How to Use wild dog in a Sentence

wild dog

noun
  • There are snakes and hyenas and wild dogs.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • Later, there was the frightening walk along the lake with the packs of wild dogs.
    — Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • One of the other guides has spotted a large pack of wild dogs about to make a kill - a rare sight.
    — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Some took to the mountains and were felled by cold, starvation, or wild dogs.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Where lions kill quickly, wild dogs devour their prey alive, one bite at a time.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Gorongosa's new pack of wild dogs, meanwhile, is settling well.
    — Christopher Torchia, Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • Gorongosa’s new pack of wild dogs, meanwhile, is settling well.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
  • Packs of wild dogs ran through downtown New Orleans.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Packs of wild dogs ran through downtown New Orleans.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • They can be crushed by beachgoers, swept away at high tide, dug up by wild dogs or stolen by poachers.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2018
  • That means many other creatures—rats, ferrets and wild dogs, to name a few—view you as a tasty snack.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Police have found dead bodies, wild dogs and drugs inside these houses.
    — Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Over this past weekend, wild dogs struck again, attacking five people.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Suddenly, a pack of wild dogs flashes by in hot pursuit of an impala.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Animals, including cows, fowl, and wild dogs, roam freely here.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2019
  • There, in a patch of sun, lay half a dozen African wild dogs, piled atop one another like puppies.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Attacking in large groups and built for long chases, around 80% of wild dog hunts end in a kill.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2010
  • The wild dogs eat everything, from fish to sheep, and were a menace to livestock farmers.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Probably best to stick with a street-meat hot dog as opposed to bushmeat wild dog for the time being.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2011
  • Sheriff's deputy falls in the mud at Hines Park after being chased by wild dogs.
    — Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The little wild dogs of the desert, the jackals, had taken these travelers’ hands and feet.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
  • Instead, impala are more likely to be attacked and eaten by a wild dog or cheetah.
    — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The dhole -- a tawny-colored wild dog -- is also highly endangered.
    — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Supai, at the time, was living among 30 to 40 wild dogs at the bottom of the canyon.
    — Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Someone called Sipho to tell him that there was a hyena and some wild dogs eating an impala from that viewpoint.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Researchers dissected a deceased adult male African wild dog from the Phoenix Zoo.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • By 1901, colonial officials had placed a bounty of one pound on the head of every wild dog.
    — Saima Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Conservation of dingoes has been up for debate because they’re seen as wild dogs whose numbers need to be controlled.
    — science.org, 12 July 2024
  • Endangered wild dog travel in packs, and buffalo roam 500 deep.
    — Andrew Sessa, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Boating safaris and guided bush walks are also very popular here—look out for elephants, wild dogs, and lions.
    — Elizabeth Gordon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025

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