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Sentence Examples The Egyptian mongoose is mainly nocturnal, although it sometimes hunts during the day. Snaring has largely been replaced by shooting and 40 riders-and-hounds hunts have been disbanded. In the film, retired cop Harrison Ford hunts down renegade human replicants amid a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles. The collection will be of enormous interest to anyone who shoots, hunts or fishes. Some people argue that hunting is more cruel than shooting as some hunts last for 25 miles and up to 8 hours. The author, a farmer who neither shoots nor hunts, explains here why in his view hunting is good for the countryside. In the southeastern US, organized rattlesnake hunts destroy gopher tortoise burrows and lead to the deaths of tortoises. The South Zone hunter who juggles the options should be able to enjoy productive hunts during the three-day opening weekend. Some hunts even constructed artificial earths within their coverts to further encourage the fox population. When four Hampshire hunts turned out on Saturday it was hard to believe that the traditional pursuit of fox-hunting had just been banned. Thousands of determined hunters were expected to turn out today for what could be one of the last legal fox hunts in York and North Yorkshire. This would allow licenced fox hunts to continue if they can prove they perform an essential role in rural areas. So hunts moved into direct land management, buying and planting small pieces of rough scrub as coverts. There were carpets with woven scenes of hunts and landscapes or just florals. Prowling the ice pack, a polar bear hunts for seals during summer's thaw, or take advantage of the open water to seek food. This spells bad news not only for Arctic peoples but for species like the polar bear, which hunts seals on the sea ice. To continue, hunts would have to meet the twin tests of preventing cruelty and being necessary for pest control. Twenty-nine out of 41 hunts had participants that were consanguineal relatives or were members of households that had consanguineal relatives. Like most insectivorous bats, the New Zealand short-tailed bat hunts insects in the air by using echolocation. I've seen several pieces of footage of such monkey hunts and they all elicit the same cold gnawing fear in my gut. Show More Sentences We are not hunt saboteurs, we follow hunts wherever there is public access and we are opposed to violence. One of the reasons given by the hunts for preserving fox hunting is that it is necessary to control the fox population. So, in Dumfriesshire or Perthshire, the hunts still meet and dogs are still used to flush out foxes. Other hunts may claim that hounds are chasing rabbits or rats, both of which are legal quarry. She joined the king on his long hunts for large game throughout the countryside, under his tutelage was becoming a skilled archer and rider. So they try to get in one or two last hunts over the season's closing days. There are chapters that walk women through various hunts such as upland game, deer, waterfowl, wild turkey and antelope. Such holidays occur after good hunts or when large game animals, such as an elephant or a wild pig, have been captured. Although opportunities to hunt the world's great game animals have never been greater, the cost of such hunts have never been higher. There were parties and picnics, visits to one another's homes, holidays in the country or at the seaside, and game hunts. In one aborted poem I explored the feeling by examining the way a tuning circuit hunts up and down its scale to locate and fix on a signal. His sprawling property, on which he hunts deer and wild turkey, is his safe haven, far from his attention-getting job. Now testing is the responsibility of the US Anti-Doping Agency, a no-holds-barred body that hunts drugs cheats relentlessly and ruthlessly. While I was there, I was invited aboard a catcher boat, which hunts and harpoons whales. For most of our stay, we camped on the property of a man who hunts to provide meat a couple of times a week for his family. On his journey, Tom is being hosted by members of various hunts, who are also providing stabling for Bilko. Saboteurs have pledged to disrupt hunts over Christmas and predict they will turn violent. Pembrokeshire's two fox hunts are considering their futures now that a hunting ban has become a reality. In north Norfolk we are used to the dramatic appearance of a Barn Owl as it hunts the road side verges searching for small rodents. The snowy egret often hunts by shuffling its feet back and forth in the water, stirring things up so it can eat them. Show More Sentences Realizing he has been snookered, Esau goes on the warpath and hunts