terrapin

How To Use terrapin In A Sentence

• Terrapins have been observed in several of the marsh creeks, but not in all of the creeks where searches were completed.
• ‘There will be a demonstration on reptiles like snakes, terrapins, skinks and tortoises, that will look at how they adapt to the environment,’ says zoo educationist Imelda Matlala.
• We're forever called over to see little kids with terrapins in their pockets.
• Outlook: Terrapins lose three main cogs in their recent success - All-America G Juan Dixon, C Lonny Baxter and F Byron Mouton. USATODAY.com - USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 Poll
• The first stop allows youngsters to feed the deer and sheep, then the party moves onwards to stroke the ducks and, finally, to feed the rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and terrapins.
• Some persons," wrote the Dutch traveller, Van der Donck, in 1656, "prepare delicious dishes from the water terrapin, which is luscious food. Home Life in Colonial Days
• An old boating lake here is now a pond rumoured to be home to a couple of terrapins.
• Hamsters would be added to the mailman's shoulder as would parrots, guinea pigs, terrapins and wombats.
• Volunteers found 21 diamondback terrapins in abandoned crab traps pulled from the edge of the bay.
• The terrapin is a small turtle, found on the shores of Maryland and North America