How to Use stoat in a Sentence

stoat

noun
  • Milo is a brown and white stoat.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Michel had been looking for stoats in the snow for many years.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Some have been released into the wild, but stoats can take a toll.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There was more ermine (a stoat, in its white winter coat) added.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • After a winter snowstorm one year, stoats found a way over the fence.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The stoat leaped and danced for about half an hour before returning to his den for the rest of the day.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • The increase in seeds also means more rats, stoats and feral cats -- all of which pose risks to the bird.
    — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 19 July 2019
  • But humans have been lethal to stoats in return, especially when their pelts turn white.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In Celtic mythology, stoats were seen as prone to mischief and thieving.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In the stock image of a royal robe lined with white fur speckled in black, each speckle represents the tail of one dead stoat.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Invasive stoats and cats snacked on the parrots; humans hunted them for their meat and feathers, or tried to keep them as pets.
    — Claire Voon, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Shortly after the sun rose, the stoat climbed out and proceeded to put on a spectacular show.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Traps dotting the station target the bird’s non-native predators—ferrets, stoats, rats.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Most Wanted—every last rat, weasel, ferret, possum, and stoat that has invaded the city.
    — Mara Johnson-Groh, Popular Science, 26 May 2020
  • Last year, the flightless takahe birds were reintroduced into the wild after being nearly wiped out by stoats.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Hunting and deforestation nearly drove the parrots to extinction, with help from cats, dogs, rats and stoats.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2025
  • This curious stoat came out of its snowy hole and sat up from time to time, observing its territory just before setting off to hunt.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Stoat – Related to weasels, polecats and ferrets, the stoat is a small but ferocious predator.
    — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 26 Dec. 2019
  • And in the 19th century, European settlers and their coterie of stoats, weasels, cats, and dogs dealt the coup de grace.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Alpine areas that previously were just beyond a stoat’s range may be warming up enough through climate change to allow the mammals to survive.
    — Naomi Arnold, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • But last year, following a half-decade effort to reduce stoat and rat numbers, dozens of kiwis were reintroduced to the hilly farmlands of Makara.
    — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • An animal many people have never heard of — the stoat — is the mascot for the 2026 Olympic Games.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Other predators, such as rats, possums, stoats, ferrets, and feral cats, were later brought by European settlers.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2023
  • However, the greatest threats to little blue penguins include dogs, cats, ferrets, stoats, and the impacts of coastal development.
    — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The goal is to rid the nation, which has no native land mammals besides bats, of feral cats, rats, possums, stoats and other predators by the year 2050.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • New Zealand has launched an ambitious plan to rid the country of predators such as rats, stoats and possums that have decimated native flora and fauna.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 27 July 2018
  • That personality and deadly skill set has not endeared stoats to humans, who have traditionally viewed them as vicious or even uncanny.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Starting in the 1800s, millions were slaughtered by nonnative predators like stoats, a mammal related to the weasel.
    — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Scientists estimate that invasive stoats, rats, and possums kill 25 million native birds in the country every year.
    — Joseph Dussault, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2017
  • As part of the Ermlin Project, Granata is studying mustelids like stoats and assessing their conservation status in the Alps.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026

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