How To Use Badger In A Sentence

The clump is the den area, and to the right are a couple of badger kids. Archive 2009-06-01
The acute sense of smell is important, since the badger's eyes are quite small, and its eyesight is not particularly good.
The European badger (_Meles taxus_ or _M. meles_) is from 25 in. to 29 in. long, with a tail of about 8 in.; the general hue of the fur is grey above and black on the under parts; the head is white, with a black stripe on each side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Along with the artist's renderings of badgers, each item is illustrated with easy to understand icons referencing water resistance, biodegradability (meaning you can go into a lake or ocean without harming the aquatic life), animal testing (none), and UVA rating. Marcia G. Yerman: Sunscreen Protection and Nail Polish: A Green Approach
Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford

And hedgehogs released into areas of excellent habitat hightailed it out of there if they smelt badger. Times, Sunday Times
I'm anti-gassing and would prefer to ask the badgers politely to leave. Times, Sunday Times
And a little bit of bear baiting and badger tickling. Times, Sunday Times
Voles are an important source of food for many predators, including snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, weasels, foxes, mink and badgers.
Scientific evidence suggests that badgers are one of the most likely carriers of the disease that is infecting cattle. Times, Sunday Times
In recent years, badgers have tunnelled into 52 ancient monuments on Salisbury Plain.
Is it not possible that tuberculous badgers cough up infected sputum onto grass which is then eaten by cattle? Times, Sunday Times
I could easily imagine Aaron Spelling bumping into Hackman at the Playboy Club and badgering him into a quick walk-on.
The prosecutor accused the couple of playing the badger game.
Squirrels, badgers, dormice, and larger animals such as deer are greedy for it.
A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
There are fewer regulations on the life of the home-schooled than there are on the welfare of badgers in their setts. Times, Sunday Times
I do not like being rude, but I like even less being badgered and harried.
Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.
They just happen to be more interesting to a badger as they are its staple food. Times, Sunday Times
In their search for food, most of which is comprised of burrowing rodents, badgers tear up large areas of earth with powerful digging claws on their forefeet.
The friend that's always badgering you about why you're upset, the brother that wants an account of every boy his sister hangs out with.
The most likely source of destruction is now from badgers which have already caused much damage to barrows, burial sites and other monuments.
The reporters badgered the minister with questions.
The only other smell you are likely to encounter that could be confused with badger musk is that of the fox.
Like grouse shooters, fox hunters, lampers, hare coursers, badger baiters and of course meat eaters, anglers do what they do simply because they enjoy doing it.
The cameras never detected some species that are believed to still exist in the area, such as black bears, long-tailed weasels, ringtails, badgers, and spotted skunks.
We had to slightly badger him to wear the antlers, but he finally gave in. The Sun
It was through him that Mr Jackson became hooked on watching the badgers in their natural habitat.
However, the plans must change as the proposed route runs through a badger sett and it would be illegal to disturb them.
Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.
The Badgers didn't turn over the ball (8.8 miscues per game), didn't allow many baskets easy or otherwise (56.9 points per game) and didn't allow many teams to crash the offensive glass (they corraled 73 percent of the available rebounds on the defensive boards). Wisconsin - Team Notes
There is an abundance of native birds living alongside badgers, deer and the marauding foxes which cleared out the bantams of a previous tenant.
Hang on - all right, registry is Brunei, uh, Badger belonging to the air force. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
Both animals are related species and are members of the Mustelid family, which also includes mink, badgers and weasels.
It didn't take long before the spilt food attracted mice, and the mice attracted badgers, and the badgers attracted crazy porcupine things that we call Critters.
‘This is not an argument for wiping badgers off the face of the earth,’ he writes.
On the night of the shooting, Jaw had been badgering her about her past relationships and insisted on seeing copies of recent e-mails.
There are 11 species of skunks, which are divided into four genera: Mephitis (hooded and striped skunks, two species), Spilogale (spotted skunks, two species), Mydaus (stink badgers, two species), and Conepatus (hog-nosed skunks, five species). Ferret frenzy « knitnut.net
And to honey badgers, cobras and large-eyed tree snakes called boomslangs, the nest is a dependable larder.
She didn't want to do it but he pressured her and badgered her until she finally gave in.