down Jacob. The search for the origins of the modern self has been one of the great snipe hunts in the history of the humanities. The CPHA said it believed more than 90 per cent of hunts could potentially be allowed to carry on if the Bill became law unamended. Although neither of us hunts, we like the spirit and character of hunting dogs. Serious tuneage, the melody just hunts you down until your pinched into a corner with no escape route in sight. Discussion of the number of deer culled by the hunts I believe is academic. Anyone who hunts with bird dogs would remark the similarity between his approach and a hunting dog's point. The short-eared owl is the most diurnal of all our owls and hunts over our moorlands. Local lords also demanded that peasants beat the woods during hunts and pay special additional taxes. These colonies soon boasted yacht clubs, fox hunts, formal dinners, and elaborate banquets. Scrub bull hunts are conducted in conjunction with our North Queensland wild boar hunts. She scribbles frantically on sheets of paper, then hunts through desk drawers for more writing material. Vinnie hunts rabbits for the pot with his three lurchers and maintains that his way of killing them is as humane as any alternative. A few large panels portray ancient hunts, with a figure stalking herds of deer. The dark, claustrophobic opus, a tale of witch hunts and the German myth of Walpurgisnacht, has proven wildly divisive among the band's fans. One of our favorite outfitters in Texas offers aoudad hunts at a great price near his home in West Texas. The ban also meant that for the first time hunts were using terriers to drive foxes out of holes, he said. About the size of a very large Alsatian, the wolf hunts in packs and will eat anything from reindeer to household rubbish. The wolf hunts in packs, without the single-mindedness of the falcon, but still with a predator's instincts. It took five decades of trapping, bounties, and posse hunts to exterminate the wolf here. Show More Sentences We've had firework displays, organised Easter egg hunts and celebrated Royal jubilees on the green. She hunts because she enjoys riding to hounds, not because she enjoys watching animals get killed. This was another great season for the association, members of which took top-class prizes in all the big drag hunts in Cork and Limerick. It will tell tales of frontier gunfights, buffalo hunts, Indian fights, trail drives, and stagecoaches. Not long ago my friend Steve Johns was talking with a Colorado hunting guide who had led Koenig on elk and mule deer hunts. It was also important as the site of the annual Bay Fair held every Whitsuntide, the village stocks, and meeting place for local hunts. Look for the soaring rough-legged hawk and the hovering kestrel as each hunts for ground squirrels and other rodents. From lawyers to carpenters, every Greenlander hunts seal as a crucial source of nutrition. It featured a sporting clay shoot, guided hunts for pheasant and quail and a celebrity dinner with live and silent auctions. Especially in his final years, Evans often went on scavenging hunts, wresting all kinds of street signs from their rightful places. More than 3,500 Scots, mainly woman and children, and their cats were killed in witch hunts at a time of political intrigue and religious ferment. Hundreds of packs of fox hounds, hare hounds, deer hounds and other hunts and clubs are planning to meet on Saturday, the day after the ban comes into force. Breitbart forced her to correct a small part of her story, but witch hunts like these will leave every victim cowering. Unlike other wolves, the species hunts alone, with individuals leaving their groups in the late morning and early afternoon in search of giant mole rats and grass rats. But many hunts say there are enough options within the law to allow foxes, hares and deer to be legally chased by hounds, though guns may be used for the kill. Among Algonquians, bear hunts were often associated with fasting, ritual, and feasting cycles timed to varying points of preparation, activation, and completion of the hunt. As a matter of etiquette, York and Ainsty South had to give permission for hounds from other hunts to attend, as York Minster lies within its area. In addition to breeding calves and colts, Glenn earns a living taking clients out for guided hunts and stalking the occasional problem cat for local ranchers. Go on treasure hunts to places like flea markets, auctions, antique shops, second-hand stores, garage sales, craft sales and church rummage sales. Here all manner of wild and exotic creatures, tigresses, giraffes, and wild birds among them, were sent out for slaughter in combats and artificial hunts. Show More Sentences Soon after I was judged old