chinchilla

Example Sentences

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I’m early, as usual—partly to avoid bumping into Eddie in the hallway but also because I was hoping to hold Charles the chinchilla for a couple of minutes before class starts.

From Literature

They lack the adorable charisma of chinchillas, porcupines, moles or rats, though.

From Salon

And soon, amid squeals of encouragement from my friends in the Small Pet Department, from the teeniest white mouse to the lumbering chinchilla, I left Pet-O-Rama with high hopes.

From Literature

It was a refuge for abandoned exotic pets that Floridians could no longer care for, as well as for orphaned native wildlife, including chinchillas, skunks, stingrays, lizards and alligators — around 250 of them, all told.

From New York Times

The SEC has argued that the test -- which has been applied to investments in everything from whiskey casks to chinchillas -- depends on the economic realities of transactions, not the labels applied to them.

From Reuters