How to Use hare in a Sentence

hare

noun
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  • Xavier wants to be the hare, Iowa State wants to be the tortoise.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The meat is not as dark, nor as stringy as that of hares.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • But the hare couldn’t stick the landing, and the tortoise reigned supreme.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
  • My snares were hung in the trails with care, in hopes that a hare would soon run there.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Late stages of the disease can make hares slow and easy to catch by pets.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • This verse is kind of a turtle and the hare sort of story.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022
  • There is no safe haven for a hare when the goshawks are hunting.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Think of this like the classic folk story about the tortoise and the hare.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2021
  • There's more than one way that a tortoise can beat a hare.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Think tortoise and hare fable: slow and steady wins the race.
    — Henry Devries, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Other names include the hare moon, the corn planting moon, and the milk moon.
    — National Geographic, 15 June 2019
  • My reasoning: hares are easy to catch and there are a ton of them.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Trinniberg wobbled to the wire in 17th place, a hare turned tortoise down the stretch.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2018
  • As the rest of the West sprints up and down the floor, Utah will be content as the tortoise to the conference’s hare.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 21 July 2017
  • Investing often feels like the old tale of the tortoise and the hare.
    — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Or rent a bike from the Bublr bike hare program to pedal around the city at your own pace.
    — Travel Wisconsin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2019
  • The Easter bunny needs to be fluffier — get the hare brush.
    — Hannah Jeon and Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Since 1857, Eton has kept a pack of beagles to use in hunting hares.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • The name refers to the wolpertinger, a winged and horned hare in German folklore that resides in the forests of Bavaria.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2020
  • But be warned: Br’er Bear and Br’er Fox are in hot pursuit of this wayward hare.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Not the rustling of crickets and hares, not a night sound, but the stride of farmers, ploddish some, quick and silent some.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The new space race is like the tortoise and the hare, contends Howard McCurdy.
    — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2019
  • And yet the story rolls on, oblivious and hare-brained.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Instead of continuing to chase the hare, the cat looked over and focused in on the 2-year-old.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Holy hares The Easter bunny’s bio starts long before the 1800s, though.
    — Molly Jackson, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The best forecasters combined the good qualities of both the tortoise and the hare.
    — Pavel Atanasov, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The disease is spread by bacteria through hare and vole ticks.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • The Best Ideas for Kids Take their egg-hunting game to the next level with a series of hare-scratching clues.
    — Marisa Iallonardo, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • This is where being the tortoise instead of the hare may be the better path to stable, long-term growth.
    — Jason Hennessey, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2022
  • Its large feet prevent the hare from sinking into the deep, soft snow, acting like snowshoes —hence its name.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

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