enough to accompany the adults on squirrel hunts, my grandfather led me to a huge beech tree on a little branch of the creek. Many hunts take steps the night before, or early on the day of the hunt, to block up the entrances to earths, badger setts and artificial places such as drains. To have the tally-hoes of the English shires coming in droves to Ireland's hunting counties would severely disrupt the relationship between the hunts and the landowners. Mick left Fermanagh in 1950 as a young man of 20 and continued the family trade of blacksmithing by making and shoeing horse for hunts in England. He hunts, skeet shooting, out for birds, and he has more exotic sports. Gladiatorial combats, wild beast hunts, and public executions were important spectacles presented not only in Rome but throughout the Roman Empire. And artists have portrayed wild-game hunts in Africa, as well as Indian buffalo leaps in America when men have deliberately caused animal stampedes. Has the country gone crazy and turned into an Orwellian nightmare of big brother with added national socialism and publicly supported witch hunts? There were also a number of lesser known events such as mock sea battles involving ships, animal circus acts, animals fighting animals and animal hunts. It is likely that man would have taken advantage of bad weather during these hunts, hiding in dense fog or waiting in areas where animals gathered during a storm. Of the 91 foxes legally killed by the 250 hunts which met in England and Wales on Saturday, none are believed to have been killed in the north west. If it is banned, have the opponents thought about the future of activities such as point-to-points, pony clubs and agricultural shows regularly sponsored by local hunts? We feel that it is one of the finest hunts of venery that we actually see. Protests against Boxing Day fox hunts have been called off by campaigners. Fox hunts are not exactly common phenomena in today's society. Indeed The International Fund for Animal Welfare has frequently uncovered hunts around the country that use artificial earths and food trails to entice foxes on to their land. The grison hunts both night and day, and is often seen in small groups. During those hunts, youth can harvest ducks, mergansers, coots and moorhens, and both youth and licensed adults can harvest Canada geese. Acrochordus javanicus of Java like the other wart snakes hunts fish and for this reason has modified its teeth into long fangs. However, in a bid to save his love and seek revenge, Nani reincarnates as a housefly and hunts down his murderer Sudeep. Show More Sentences Some hunts, including most harrier and beagle packs, wear green rather than red jackets, and some hunts wear other colours such as mustard. Despite the controversy thousands of dolphins are caught in drive hunts each year. Their intention was to expose what they considered embezzlement of the meat collected during whale hunts. Other than commercial hunts, killer whales were hunted along Japanese coasts out of public concern for potential conflicts with fisheries. It is regulated by Faroese authorities but not by the International Whaling Commission, which does not regulate the hunts of small cetaceans. The hunts use harpoons for dolphin hunts or intentionally drive whales into nets, reporting them as cases of entanglement. Fin whales have been targets of illegal captures using harpoons for dolphin hunts or intentionally drive whales into nets. Meat and other products from whales killed in these hunts are widely marketed within Greenland, but export is illegal. This is the governing body for all foxhound packs and deals with disputes about boundaries between hunts, as well as regulating the activity. Social rituals are important to hunts, although many have fallen into disuse. Dependent on terrain, and to accommodate different levels of ability, hunts generally have alternative routes that do not involve jumping. Horses on hunts can range from specially bred and trained field hunters to casual hunt attendees riding a wide variety of horse and pony types. From 1958 to 1963, the 11 otter hunts in England and Wales killed 1,065 otters between them. When incubating eggs, the female sits on the nest while the male hunts and brings food to her and the chicks. Some hunts may go without catching a fox for several seasons, despite chasing two or more foxes in a single day's hunting. Urban hunts are also on the rise, and this has led to the locavore movement that has brought hundreds of thousands into hunting. As with all witch hunts, the daisy chain of accusations never ends. Among the other highlights of this remarkable series are Bengal tiger hunts and going inside army ant colonies. Commercial whaling is practised intermittently