Rutting is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Rutting meaning
present participle and gerund of rut
Using Rutting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of rut
- In the example corpus, rutting often appears in combinations such as: rutting season, the rutting, rutting in.
Context around Rutting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 1 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rutting
- In this selection, "rutting" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, address, deer, birds, season, good and yellow stand out and add context to how "rutting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include animals in rutting season and approaches a rutting male the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rutting" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rutting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What is Hitomi Tanaka's rutting season? (7 words)
They are protected from nesting birds, rutting mammals, and wayward buckshot. (11 words)
The rutting, or mating, season lasts from June through September, with peak activity in July and August. (17 words)
During the rutting season, the males may form temporary territories for a few hours or a day or so, and attempt to gather together a few females with which to mate, but soon they have to move on, often moving ahead to set up another temporary territory. (47 words)
University Of Chicago Press, Chicago Whilst hunting sambars, which comprise up to 60% of their prey in India, tigers have reportedly made a passable impersonation of the male sambar's rutting call to attract them. (35 words)
When a female approaches a rutting male, the male holds his head and tail at level with the ground, lowers his horns and makes a loud grunting noise to attract her. (31 words)
What is Hitomi Tanaka's rutting season? (7 words)
Example sentences (12)
Farn-Guillette said part of the project will involve rehabbing and doing mill and fill work to address rutting in the downtown area.
In programme three – autumn - there is a kaleidoscope of colour and at Gosford Forest Park as the rutting season has begun.
Signs of rutting good so despite a late gun season opener, hopeful for some good success to our hunters.
The coming Harvest Moon of September was also called the Autumn Moon by the Cree, Falling Leaves by the Ojibwe and Rutting, Yellow Leaf and Mating Moon by others.
Stating that she was ‘terrified’, she quickly moved away from the deer, but a ranger then told her off for being ‘near’ the animals in rutting season.
She sat on the bed and asked him if he could stop the noise outside – there were deer rutting in the park.
What is Hitomi Tanaka's rutting season?
During the rutting season, the males may form temporary territories for a few hours or a day or so, and attempt to gather together a few females with which to mate, but soon they have to move on, often moving ahead to set up another temporary territory.
The rutting, or mating, season lasts from June through September, with peak activity in July and August.
They are protected from nesting birds, rutting mammals, and wayward buckshot.
University Of Chicago Press, Chicago Whilst hunting sambars, which comprise up to 60% of their prey in India, tigers have reportedly made a passable impersonation of the male sambar's rutting call to attract them.
When a female approaches a rutting male, the male holds his head and tail at level with the ground, lowers his horns and makes a loud grunting noise to attract her.
Common combinations with rutting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rutting season 6×
- the rutting 3×
- rutting in 2×