gopher

Example Sentences

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The idea is to shoot the gophers as they pop up out of their holes, but as I watch the guy ahead of me, my heart sinks.

From Literature

“G is for the gopher, digging in its burrow,” Little Britches remarked.

From Literature

When the New England Patriots signed Mike Vrabel as a young linebacker in 2001, they sent a gopher from the team’s personnel department to scoop him up at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal

Animals, like pocket gophers, deer mice, shrews, voles, and other small mammals, were still in their winter burrows.

From Literature

“It’s not fair to have France on a test if Zeke can just ask his knee,” said a gopher who Zeke didn’t even know.

From Literature