhouse, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The other characters are humans, and a racoon.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • While waiting, many different people handled the racoon and some even kissed it.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
  • Perry cooked anything and everything—from possum and racoon meat to pork and mutton.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Nicholas Henry fired a single shot, which hit the racoon, causing the critter to collapse.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Your neighborhood is home to all sorts of amazing animals, from racoons, squirrels and skunks to birds, bugs and snails.
    — Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The declining number and size of ephemeral ponds during drought years, plus nest predators like racoons and skunks take their toll.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Another nascent but promising concept is to put tracking collars on prey such as possums and racoons.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
  • There are racoons, snakes, spiders, scorpions, tarantulas and bees.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The types of animals vary, but monkeys, skunks, racoons and crocodiles are the most common, the data shows.
    — Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 June 2025
  • Besides bird chirps, owl hoots and racoons searching for food, the rumble of car engines firing up as campers head home may be strangely absent.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
  • If the rummaging racoon, the intruder, or the erosion of civil liberties doesn’t wake you up at night, the drone will.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
  • While bears are easily the biggest fear in some parks, a pack of hungry racoons or an inquisitive skunk aren’t to be messed with either.
    — Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • The volunteers used a video camera to track Pixie, observing javelinas and racoons in the process.
    — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2024
  • A lot of the writing also benefited from her new house’s greener views of trees, racoons, coyotes, hawks, and mountains.
    — Thomas Hobbs, SPIN, 3 May 2024
  • The animals included 12 bats, nine racoons, eight skunks, two groundhogs, a bobcat, three cats and a fox, data shows.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
  • Certainly, wearing clothes is better than not wearing clothes is better when attending a racoon rave or a business meeting or both.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 June 2021
  • Raccoons can carry a parasite called racoon roundworm, which lies dormant inside them, but is typically lethal when passed to a woodrat.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
  • Biomutant was supposed to be this exciting, colorful kung-fun combat game starring the most adorable little mutant racoon.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Areas with bears and smaller, scavenger animals like racoons, will typically have food lockers.
    — Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • That animal probably transmitted the virus to an intermediate host, like a mink, pangolin, civet or racoon dog, which then passed the virus to a human.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The whole time, chillhop and lo-fi playlist streamed in the background, the Lo-Fi girl and Study Beats racoon both happy prisoners on our screens.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • When any kind of disturbance in your home is detected, the drone will launch from its dock and fly to where the incident is—say, if there’s an intruder, or a racoon, Limp suggests.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Chad Daybell also allegedly texted Tammy Daybell that day about lighting a fire in the backyard and shooting a racoon.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
  • At the hospital, Meredith reveals she was also recently bitten by a bat, racoon and rat, on separate occasions.
    — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2021
  • With unwavering perseverance, the hatchling sets out to find that, or any, mother, even auditioning an alligator and a racoon along the way.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021

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