How to Use guinea pig in a Sentence

guinea pig

noun
Definition of guinea pignext
  • He volunteered to act as a guinea pig in the experiment.
  • And some of us out here are just the guinea pigs for that.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2018
  • And Matthew, their three children, and the legendary Ma Mac get to be the lucky guinea pigs.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
  • House of Holland and Self-Portrait are the guinea pigs.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Will these treats be a reward for the good deed of being a guinea pig?
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2020
  • But the star says being a guinea pig wasn’t always easy.
    — Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Also in need of a new home is Breeze, a 1-year-old, white and brown guinea pig that was a stray.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The capybara is the world's largest rodent and a close relative of the guinea pig.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Now Windows Insiders get to act as the guinea pigs for the rest of us.
    — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 26 July 2018
  • The six human guinea pigs at the heart of the research are seated on one side of the cabin.
    — Angus Whitley, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019
  • That there wouldn't even be the time or extra money for a class guinea pig.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Sturino swears that her boyfriend is her best guinea pig—but still!).
    — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 23 May 2018
  • If all this sounds confusing, think how the guinea pigs must feel.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
  • That’s like comparing two killer whales to a guinea pig.
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The backyard is full of the bones of our pets, mostly cats, but some gerbils, too, and even one guinea pig.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al.com, 26 June 2019
  • The inn has no pet-type restrictions, so pack up the bird, guinea pig, and hamster, too.
    — Laurie Wilson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In a video posted on Instagram, the light brown guinea pig runs back and forth to dunk the 4.4 cm spheres in a tiny hoop.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
  • She’s even helped a family find a cage for a guinea pig in need of a proper home.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Stop quivering like a bunch of nervous guinea pigs and get out of our way.
    — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • To do that, Xhaka has become a sleep science guinea pig of sorts.
    — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 14 June 2018
  • Screens shielded both Rose and the guinea pig from actual bites.
    — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • And the class pets — Reeses the guinea pig and Amigo the fish — would go home with her, along with every picture that her kids had drawn of them.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The perfect guinea pigs, the two key players, were his eldest daughters, Susie and Rosie, then about 7 and 8.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2015
  • No one wants to be a guinea pig so someone else can get re-elected to office.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Opinion: Kids have been used like guinea pigs on Big Tech’s platforms.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The guinea pig comes inside a nearly 12-inch-tall plastic hutch.
    — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That bedding you bought online for your child’s guinea pig will come in a bag that’s wrapped in paper and shipped in a box.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • The Grizzlies are the first guinea pig in the Ben Simmons experiment.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The law covers dogs, cats, monkeys, guinea pigs, hamsters, pigs, rabbits, and sheep.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Humans generally don’t want to be proverbial guinea pigs for new medicines or consumer products.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024

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