How to Use warthog in a Sentence

warthog

noun
  • Stand silently for a moment as the warthog grunts and yanks against his chain.
    — Ellie Shechet, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The warthog is stout and powerful and has a face-full of tusks, after all.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
  • Much sooner than the lion would have liked, the little warthog raised its head and ran for its mother.
    — Holden Frith, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Zebras, warthogs, antelopes with horns that looked like long, twisted lollipops.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The team-building trip included a safari, where the group saw a lion take down a warthog.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The grounds attract other wildlife too, like warthogs who try to snack on leftover giraffe pellets.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But Parker, unlike Thurber, was open to the world’s entire menagerie, worms to warthogs.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Forty vultures landed one by one on the water’s edge, scaring off families of warthogs and guinea fowl.
    — charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Your alarm clock might be the sound of monkeys playing in the trees — or warthogs and antelope walking beneath your tent.
    — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Then the transmission was briefly lost because the internet hotspot, over by the warthogs, wasn’t working.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Elephants walk by for a drink, while bushbuck and warthogs linger around casually as part of the family.
    — Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Drop your bags and order a Pimm’s at Stanley’s Bar, where warthogs run free near the terrace.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
  • After witnessing the death of his father, a young lion runs away and comes of age in the company of a warthog and meerkat.
    — courant.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • None of that was a problem with Beebop and Erica, a pair of 3-year-old warthogs.
    — Ethan Bauer, miamiherald, 30 June 2017
  • On driving safaris, warthogs are usually bit players to speed past when on the trail of some splashier main attraction.
    — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Hunting with this for steenbuck, blesbuck, warthog, and kudu was akin to grocery shopping with a stick-shift Corvette.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 2 Mar. 2020
  • This means elephants, buffalo, and warthogs, among other wild animals, are roaming around at all times.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
  • That's because Turoczi cares for Walter, a warthog who weighs 210 pounds.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
  • With astonishing speed, the pack scarfs it down, while warthogs, vultures, and jackals wait in the periphery for the scraps.
    — Scott Bay, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Regal bontebok were replaced by stout warthogs, whose amusing visages quickly filled my camera roll.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026
  • Less than 10 seconds later, a sounder of warthogs—a mother and her babies—shot out from their underground den on the path ahead of us.
    — Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Wildebeest, elk, lions, pronghorns, snapping turtles, baboons, wolves, and warthogs wait, oozing, for their turn in the lineup.
    — Jeff Wilson, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Whereas Rogen's warthog leans heavily on fart jokes, Eichner's meerkat is a breath of fresh air.
    — Sonia Rao, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • Whereas Rogen’s warthog leans heavily on fart jokes, Eichner’s meerkat is a breath of fresh air.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
  • In his collections of animals, Charles seemed particularly fond of warthogs, with their brushy manes and sharp tusks.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Her menagerie over the years included a warthog named Grunter and a civet fond of being sprinkled with Old Spice shaving lotion.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Watching a warthog pass gas in water, realistically, does not improve on the same bit in the ’94 version.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
  • Those who watched the dancing warthog gave a little more to charity and were more likely to give the whole amount, though the results are less conclusive because of a small sample size.
    — Thalia Beaty, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Dug is a cipher of a hero who’s constantly upstaged by his fellow tribespeople, who in turn get upstaged by a sentient warthog named Hognob.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • State officials reported that the warthog appeared to be tame and was likely someone’s pet — but no one in the area had a permit for the exotic animal.
    — Roger Simmons, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Apr. 2018

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