A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
Badger (Taxidea taxus) — A few limb bones found at Tseh So. Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
In fact, the name Dachshund is German for "badger dog, " indicating why these dogs were originally bred - to hunt badgers.
The next day she "badgered" Mr Self to let her lead a particular climb but he chose a less difficult one for her to lead. Evening Mail news round-up
They do, however, both belong to the same Mustelidae family which also encompasses badgers, skunks and otters, and that's close enough for us.
Back on the land, ferret badgers take turns with otters, ground squirrels and crab-eating macaques to stalk out their territory on the numerous white sandy beaches.
But there are badgers who spend less time burrowing into the ground than this side. Times, Sunday Times
We are the only ones whom Cleon, the great bawler, does not badger. The Wasps
Dad's been badgering me to get a webcam for ages - since I arrived in Japan, actually - so we could videoconference with each other.
The badger population can be sustained only if food is available to support it. Times, Sunday Times
Often the result of one partner badgering the other into making a bit of a show.
He was one of those people who seem to live a long way inside their heads, like a badger or a rabbit or whatnot down its hole. PROSPECT HILL
There will be a reduced risk to badgers themselves, cattle and other wildlife if the density of infectious badgers is low. Times, Sunday Times
Q Mike, this statement says that "browbeat" and "badger," those two words, what the prosecutor tried to do. Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
Badgers are relatively large members of the weasel family.
I must say it's quite refreshing to see a badger that is quite so despicable. Times, Sunday Times
They are carnivores like the stoat, weasel, otter and badger.
Badgers and their setts are protected under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, which makes it illegal to kill, injure or take badgers, or interfere with a sett.
But we've found that if badger is really fresh and is soaked in milk then it's nowhere near as gamey and strong.
There are some lovely examples of peculiar collective nouns in the English language, like an exultation of larks, a pride of lions, a cete of badgers and a convocation of eagles. A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow
I was born in this house and as a boy, I remember often seeing foxes, badgers and weasels around the place.
My guess is, that clerk didn't feel stupid about it at all, until the Times reporter started badgering him.
Since they have very coarse fur and stout claws, badger hygiene tends to be an extremely noisy affair.
They are carnivores like the stoat, weasel, otter and badger.
The location: otters and badgers are your only neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
The general opinion is that it's not a fox but a badger. Times, Sunday Times
The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
After last year's triumph, you are cordially invited to bring your otters, voles, badgers and weasels for a day's work experience.
They are hunted by coyotes, badgers, foxes, owls, and wolverines.
(For the satisfaction of his patients, I may observe, parenthetically, that the skull and the "wombat" -- that last is a creature between a miniature pig and a very small badger -- were not precisely packed up with the sarsaparilla!) The Caxtons — Complete
I was born in this house and as a boy, I remember often seeing foxes, badgers and weasels around the place.
It confuses the birds, upsets the badgers and mortifies the poets. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this year, animal welfare officers in West Lothian discovered a destroyed sett and two dead badgers, one of them a cub.
The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
Now look here, if you're reading this, who's grooming the badgers for the badger parade?
The Malay badger (_Mydaus meliceps_) is confined to the mountains of Java (where it is called the teledu), Sumatra and Borneo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods.
Up through the snow appeared a badger . He eyed the mitten and began to climb in.
Off to a day of badgering and haggling in dark little storefronts full of stoppered glass bottles full of writhing mists. Valentines, part the first
It also walks on the soles of its feet like a bear, but the resemblance ends there, as the badger is actually from the same family as otters and weasels.
His daughter was always badgering him to let her join the club.
The location: otters and badgers are your only neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
Tom has been badgering his uncle to buy him a camera.
My girlfriend badgered me to buy a necklace for her.
Fishers are among the least understood of the weasel family, or mustelids, which also includes martens, minks, ermines, ferrets, badgers, otters, and wolverines.
Is the News of the World suggesting that the BBC should have released his name sooner so that other journalists could start badgering him earlier over the affair?
Was it just out of sheer cruelty or were badgers a pest then? Times, Sunday Times
Female badgers may give birth to as many as five offspring.
With three scoreless innings from the Badgers, things were starting to look up heading into the seventh.
This is merely badgering the witness and editorialising, so you know, Senator, on both grounds your propositions are out of order.
