gopher
Example Sentences
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This year, while setting up a bubble machine to shower celebrants, Leigh saw a gopher pop its head up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
His Turner Endangered Species Fund, launched in June 1997, has worked to save gopher tortoises, monarch butterflies and leopard frogs, working mainly with private landowners.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Five years ago, according to the report, the city was in the middle of the pack at 49th, only to sink steadily into a gopher hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
The trust removed poison from the course’s maintenance shed, along with poison and gopher traps throughout the site, Garrison said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
He growled, worried the stick as though he’d caught a gopher, then dropped it and with an eager bite tore into the blanket that fell from her arm.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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