along with scientific whale hunts. The IpsosMori survey rvey for animal welfare charities comes amid fears some hunts flout the law and use dogs for blood sport. Show More Sentences In the late 1620s a wave of witch hunts swept across large areas of Germany. Methods of game-preservation in their extensive and well-stocked hunting-grounds were as model as the huntsmanlike management of the hunts. By night, he hunts with ghosts with goggles and a K2 device. Between deer hunts, we'd dropped plenty of Hungarian partridge and sharptail grouse for Rocky, my yellow Lab, to retrieve. As it hunts for a new owner for the property, Moray Council has noted the offshore wind prospects of the Buckie shipyard in northeast Scotland. The land was used by Crooked Creek Shooting Preserve for commercial hunts for pheasant, quail and chukar. All of these deaths were very public events, and in the decades when Williams was in England, the witch hunts were increasing. The smartest, snappiest, best bred and most highly trained hunting dog on earth won't amount to a hill of beans if he hunts only twice a season. In fact, the result of this action is obvious, because the results of witch hunts have never changed throughout history. The Puzzle Book Companion also contains accounts of historical treasure hunts plus puzzles and brain teasers. A one-N nun for Jesus hunts, A two-N Nunn in Senate once, But I'll bet you a sticky bun you never met a three-N nunnn. Historically, whales had been abundant in the gulf before commercial hunts wiped them out. Head for the Strawbale Theatre for hands-on workshops, interactive theatre, kaleidoscopic video shows and bug and slug hunts. Some hunt monitors also choose to trespass whilst they observe the hunts in progress. After the end of gladiatorial games in the 5th century and of staged animal hunts in the 6th, most amphitheatres fell into disrepair. In the state of Victoria there are thirteen hunts, with more than 1000 members between them. These hunts were distinctive from hunts in other cultures where they were the equivalent to small unit actions. The environment in which the Inuit lived inspired a mythology filled with adventure tales of whale and walrus hunts. This technique is also used by the polar bear, who hunts by seeking holes in the ice and waiting nearby. It frequents scrubs and bushes with overhanging branches close to shallow open water in which it hunts. Show More Sentences In its submission to the Burns Inquiry, the League Against Cruel Sports presented evidence of over 1,000 cases of trespass by hunts. By autumn, the pups are mature enough to accompany adults on hunts for large prey. Successful hunts usually occur after a short rush and ambush but they may chase down prey in the open and will try to separate mother and young. These subsistence hunts still occur in Canada, Greenland, Indonesia, Russia, the United States, and several nations in the Caribbean. Naturalist Nick Baker hunts down the strangest animals, beginning with the horned lizard. Nick Baker hunts down the planet's strangest animals, beginning with a horned lizard. The spectral bat hunts reptiles, amphibians, birds, large insects, and even other bats, using its three-foot wingspan to glide silently down onto its prey. Other than bats taken at night, the peregrine rarely hunts mammals, but will on occasion take small species such as rats, voles, hares, shrews, mice and squirrels. It's the time of year for scavenger hunts and my sisters and I would go out looking for fallen leaves, spinning jennies, conkers, beech nuts and acorns. Volume I is 120 minutes long and features 25 hunts in Wyoming, Kansas, Montana, Iowa, Indiana, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Saskatchewan, and Old Mexico. Additional features for the PSP system include wireless ad hoc multiplayer for up to four players, widescreen graphics, new treasure hunts and more. The ruling was a major victory for whaling opponents, as it ends for now one of the world's biggest whale hunts, for minkes in the icy Southern Ocean. Hunt supporters previously claimed that, in the event of a ban, hunts would not be able to convert and that many hounds would have to be put down. The polar bear also hunts by stalking seals resting on the ice. All I do know is Cuz and his video camera have shadowed me on deer hunts from Southern bottomlands to the north woods of Michigan and the Texas brush country. In some parts of the world, such as Taiji in Japan and the Faroe Islands, dolphins are traditionally considered food and are killed in harpoon or drive hunts. Supporters contend that while drag hunts can be fast, this need not be the case if the scent line is broken up so that the hounds have to search an area to pick up the line. The