As the scientific group pointed out, "agricultural and veterinary leaders continue to believe, in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, that the main approach to cattle TB control must involve some form of badger population control". Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
I always think, when 1 see those badgerly virgins fond of a parrot, a squirrel, a monkey or a lap-dog, that their ima-gination makes out husband and children in the animals Poor things! Sir Charles Grandison
I thought they were skinny badgers or fat weasels.
Come, now - explain your ingenious little riddle, and don't go on badgering and bullyragging people in this mysterious way.
I'm always putting in feeders for birds, badgers and hedgehogs. Times, Sunday Times
Female badgers may give birth to as many as five offspring.
There are a very few words - brock, for badger being one, combe, meaning a deep valley, and which appears in some English village names and in contemporary Welsh, another, torr, a mountain peak - which seem to have survived, at least among those who speak preciously or somewhat pedantically today. Excerpt: The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
I must say it's quite refreshing to see a badger that is quite so despicable. Times, Sunday Times
Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods.
They are carnivores like the stoat, weasel, otter and badger.
Above all, though, I've constantly badgered my husband, friends and colleagues asking: ‘What's the time?’
The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.
Five endemic mammal species are considered vulnerable, including Acerodon leucotis, the Palawan treeshrew (Tupaia palawanensis), the Palawan stink badger (Mydaus marchei), the Palawan binturong (Arctictis binturong whitei), and a Sunda tree squirrel (Sundasciurus rabori). Palawan rain forests
It was not possible to identify whether badgers or cattle were the source of infection. Times, Sunday Times
I lived as a badger for six weeks. Times, Sunday Times
But the Conservatives argued the Government should be bringing forward specific plans for a badger cull immediately.
Ancient burial sites across Salisbury Plain could soon be fenced off to prevent badgers from tunnelling through the archaeology.
Prairie dogs also provide food for the swift fox, the coyote, weasels, snakes, badgers, hawks and golden eagles as well as crucial habitat for many other native plants and animals.
But there are badgers who spend less time burrowing into the ground than this side. Times, Sunday Times
He was able to confirm the presence of a badger at North Wood by the discovery of its hairs at the entrance to an enlarged fox hole.
Father was badgered into coming with me.
Today the bags under his eyes are big and dark enough to trap a badger and a grey grizzle of beard coats his jowls.
Emanuel badgered and bothered the home player-manager sufficiently on the edge of his own box to win possession before striding confidently downfield.
Was it just out of sheer cruelty or were badgers a pest then? Times, Sunday Times
Foxes, red squirrels, badgers, hares, otters, Scottish wild cats, seals and bottle-nose dolphins can be seen if you have the dedication to find them.
We want to make sure the release sites have no slug pellets, dogs, badger sets or ponds which the hedgehogs could fall into.
The rest included poaching of game birds, hare coursing and badger baiting. Times, Sunday Times
What a joy it is to see badgers. Times, Sunday Times
As a young boy, I once had to watch a father sorrowfully attempt to disregard the constant badgering of people attending the funeral of his teenage son, turning a deaf ear to rumours surrounding the circumstances of the boy's death. Fahad Faruqui: (Not) Giving In To Gossip
A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
The agency's engineers are now installing a cat flap-style door at the entrance to the sett which allows the badgers out but not back in.
The rest included poaching of game birds, hare coursing and badger baiting. Times, Sunday Times
A Jets P.R. man told Revis to vamoose when Francesa kept badgering Revis about a no-call on his 100-yard interception return against Miami. Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
I accept that when the Assembly Government wanted 400 road kills to assess the corelation between Bovine Tb in cattle and badgers, there could have been a theoretical benefit in that the proof would have been available sooner, but that position is long gone. More on the Badger Cull.
In this way, the badger is emblematic of the poet's struggle with self and with his artistic creativity, as well as with the ordered, yet harsh and brutal world of reality.
In particular, they wanted to strengthen the law against badger digging.
Highway engineers also plan to put up fencing along large stretches of the bypass to stop newts, badgers and foxes from straying onto the road.
Step one of the cull will be to gas the badgers' burrows. The Sun
Farmers are using these traps to catch anything that is a 'problem animal' such as caracal, jackals and honey badgers. ANC Daily News Briefing
Then comes the Canada otter; the vison or minx; the clever little tree-loving raccoon; the American badger, differing from his European relative; and the pekan. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
We have been called out to rescue all sorts of animals from kittens, badgers, foxes and even a deer.
