ermines

plural of ermine

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • Adding social services, mental health services and job training would go a long way toward helping far more people than banning mink coats.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Out stepped the Queen of Soul in a full-length mink coat.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Other offerings include pig feet, pig ears, pig tails, frozen rabbits, quails, frozen sardines, black swordfish and octopus, many of which mainly come from Europe.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Among those, there were only four rabbit strikes reported, including one at the Denver International Airport, according to the FAA.
    Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, marten populations shot up and the researchers began to see their scat in new areas.
    Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • This acquisition will improve the habitat for Wisconsin’s endangered American marten, which has been facing a dwindling habitat.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in the decade following the sea star collapse.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Also the forests are vital for the other creatures living there—native brook trout and a rare mammal called a fisher, which is related to weasels and otters.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Ermines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ermines. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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