How to Use wildcat in a Sentence

wildcat

1 of 2 noun
  • But the Foothills is plagued by what are known as wildcat builders.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 29 June 2022
  • Fads, as the tush push or wildcat have shown, can be fleeting.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Their tight end played wildcat quarterback against us last year.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Word spread that a new band was throwing wildcat ragers in the ugliest parts of town.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The wildlife center said the wildcats are old and are not a danger to humans or pets.
    — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2025
  • In the wildcat, can chuck the ball around, also is a good receiver, as well.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Fishing, tourism and wildcat gold mining have long been among the main sources of income.
    — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Then, from thorny bramble, the wildcat exhales in a guttural hiss.
    — Leigh Ann Henion, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Henry started and scored on a 3-yard touchdown out of the wildcat.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Hill lines up at tight end and in the wildcat while also contributing on special teams.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
  • With any wildcat, there’s an initial phase where shooters gather and share data about what works and what doesn’t.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The wildcat notes, which once fueled frontier cities’ economies, fell into disuse.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The Ravens scored early in the season on a wildcat snap to Ingram.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Woods totaled seven tackles for a loss, forced a fumble and even got a few wildcat-style handoffs.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 10 Dec. 2022
  • And that’s on top of the fact that the Irish have bombed in making the wildcat actually work.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Look out for a big adventure into the Wild with wildcat friend Willa.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In that sense, Talitha-A is not a true wildcat exploration well.
    — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2021
  • Saquon Barkley taking wildcat snaps and Jones handing off the football.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 4 Oct. 2022
  • This was after a pair of 62-yard wildcat runs for touchdowns by Durham were erased by penalties.
    — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • After a pair of timeouts — one by each team — the Tide chose to go for the first down out of a wildcat formation.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Watson tied the score late in the second quarter with a four-yard touchdown out of the wildcat formation.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Howard lined up in a wildcat formation, took the snap, headed to the right and dragged a tackler the last three yards into the end zone.
    — Staff and Wire Reports, courant.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The Michigan running back lined up at quarterback in the wildcat for a second straight time.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Jones came back in as a receiver and the Giants ran wildcat plays with Barkley taking the snaps.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Barkley said the Giants have practiced the wildcat and showed it against Carolina.
    — Tom Canavan, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2022
  • On first-and-goal, Henry lined up in the wildcat, took the snap and scored, to the delight of the home crowd that had been calling his name.
    — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • African wildcats didn’t evolve around water and probably would be just as wary of a bathtub as our domestic kitties.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2026
  • On Wednesday, the urgency to do something resulted in a wildcat strike that shook the sports world.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2020
  • These Neolithic felines were pure wildcat.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2025
  • But none of that seems to matter for Citizen or its wildcat CEO.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 15 June 2021

wildcat

2 of 2 adjective
  • The union moves fast to set a date as members threaten a wildcat action.
    — Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • His high school seems to have him under center a decent amount as the star of a wildcat formation.
    — Alex Schiffer, kansascity, 11 May 2018
  • If any of these wildcat contract strikes are still going on six weeks from now, well, then that actually would be a big deal.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 11 June 2018
  • With three tight ends in instead, wildcat quarterback Seth Green was stuffed on third and 2.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Toney ran for 52 yards on six carries out of the wildcat package against LSU.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Sewo Olonilua did not take a snap out of the regular offense, but scored twice in wildcat formations.
    — Carlos Mendez, star-telegram, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Out of the wildcat formation, running back Rodney Smith took a direct snap on third and goal and scored from two yards out.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Akers also took some snaps out of the wildcat formation and completed two passes for 26 yards.
    — Bob Ferrante, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The use of mercury in the wildcat camps results in devastating effects on health and the environment.
    — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The Badgers run the ball on 65 percent of snaps and have added new wrinkles in jet sweeps and runs out of a wildcat formation in recent weeks.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Even if Mayfield is healthy for the whole year, Oklahoma is still going to use Murray in some wildcat packages.
    — Matt Jennings, ajc, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Williams had seven rushing attempts out of the wildcat formation in 2017 and one reception last year.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The entire time, the real star of the state's wildcat family, the bobcat, able to live quietly and compatibly with humans, was in our midst.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2019
  • The idea in the spring was to emphasize Murphy more with the offense as the starting running back and quarterback in wildcat situations.
    — Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Their bassy diva energy sparked gender confusion among the panel, but when that wildcat helmet came off and revealed British icon Seal, the room was stunned.
    — Rory Doherty, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Within a year, the wildcat local was crushed by its own parent union, the United Food and Commercial Workers.
    — Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2017
  • The militants have already proved their ability to launch wildcat bombings in neighborhoods long retaken by the security forces.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • Camron Donatlan ran five times for 59 yards, taking a direct snap out of the wildcat formation on three carries and running for first downs to extend drives.
    — Rick Armstrong, Aurora Beacon-News, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Before Friday’s game, the closest Lazic had come to playing quarterback was running some plays from the wildcat formation as a sophomore.
    — Jakub Rudnik, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • At Santa Cruz — where the protests began three months ago with a wildcat grading strike that ended in the dismissal of some student workers — students blocked entrances to campus.
    — Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Working out of the wildcat formation, Williams took a direct snap and trudged his way down into Lancers territory while his quarterback recovered.
    — J.l. Kirven, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Jackson led Clayton Valley with 69 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 21 carries from the wildcat formation.
    — SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Using a variety of ball carriers and running frequently from the wildcat formation, the Vikings took their opening drive 70 yards on 17 plays.
    — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Running out of Arkansas' wildcat formation, McFadden threw four touchdown passes in 11 attempts.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Across the Brazilian Amazon, outlaws of every description—wildlife poachers, wildcat gold prospectors, land-hungry settlers, drug traffickers—are breaching the boundaries of indigenous lands.
    — Scott Wallace, National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Whereas the ancestors of dogs roamed in packs and learned sophisticated strategies for interacting socially with other animals, the wildcat progenitors of today's house cats were more solitary animals.
    — Julia Calderone, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • In November, Pedro and two of his sons rushed to the river and sank their mining boat under the brown water to hide it from officials patrolling the Amazon area as Brazil’s government cracks down on wildcat gold miners.
    — Andre Cabette Fabio, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday in wildcat demonstrations that eventually coalesced around the legislature, where an hours-long battle broke out between more extreme protesters and police, and spread to other parts of the city.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 1 Sep. 2019
  • With traditional May Day labor marches curtailed by strict limits on public gatherings, Turkish protesters attempted to stage a wildcat demonstration.
    — Elena Becatoros, Time, 1 May 2020
  • Because wildcats typically defend a single territory for life, Driscoll expected that the genetic composition of wildcat groups would vary across their geographical ranges but remain stable over time, as is observed in many other felid species.
    — Andrew C. Kitchener, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015

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