Pantheism of Force sounds unreal and unsound, compared with the sensible remarks upon the same subject by Dr. Badgers337 who sees the abstruseness of the doctrine and does not care to include it in hard and fast lines or to subject it to mere logical analysis. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In the 1997 report, the group I chaired made a series of recommendations for controlling the disease including work related to husbandry, badgers and vaccination.
While Tanek was limping so heavily it was as if Valeska was watching a badger, ward the wolves away by its heavy-footed trot.
Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function.
I'm writing this from the 33rd level of my basement lair, 666 feet under the soil of Montana, where I've hyperbarically enclosed myself in my badgerproof vault. Sadly, No!
Stop badgering your father with questions!
A little higher off the forest floor, they can tick red squirrels, badgers, otters and foxes off their nature checklist, and if they are lucky, spot herds of red deer bounding over the hillside.
Other predators resident on the conservancy, which the lion could expect to encounter are the leopard, hyaena, jackal, lynx-like caracal, honey badger, serval and the small spotted genet. Rare White Lions Return To The Wild | Impact Lab
A member of the mustelid family, which includes the stoat and badger, the polecat is the size of a ferret. Times, Sunday Times
She badgered me for weeks until I finally gave in.
A crane, for example, shot by Fritz, and an animal which they called a marmot, but which to me seemed much more like a badger. Swiss Family Robinson
In the forests one can find moose (Alces alces), Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus), lynx (Lynx lynx), common hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), widely spread varying hare (Lepus timidus), badger (Meles meles), ermine (Mustela erminea), weasel (Mustela nivalis), common marten (Martes martes) racoon-like dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides). Kazakh upland
Medium-sized mammals, such as chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), honey badger (Mellivora capensis), aardvark (Orycteropus after), and rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) are all found in this ecoregion. Montane fynbos and renosterveld
She had hoped her brief explosion in words would have ceased his badgering.
Bibby's brainwave for Badger's bins Redundant storage bins at Wilton have a new use - as havens for badgers.
The captive badger is taken to the ‘sporting’ venue - a trench covered by Perspex - and pitted against terriers.
The ‘graves’ were later found to be badger setts but Mrs Bryden said she and Huntley had discussed the possibility that the girls could be dead.
The wood has deer, dormice, badgers and 24 species of butterfly. Times, Sunday Times
Fife Constabulary's wildlife crime officer described baiting, specially trained dogs being set on badgers, as brutally vicious.
She badgered me for weeks until I finally gave in.
The reality is that badgers have always had a strong grip on human imagination. Times, Sunday Times
So you can see the sleeping badgers. Times, Sunday Times
But if we are going to eradicate Bovine Tb, we have to slaughter all cattle which are suspect (which we do) and all badgers (which we don't). More on the Badger Cull.
We lived on a safe street, where Badger still managed to get in plenty of trouble, the most famous incident being chasing the tires of Meredith's Vice Principal's bicycle, barking loudly and "harrying" the poor guy until he finally ran off the sidewalk and landed in our neighbor's ivy. Best Products & Practices
Red squirrel, badger, mink and roe deer live in the reserve. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
So now we have a short break from such activities, but, if anyone is up for helping out, we will possibly sab some mink hunters in the summer; we'll be working to protect badgers from baiting in South Yorkshire, and from culling further afield, from May; and we'll begin the next sabbing season in August/September at fox cub hunts. UK Indymedia Features
The fine literary novelist Philip Hensher—whose "King of the Badgers" had been widely expected to feature on the list—had the most vinegary line on the subject: "Perhaps one shouldn't be surprised," he wrote in a column in the Sunday Telegraph, "since four of the five judges have themselves written thrillers in an amateur capacity—some quite good, some, such as chair of the judges Dame Stella Rimington's faltering efforts, atrociously bad. Kapow! Superheroes Still Pack a Punch
How many nine-year-olds can be bothered to empathise with the serving staff in the local mall, when their time could be much more profitably filled by badgering their parents for junk food?
The so-called ‘dawn horse’, or Eohippus, was most likely not related to horses at all, but was very like a modern-day hyrax - that is, a rock badger or coney.
