Example sentences for: fur

How can you use “fur” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Within ten years, both tenant farmers (habitants) and fur traders (coureurs de bois, literally wood-runners) were colonizing Québec — New France — at the point where the river narrows.

  • Minks live longer on fur farms than they do in the wild.

  • Long after Northwest Coast Indians had found the region to be a hospitable land of plenty, it was explored and “worked” by Scottish fur traders who called it New Caledonia.

  • (Strangely, we are supposed to revile Cruella for designing fur coats, yet root for the hero, Roger, who designs violent, mind-numbing, soul-destroying video games.)

  • Gone are the red-lined, black-velvet circular skirts worn with flower-embroidered, white sweaters; the long-sleeved, tight jackets with fur trim at neck and wrists; the little fur hats and snug bonnets.


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