Examples of “coyote” in a Sentence

noun A wild dog-like animal native to North America, smaller than a wolf.

• We spotted a coyote trotting along the edge of the canyon at dawn.
• The farmer put up a taller fence to keep the coyote away from his chickens.
• A coyote howled somewhere out in the desert at night.

noun Informal: a person who smuggles migrants across a border for payment.

• The news story described how a coyote abandoned a group of travelers in the desert.
• Many migrants feared that the coyote they hired might not be honest.
• The family paid a coyote thousands of dollars to guide them across the border.