How to Use aardvark in a Sentence
aardvark
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Brown turns to a page that shows how to draw … an aardvark.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
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Winsol is the first healthy aardvark baby to be born at the Zoo since 1994.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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Since then, the zoo has had aardvarks, sloths, meerkats, manatees and more on the show.
—Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 7 Apr. 2020
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And late last month, an aardvark and four meerkats were killed in a fire at London Zoo.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
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Ali the aardvark gave birth to the 3-pound baby boy late in December.
—The Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 1 Jan. 2018
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Winsol is the first healthy aardvark baby to be born at the zoo since 1994, zoo officials say.
—Sarah Hager, Cincinnati.com, 6 Jan. 2018
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Shoaf goes back and forth between flashbacks of two boys at a zoo looking at an aardvark.
—Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 12 Apr. 2018
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The virus can mutate, or someone can eat a bat or an aardvark and hop on an airliner.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2020
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Two Ohio zoos worked together to save an ailing aardvark last month.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2023
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For the first time in over 35 years, a baby aardvark is padding around California's San Diego Zoo.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
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My favorite creatures were the South African aardvarks with their pig snouts, rabbit ears and insanely long tongues.
—Paul Boorstin, latimes.com, 30 July 2017
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As for the aardvark motif, that remains as vague and peculiar as the rest of this uncertain journey.
—Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
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How do scientists get milk from an aardvark or an orangutan?
—Zoe Sayler, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
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In an upcoming special on Sept. 6, Arthur, the bespectacled aardvark, and his gang will bring a new friend into the fold: a Sikh boy named Samir.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2021
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An aardvark joined the Western Sculpture Park’s 15-piece collection last month.
—Jasmine Johnson, Twin Cities, 16 July 2019
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But his luck runs out when Marshmello attempts to draw Logic, who ends up looking like the cartoon aardvark Arthur.
—Rebecca Schiller, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2018
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Arthur Everyone loves Arthur the aardvark, Internet meme superstar, and his band of friends.
—Corey Atad, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
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An aardvark is an odd African nocturnal mammal sometimes called an anteater.
—Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018
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The ungulates group itself is puzzling to researchers because some of them seem elephant-like, while others are more like aardvarks and moles.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 June 2017
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After over 250 episodes and movie specials, everyone’s favorite aardvark Arthur is coming to an end on PBS tonight with four very special episodes.
—Vulture, 21 Feb. 2022
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Staff and firefighters tried to remove animals from the area as quickly as possible but were unable to rescue Misha, a nine-year-old aardvark, and the four meerkats.
—Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017
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This fall, a camel, an aardvark, a frog, and two dolphins are moving into a new retirement community in Queens.
—Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 27 May 2021
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Arthur is an aardvark, though there are differences between the actual animal and him.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
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An educational cartoon about an aardvark that has theme song by Bob Marley's son?
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
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Fruitafossor, by contrast, was like a Jurassic aardvark, with powerful limbs that appear well-suited to tearing open termite nests.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2019
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The southern variety lays clutches of eggs that hatch into around 40 to 50 needy babies, often in underground aardvark burrows.
—National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2018
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The unflappable Luke Skywalker, formerly a shimmering, golden Jedi, has become an aged, crotchety beard-o who drinks green sludge from the teat of a space aardvark.
—Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 4 May 2018
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Hippos and aardvarks also give milk without being anesthetized.
—Zoe Sayler, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
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Others scavenged, like raccoons, or dug into insect nests like today's aardvarks.
—Author: Carl Zimmer, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
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Others scavenged, like raccoons, or dug into insect nests like today’s aardvarks.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2017
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