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• In this region, the wild boars can be dangerous, but (perhaps counterintuitively) the feral hogs can be even worse.From the entry feral
• The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.From the entry muddy
• The monastery's records showed not only how many swine were raised each year but also their disposition, categorized by boars, sows, hoggets, and porklings.From the entry hogget
• A boar hooving the dust in anticipation of sinking a tusk into her flank?2016, Boris Fishman, Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry hoove
• For swine there are four categories: boars, sows, hoggets, and porklings or sucking-pigs (porcelli).2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
• What did he ever do but hunt boar and deer and foxen?2012, Gardner Dozois, Another World, page 1791. From the entry foxen
• So, in addition to San Domenico classics like pappardelle with wild boar, Ms.2009 September 2, Glenn Collins, “A Genteel Italian Now Tries Playing to the Crowd”, in New York Times. From the entry hiramasa
• Green, a silver boar (or sanglier) passant (POLLARD) (Plate VII., fig. 1).1912, George Harvey Johnston, Scottish Heraldry Made Easy, page 47. From the entry musion
• Also choice spring boars, all first class and priced to sell.1910 October, “For Sale”, in American Swineherd, volume ⅩⅩⅦ, number 10, Chicago: American Swineherd Pub. Co., →OCLC, Bargain Column, page…. From the entry price to sell
• Each “sounder," or group , of wild swine will be joined by a dominant boar when there are females in estrus.2019, Alice Percy, Happy Pigs Taste Better: A Complete Guide to Organic and Humane Pasture-Based Pork Production, Chelsea Green Publisher…. From the entry sounder
• In addition to the zubr, the Polish forests are also home to the wild boar, eagles, falcons, and many other animals.1994, Don McKay, Our Global Village - Poland: A Cultural Resource Guide, Lorenz Educational Press, page 3. From the entry zubr
• She saw a boar following a sow.1987, Peter Pabisch, “H. C. Artmann”, in Donald G[eorge] Daviau, editor, Major Figures of Contemporary Austrian Literature, New York…. From the entry haress
• Setting their boar helmets well over their ears, the fierce warriors of Geatland strode up the sea cliffs after their leader.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 24. From the entry Geatland
• One extremely large, heavy bone, lengthy Poland-China fall boar.1910 October, “For Sale”, in American Swineherd, volume ⅩⅩⅦ, number 10, Chicago: American Swineherd Pub. Co., →OCLC, Bargain Column, page…. From the entry price to sell
• At 2.24 pm, a boar was found severely wounded in the westward direction of the Island Eastern Corridor near the roads of A Kung Ngam.2024 May 12, “Boar fatally struck by a taxi at Shau Kei Wan”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 12 May 2024, Local. From the entry A Kung Ngam
• Dwale was a solution of wine mixed with a number of other ingredients, Some were pretty mile, like lettuce and boar bile.2018, The World of Lore, Volume 3, The World of Lore, Volume 3. From the entry dwale
• The fifty villagers of Tongguzbasti ("The invading boar") live in a thicket behind a stockade which protects them from the wind and sand.2004, Christian Tyler, “Separate Tables”, in Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang (History/Asia), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University…. From the entry Tongguzbasti
• He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretched right up to his ribs.1958, T. H. White, chapter 16, in The Once and Future King, London: Collins, published 1959. From the entry weal
• The guards in the king's retinue had tried to Greekify their helmets by sewing on pieces of boar tusk, though the tusky chunks flapped around like hangnails.2019, Bryan Furuness, My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Indiana University Press, →ISBN. From the entry Greekify
• Rabbit is the most represented species at every archeological level, although some macromammal remains (ibex, red deer, wild boar, lynx, fox, and badger) have also been documented.2015 March 12, “Looking at the Camp: Paleolithic Depiction of a Hunter-Gatherer Campsite”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry archeological
• The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32. From the entry market
• Bulls, rams and boars have the biggest testes among the larger domestic animals, so they would be expected to produce and ejaculate more sperms than others with smaller testes.2012, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry ejaculate
• The bush pig (Potamochoerus porcus) is an African member of the pig family, Suidae, resembling a boar but with long body hair and tassels of hair on its ears.2011, Britannica Educational Publishing, Grazers, page 175. From the entry bush pig
• If that makes him sound like a male chauvinist, well, he appeared at a recent conference in Houston wearing a tie emblazoned with boar heads and the monogram MCP.1976 January 23, Nicholas Wade, “Edward Goldsmith: Blueprint for a De-industrialized Society”, in Science, volume 191, number 4224…. From the entry MCP
• A litter of nine pigs was farrowed, four of the boars having rudimentaries, and one lacking them, while three of the sows lacked rudimentaries and the fourth possessed them.1916 May 5, Edward N. Wentworth, “Rudimentary Mammæ in Swine a Sex-Limited Character”, in Science, volume XLIII (New Series), New York…. From the entry rudimentary
• Gray wolves, red foxes, raccoon dogs, lynx and boars all reside in the exclusion zone, as do endangered Przewalski’s horses, which were introduced to the area about two decades ago.2022 April 13, Emily Anthes, “A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Przewalski's horse
• At Tongguzbasti ("the boar trampled"), a remote settlement where the Keriya River trickles away into the sand, we recruited 24 camels, five Uighur camel drivers and the headman's eight-year-old son.1996 May 18, Christian Tyler, “Life stripped to its essentials in the desert”, in Financial Times, page XII, columns 6–7. From the entry Tongguzbasti

Meaning of boar

1. noun A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
2. noun A male pig.
3. noun A male boar (sense 1).

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How do you use boar in a sentence?

Boar is used as a noun. For example: “In this region, the wild boars can be dangerous, but (perhaps counterintuitively) the feral hogs can be even worse.”

What is a short sentence with boar?

“She saw a boar following a sow.”

What does boar mean?

Boar means a wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.