killer whale hunts in pods and targets belugas and even larger whales. On one side were the vile, shape-shifting Skrulls, who wanted to enslave us, prompting McCarthyesque witch hunts and a disbanding of the Avengers. In such hunts, the hunters notched their poles after every kill. Show More Sentences Numerous events take place throughout including festivals such as Rose Week and special activities such as bird watching evenings and great beast hunts. Recent research indicates that the Neanderthals timed their hunts and the migrations of game animals long before the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. This is a typical harrier, which hunts on long wings held in a shallow V in its low flight during which the bird closely hugs the contours of the land below it. Genetic investigations of the pilot whales driven ashore in the Faroese hunts have shown a relatedness amongst whales, suggesting a matrilineal structure within social units. One study found they can use smell to distinguish between the Maasai, a group that hunts elephants, and the Kamba, who are primarily farmers and pose no threat. In Central Europe, wolves were dramatically reduced in number during the early nineteenth century, because of organized hunts and reductions in ungulate populations. Nearby, three scaups were offshore, the great northern diver remains on Rhyl''s Marine Lake, and a short-eared owl hunts over the enterprise park. These changing attitudes may partly explain the witch hunts that occurred after the Reformation and in which women were the largest group of victims. Bottlenose dolphins are still captured or killed in dolphin drive hunts for their meat, to eliminate competition for fish and for capture for marine parks. Walrus hunts are regulated by resource managers in Russia, the United States, Canada, and Denmark, and representatives of the respective hunting communities. In some parts of the world, such as Taiji, Japan and the Faroe Islands, dolphins are traditionally considered food, and are killed in harpoon or drive hunts. This can be an important source of income for small communities, as guided hunts bring in more income than selling the polar bear hide on markets. There are times when a fox that is injured or sick is caught by the pursuing hounds, but hunts say that the occurrence of an actual kill of this is exceptionally rare. In some parts of the world, such as Taiji, Japan and the Faroe Islands, dolphins are traditionally considered as food, and are killed in harpoon or drive hunts. An African Jacana bird hunts for flies on a partly submerged hippo. Since the group was formed in 1994, they have raised tens of thousands of pounds by organising various events including treasure hunts, quizzes and barn dances. Examples from Classical Literature He hunts with a bola, a thin thong or string at each end of which is a heavy leather-covered ball of stone or iron. And if man's gratitude is not enough for safety, the jabiru smells very, very badly, and no man hunts his tribe. If he hunts up my address on Madison Avenue, the hall boy will send him there. I tell him who my boss is and he hunts him up in the phone book and calls him. In this sense it is known throughout the English-speaking world much as the Pytchley and the quorn hunts are known. Then he was in Pau, where he said they were having such fine fox hunts. This truffle which the Beetle hunts appears to have no particular odor. It hunts vigorously for crayfish and insect larv in the rivers. I will play with the dhole at twilight, for the dhole hunts best by day. A STAR Wars convention, graffiti art and Easter egg hunts are among the high-lights taking place around the country his weekend. Gardening, walks, rows on the river, and flower hunts employed the fine days, and for rainy ones, they had house diversions, some old, some new, all more or less original. They had race horses, and Russian pancakes and bear hunts and three-horse sledges, and gypsies and drinking feasts, with the Russian accompaniment of broken crockery. Here, a mother stoat hunts baby rabbits to feed her offspring. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveller on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game. Anatomically correct vital areas for a number of species, clearly visible on each image, will help archers make proper shooting decisions on hunts. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hunts? Words that rhyme with hunts What is the adverb for hunts? What is the adjective for hunts? What is the noun for hunts? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words huntress Huntington Huntingdonshire Huntingdon Hunting hunting hunt's huntsman huntsmen Huntsville huntswoman hup 5-letter Words Starting With h hu hun hunt