gopher
Example Sentences
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But the movie is remembered primarily for Bill Murray as the club’s greenkeeper and his battles with a spirited gopher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 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
Its two baseball fields were so pockmarked by gopher holes that even walking over them was difficult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024
Downtown's Pershing Square supports mourning doves, Vaux's swifts, gopher snakes and exotic streaktails, a type of fly that feeds on aphids.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
The earth was perfect for a gopher hole too, black and soft and yet with a little clay in it so that it didn’t crumble and the tunnels didn’t cave in.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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