And hedgehogs released into areas of excellent habitat hightailed it out of there if they smelt badger. Times, Sunday Times
And then, surprisingly, the cage door is opened and the badger runs free and back to the safety of his sett. Do we have to shoot the badgers?
He added: 'We would allow them to set what they deemed to be the minimum acceptable badger population. Times, Sunday Times
Kew Gardens had a thriving hedgehog population until the mid 1980s when badgers first arrived there. Times, Sunday Times
It was not possible to identify whether badgers or cattle were the source of infection. Times, Sunday Times
The location: otters and badgers are your only neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
A great idea, except it doesn't really matter, because nobody minds if you betray them or not - next time, they'll still be badgering you for help.
The multimillion-pound publicly funded operation comes weeks after the government said that 11,000 badgers were shot last year to protect cattle from tuberculosis. Times, Sunday Times
Badgers had undermined the foundations of the church.
In their search for food, most of which is comprised of burrowing rodents, badgers tear up large areas of earth with powerful digging claws on their forefeet.
The new wood will link two other copses to create a two-hectare area and an ideal habitat for birds and animals including badgers and foxes that are rare to the Dales.
The badger sett had twelve entrances to what must have been a labyrinth of tunnels.
She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something.
Nature lovers today spoke out against plans to build a residential home for the elderly in Church Road, Hadleigh after it was revealed the move could destroy a badger sett.
Management of the trial was designed to minimise adverse welfare effects on the badgers and included a three-month period in the spring during which no culling took place in order to protect lactating sows and their cubs.
English Heritage is developing a management strategy to restore Bronze Age burial mounds that have been damaged by burrowing badgers and to protect those that remain untouched.
They took one look at the clearly uncooked meat coated in a layer of flesh-eating insects and set about badgering us like a pair of rabid wolverines.
Rosemary says they thrive here because the bracken is always being beaten down by the many badgers that emerge after dark from two different setts in the wood. Wildwood
Anne Booth, who farms near Settle, is barely a quarter way through lambing but already has lost a number of healthy lambs to foxes, crows and, for the first time this year, badgers, which she believes have killed four lambs.
Badgers actually live together in large underground catacombs called ‘setts.’
No one will badger, harass, bother or hound you about your progress, or lack thereof.
Scientific evidence suggests that badgers are one of the most likely carriers of the disease that is infecting cattle. Times, Sunday Times
Every Friday, the Boy tried to start his homework right when he got back, since the Twin always badgered him to, but it never worked.
You are unlikely to see badgers by chance. Times, Sunday Times
Badger is a Jack Russell Terrier, a little taller and rangier than most, but he has the total Jack Russell personality. Best Products & Practices
Reporters constantly badger her about her private life.
Business Week, which wants to be the house journal for Web 2.0 badgers, has no doubts.
Yet another witness described how Wright, an Ernie's customer, "badgered" Doisy to go on a date but was rebuffed. Kansas City Star: Front Page
You, you worthless cunny have the badger faced cheek to ask us to tighten our belts. Archive 2008-06-01
My guess is that if she felt 'badgered' then it was likely because Palin wasn't answering the question. Palin talks about controversies and future with Oprah
We had to slightly badger him to wear the antlers, but he finally gave in. The Sun
We follow them on their travels to get the low-down on the next big thing, which, I am told, might just be roast badger.
The caravan stood in the middle of what was effectively a huge badger sett. Times, Sunday Times
Or the permanent secretary at the department for the environment could slip a couple of badgers into his satchel when they are discussing TB. Times, Sunday Times
Some terriers' tails were cropped because it made it easier for them to get into badger setts, fox dens and the like.
It's the badger living up to it's cute and cuddly public image.
Juxtaposed with this is the idea that the blatantly violent removal of the badger from the sett and the unceremonious act of the diggers disturbs and changes nature irreparably.
A fox, a badger and a mole. Times, Sunday Times
I'm glad I'm not the only one to find Dimbleby's show increasingly an excuse for him to indulge his ego and behave pompously, as he tries to cram a quart into a pint pot by badgering his 'guests' with interruptions and snidey remarks to make himself look of a superior intelligence. Johnson, Benn and Harman Shine on Question Time

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