How to Use rodent in a Sentence

rodent

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 study ranked cities according to the number of new rodent treatments performed, and the results are shown in this week’s chart.
    — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium found in rodents and their fleas.
    — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Some looked healthy; others had bark that had been chewed by rodents seeking water, a sign of drought stress.
    — Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
  • But pizza pie-rats and a toilet bowl rat-atouille aren’t the only concerns that such rodents bring.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Invading the herds helps the wolves hunt rodents, though the benefits for the Geladas aren't abundantly clear.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The rodents lived about 10% to 12% longer than mice that didn’t receive the additional taurine.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • For a donation, the zoo allows the scorned to name a cockroach, rodent or veggie after an ex.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • These types of scraps can attract flies, rodents and wildlife, such as raccoons, or produce odors.
    — Lauren David, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • The rehab facility fattened the owl up with a diet of bugs and small rodents.
    — Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Other oils have been tested on in vitro cells or in rodents, but have yet to make it to human trials.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Rosie Wightman, 12, is seen in the silent video footage cleaning out her pet’s cage in her backyard before noticing the rodent in the jaws of a snake hidden in the bushes.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Populations of rodents, a key host for ticks, are predicted to increase this year thanks to a large acorn crop in 2021.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • The cats, or more likely their owners, received a food stipend for keeping rodent numbers down.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Consider a large-footed rodent called the Bramble Cay melomys.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023

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