How to Use rodent in a Sentence

rodent

noun
Definition of rodentnext
  • The fluffy white rodent was big enough to fit in the palm of his hand.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The longer the rodents stayed by the water cooler, the more sharp waves that occurred in the brain.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2024
  • At one point in the clip, the rodents start to slow down and break formation.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
  • The capybara is the world's largest rodent and a close relative of the guinea pig.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Get ahead of rodents When the weather turns cold, mice and rats search for ways to stay warm.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Did this rodent revenant cross a stygian void to haunt us yet again?
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Invasive mammals, like rodents, are known to feed on the eggs and fledglings of the Azores bullfinch.
    — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • So can the rattlesnake, which detects the heat that the rodent is giving off.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • From capybara — the world’s largest rodent — to jaguars, caiman and countless bird species.
    — Palabra, oregonlive, 26 May 2022
  • Loud Mouse is about the story of rodent sisters Dee and Cara Lee.
    — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The melomys, a small white-flecked rodent, lived on an island near the tip of the Great Barrier Reef.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The crawl space was littered with feces, dead rodents, and mold.
    — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • When Bushnell first came up with the concept of the restaurant, there were no plans to use a rodent as the mascot.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Aside from the rodent, police found body armor and meth.
    — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • In one, a woman drives while the shadowy rodent sits in the passenger seat.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Now, the researchers want to look at humans to see if the rodent research holds up in ourselves.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • When the rodents still failed to appear, their nimble lawyer had a second defense at the ready.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • After towing it to a shop, a mechanic told her that a rodent had chewed through the wiring.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Do not allow pets to hunt or roam in rodent areas, such as prairie-dog colonies.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • Wild pigs kill and eat rodents, deer, birds, snakes, frogs, lizards and salamanders.
    — Marcus Lashley, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The short-haried, brownish rodents are related to the guinea pig but are much larger and weigh 50 times as much.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The city has been trying to rid itself of the rodent, which came to New York on merchant ships, for at least two centuries.
    — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In the video, the outline of what appears to be a large rodent’s front paws can be seen through the glass paneling on the ceiling of the cabin.
    — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • African spiny mice are small to medium sized rodents with spiny hairs on their upper body, large eyes and ears, and scaly tails.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
  • Brinker said the health of lemmings, the rodent that is the birds' primary food source on their nesting grounds, is key to the owls' future.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2021
  • There are many other products that promise to rid you of rodents, but be wary.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • Residents say there were holes in the walls and rodents and roaches living in them.
    — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The text was accompanied by an image of the rodent on the back of his smiling owner, Mark Longo.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Once rodents have been inserted, the vehicle should be turned on and used for routine transit.
    — Jeff Gibson, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024

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