Example Sentences

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He loved the video game “Minecraft” and the family’s half-wild cats.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022

Although the human breeders of the first domesticated animals must have repeatedly crossed them with their wild cousins, this is the first documented example of a half-wild, half-domesticated animal.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 13, 2022

Some days it was a relief to play Chewbacca, with his wordless, half-wild growls.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2019

Alicia was half-wild with worry as this date approached.

From New York Times • May 9, 2018

A motley pack of sixty-nine half-wild sled dogs from Canada was brought on board.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong