gerbil

How To Use gerbil In A Sentence

• At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig.
• The experiment was explicitly designed to capture the natural seasonal changes in population densities of the gerbils.
• Popular names are Mongolian gerbil and clawed jird.
• I tried putting a little family of the babies into a cage in the plant case, hoping the mother who belonged to them would then appear and take care of them; but no, the entire colony trooped in and ran riot in the new place, and if a young gerbille was by chance left uncovered in the _melée_, a twentieth cousin would take it up tenderly as if it was its own mother, and replace it in the nest -- a very emblem of brotherly kindness and charity. Wild Nature Won By Kindness
• The couple also bought a fish and a gerbil. The Sun
• While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.
• The Jesuits Gerbillon and Verbiest followed the emperor Khamhi when he hunted in Tartary, Duhalde, Description de la Chine, tom.iv. p. 81, 290, &c., folio edit.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• These marks included distinctive spots and stripes on the back, shoulders, hips, hind legs, and rump of the gerbils.
• The world's thirstiest gerbil" interlude: The worst first sentences of novels from the past year. Wonkbook: House passes FinReg; unemployment insurance fails; CBO makes the case for stimulus
• These pythons actively hunt rats and gerbils, following them into their burrows.