Sentence examples for fox from inspiring English sources

Under the ban, fox hunts can do everything except hunt foxes.

Farmers had a vested interest in killing foxes, which preyed on their livestock; a hobby rider out for an enjoyable day's riding in the autumn sunshine doesn't really care what is being pursued, a fox or a scented rag.

On two occasions dogs are seen following the line of a fox.

Like, for instance, these recent regional news reports about a fox that returns to the same woman's garden in suburban Leeds every night, to make an offering of another single shoe.

She is acting as an amateur whipper-in: the role entails being stationed at the edge of the field in case the hounds happen on a real fox and set off in pursuit, in which case she is supposed to stop them.

Ten years ago, before foxhunting was banned, the symphony of squeals would have signified that the 40-strong pack of hounds had hit on the scent of a fox.

There was a fox-hunting atmosphere about the campaign against Carmichael, he thought.

Far from being the lecherous fat bloke whose photograph in fox-hunting kit the Daily Beast loves to reprint, he struck me as rather sensitive.

But although warmly introduced as a Tea Party champion, the freshman senator was forced on the defensive by the Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, who asked him during a challenging question and answer session if he regretted proposing similar reforms as part of a comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 but stalled in the House.

All they knew was that he had some connection to Liam Fox, the defence secretary who had flown out for a weekend to make a speech to a private local foundation.

Ruth Fox, director of the Hansard Society, told the Guardian last week that turnout looked set to echo that of 2010, despite hopes that close contests in many constituencies might have encouraged more votes.