Example Sentences

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As the novel proceeds, Burke soon focuses her attention on Mama, the grizzled, almost furless alpha female, Goliath, the dominant male, and Tooch a bottle-fed juvenile.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2018

They have since sold nearly 30 of the furless cats to customers locally and around the country.

From Washington Times • Aug. 1, 2016

But while most owl pellets are densely packed with fur, Blakiston’s are more like tiny ossuaries for its furless victims: fish and frogs.

From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2016

Among the newly furless humans, bare skin would have served, like the peacock's tail, as a signal of fitness.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2013

His poor furless underpelt was no use at all.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver