porcupine

Example Sentences

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Rick: The hotel pretty much just got the porcupine and left.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

What followed was a comedy of errors including military drills that outpaced anything this group of office workers had in mind, a rogue porcupine, stranded airplanes and one syringe to the butt of an employee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

A bloodied but determined honey badger pursues a Cape porcupine in Botswana.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2025

There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America, but only one in the United States and Canada.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

His hair was short and wild as porcupine quills, his face starved and sallow with grief.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich