How to Use mink in a Sentence

mink

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  • What had made those dogs jump was the scent of those minks.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Then in 2005, a mink found its way inside the colony and killed all but six of the fledglings.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
  • Cats have not been shown to pass the virus on to humans, but mink have.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The mink were fed poultry, and wild birds in the region had been found to have bird flu.
    — Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
  • That strain—the same that mutated to spread from mink to mink—is present in Asia, too.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Not even the cat-food and mink industries will buy these fish.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The outbreak at the mink farm opens a new worry for health researchers.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Back in 2020, Denmark moved to cull millions of farmed mink.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Then on the last verse and chorus of the song, one of our co-workers came onstage and draped a white mink over Ronald.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2022
  • What can be done with old mink coats, jackets, stoles and collars?
    — Heloise, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2021
  • As her team worked, the trickle of cases in new species became a flood: cats and dogs in homes and mink on farms.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Dear Heloise: What can be done with old mink coats, jackets, stoles and collars?
    — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
  • The virus did, however, pass from farmed mink to humans.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 4 July 2021
  • But soon, the minks escaped from these farms, and some were freed by animal rights activists in the 1990s.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The sables, mink, and ermines checked at the cloakroom could have carpeted the chateau ballroom wall to wall.
    — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In late 2022, mammal-to-mammal spread occurred in Spain in farmed minks.
    — Emma Worden-Sapper, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2023
  • This is how heavy the mink carcasses scheduled to be exhumed and burnt are.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Take their lineup of fresh brands for a spin, such as P.E. Nation’s crop top and legging set in black and mink beige.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In response, the government announced the culling of 17 million mink to stop its spread.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Some of the more dainty ones, like a light mink, are very natural looking.
    — Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • For that part of the show, Drake wore Cam’ron’s pink mink jacket and headband — the actual garments.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Suddenly, a small mink appears and tries to sneak in some fishing as well.
    — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • But none of the sickened animals has raised as much concern as mink.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Within the last year, minks have also been let loose from farms in Ohio and Wisconsin that breed minks for their fur.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The fisher cat is a member of the weasel family and is most closely related to a mink or a marten.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2022
  • On Bird Island, workers are currently trying to trap a mink that has made the 1-mile swim from shore and killed dozens of birds.
    — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • Because mink are known to spread certain viruses to humans, the fear was that the disease could jump from mink to people.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And, so far, the only cases where that's known to have happened all involve people who have worked on mink farms.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Watch for close encounters with moose, black bear, otters, mink, and more than 125 species of nesting birds.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2022
  • Thousands of mink were culled, farms were shuttered, and the fur industry was destroyed.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2022

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