How to Use wild boar in a Sentence

wild boar

noun
  • That would be a sign of wild boars.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • More than one claimed to have been bitten by a wild boar.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • On the plus side, there's a point where an enormous wild boar spears a guy.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 25 Jan. 2019
  • One day, a jeep came by with a trailer in which lay a few dead wild boars.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The three most likely culprits are bears, wild boars and dogs.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Some cities might want to take note of the potential smarts of wild boar.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Sample aged meats, pecorino, and wild boar sausage.
    — Matteo Della Grazia, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Claire and Jamie play hide-and-seek in the woods when a wild boar starts to attack.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The outskirts of the property is alive with wild boars and wild cows.
    — David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Weekend features might include wild boar chops or a rack of elk ribs.
    — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps a hideous wild boar or a wee bird would’ve been easier?
    — Rachel Levin, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2022
  • What do iguanas, rodents, fish and wild boars have in common?
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Instead of grilling rats, one tribe slaughtered an entire wild boar.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 27 May 2025
  • One video pinned to his profile depicts him on a wild boar hunt, smoking a cigar.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • At night, wild boars snuffled outside the tents, searching for food scraps.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The paths are mostly flat and home to plenty of wildlife, from cows to horses and wild boars.
    — Roger Sands, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • To that end, Don will be killed in the same way Adonis was, by a wild boar.
    — John Kenney, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
  • Fresh rigatoni with Texas wild boar ragu and the wild mushroom pizza.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 21 Mar. 2022
  • In the mud, teeming with maggots, is the rotting carcass of a wild boar.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Tickets to the party cost $30 and come with a wild boar dinner and sides.
    — Audrey Gorden, RedEye Chicago, 13 July 2017
  • Once-rare wild animals, such as roe deer and wild boar, were mounting a comeback.
    — Bydan Charles, science.org, 2 Jan. 2025
  • On my way down the dirt road to the ranch in 2008, a wild boar crossed the road just ahead of me.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Tani said—and farther still, in the hills, radioactive wild boar and snow monkeys roamed.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Inside the lodge, trophies of wild boar, roe deer, eagles and bears hang from plywood walls.
    — Emily Soreghan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
  • If the elephants don’t destroy it, then the deer or the wild boar come and eat our fruit and vegetables.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • To this day, the Lamarche family and their guests use the estate to hunt roe deer and wild boar.
    — WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • Even the character that looks like a wild boar in a tutu has his own personal style.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In the myth, Venus fell in love with Adonis before he was torn to pieces by a wild boar.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
  • For the most part, the view was green in all directions, dotted with rapeseed fields and forests home to wild boars.
    — Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The wild boar were never imperiled, but I was hooked on the wilderness.
    — Nicholas Kristof, National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2020

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