fox hunt


noun
    • the hunting of foxes with hounds

    • an instance of this

  1. an organization for fox-hunting within a particular area

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How to use fox hunt in a sentence

  • His place in the coach was soon occupied by a young man in a red coat, who was going to a fox-hunt near M——.

  • He and she rode in together as modern men and women ride through a gate to the covert side at a fox-hunt.

  • The foxhound is about two feet in height, and 120 of them would be considered an ample number for a quiet little fox hunt.

  • The old man knew that it was worry over the town's harsh reaction to the Sunday fox hunt that had brought Terry to him.

    Terry | Charles Goff Thomson
  • During a fox hunt, Reynard, being hard pressed, was reduced to the necessity of taking refuge up a chimney of a hothouse.

    A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals | Percy J. Billinghurst