badger
Example Sentences
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The proposed openings in the wall, about the size of a piece of paper, would provide passage for animals like bobcats, badgers and even female mountain lions and their young.
From Los Angeles Times
“I once panicked and asked a man if he had a preferred type of badger.”
From Literature
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“Boo and I will do errands in the morning and be home for lunch. While I’m gone, there will be no going in my room and no badgering Ray.”
From Literature
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Although she performed as a hostess in Washington—she preferred it greatly to Albany—she badgered Seward almost constantly to give up politics and settle for a quiet life lawyering in Auburn.
After successfully badgering his dad to take him to a local club to play on full-size tables at the age of eight, the young Hunter made the leap from table top snooker with aplomb.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.