squirrel

Example Sentences

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While some travel nurses squirrel away the extra money to pay off debt or buy a home, Panakos left it all on the field.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

It also wants support for fertility control research and deployment, and protection and enforcement of red squirrel habitat.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Rattlesnakes like to hide in complex rocky outcrops, tall grass and squirrel burrows.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Despite being much more closely related to mice than to monkeys, squirrel evolution followed the primate playbook.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

I was as pink as a sunburnt huckleberry, and as lively as a young squirrel in a corn crib.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls