How to Use badger in a Sentence

badger

1 of 2 noun

• With the arrival of spring comes the emergence of new badgers in the state.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
• The badger saunters to the edge of the tunnel, pausing at the edge.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 4 Feb. 2020
• There are badgers in the area that also hunt the squirrels.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• For years, there has been a rumor that Clive Owen is afraid of badgers.
  — Pete Forester, Esquire, 24 Jan. 2017
• These honey badgers could change the world for the better.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 26 Jan. 2024
• Grit the honey badger is on a mission to taste honey for the first time.
  — smithsonianmag.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Or what if it is dug up by a badger and carried away by a magpie?
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• The badger can dig into ground squirrels' dens and then once the prey surfaces, the coyote can chase it down.
  — Alicia Lee, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
• Some men love the ritual of the badger brush and lathering up, etc.).
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• In the first few seconds, the honey badger and the jackals can be seen fighting over the python, dragging it along the ground in Chobe Park in Botswana.
  — Fox News, 11 Dec. 2019
• There is no plastic at all; the bristles on the lathering brush are made of badger hair.
  — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2019
• Also on the list: badger, coati, fox, ringtail cat and raccoon.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2020
• Or the coyote can drive their prey underground for the badger, who is a digging expert, to dig and kill.
  — Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
• In the light of the moon, from that night onward, the bunny band plays in the badger’s garden, causing the vegetables in it to grow like billy-o.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• And people would enjoy training their dog to kill a badger.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 22 June 2019
• Animal bristles from boars, hogs and badgers — used by mustache and beard groomers — were spared the chop.
  — Daniela Wei, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
• The singer Patrick Stickles boasts a rabid-badger snarl, and his band’s ruckus is worthy of both humming along to and kicking walls to.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2019
• Meanwhile, there are raccoons, owls, deer, rabbits, hawks, badgers, cougars, a lot of communing with nature and a big lump in the throat.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2016
• Worse, humans also hunt the animals — deer, badgers and hares — that wild Amur feed on.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• Theodore Roosevelt was gifted a badger by a girl in Kansas during a train stop.
  — Leanne Italie, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2022
• The badger didn’t seem to be perturbed, even though Vartiainen was only about 23 feet away.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2023
• Wolverines are technically a type of weasel but look more like a cross between a large badger and a small bear.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• Webster traced the legend back to Europe, where hedgehogs and badgers often stir this time of year.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• Or Mark Zuckerberg could go all honey badger about it and dare governments to come get him.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 26 June 2019
• As in a previous era, beavers evolved, along with anteaters, flying squirrels, badgers, and more.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• Some of these steps, like a bird spotting and approaching the badger, were plausible.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• The incredible video is far from the first time a badger has faced off with a predator larger than itself.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• The four-piece set includes AOS’s hero products: pre-shave oil, shaving cream, the badger brush shaving brush and after-shave balm.
  — Jessica Migala, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2019
• So did our ancestors — small mammals the size of squirrels or badgers — and the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• The trailer features Gru attempting a heist, fighting a feral honey badger, and putting up with the usual minion hijinks.
  — Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024

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badger

2 of 2 verb

• She finally badgered me into going.
• By the time the three of them were outside the drawbridge, the sun was badgered by clouds.
  — Kate Osana Simonian, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Pruitt didn’t sit back and wait or badger the judge for a ruling.
  — Eric Lipton and Coral Davenport, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2017
• At times, the approach has been simply to badger the pair.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 June 2021
• The little evil voice that badgered the Big Easy on the course followed him home.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 13 June 2016
• The police badgered him, Becky says, which led him to take his life.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• Reeves said that Dressler badgered her for more than a year to find room for a makerspace.
  — Deborah Fallows, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2016
• Each time my name gets printed in The Post, Reporters badger me from coast to coast.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• This did not go over well, as the palace had chastised the media for badgering him.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• Weist’s job seems to consist of badgering his charges to post more videos and herding them from one meet-and-greet to the next.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• Y’all have been badgering my ass to get a contract story the last three weeks.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2019
• The numbers are enough to make one wonder why DeSantis would want to badger the home of Mickey Mouse.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Her job is to safely drive the bus and stay on schedule, not badger people about wearing masks.
  — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• There were the oversized googly eyes, a jet pilot helmet straight out of Star Wars, and badger (maybe cat?) mask.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 25 Feb. 2020
• Presumably those praying for you haven’t just tried to badger you out of your beliefs?
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• The turning point came when his buddy Cesar tried to badger him into joining the swim team.
  — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2022
• First, badgering messages on owners’ smartphones and even on the screens inside the car.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• The one who will applaud his 30-point performances, but badger him for missed free throws, even if there’s only one.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
• When his team needs a big steal late in a game, Jaylen Clark can use his active hands and quick feet to badger his counterpart into a turnover.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• Among the 10 species reported taken were coyote, gray fox, beaver, badger and mink.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• This is hard to do if, say, you are sent one-view-only videos or photos or, as in Sam's case, being badgered over likes and follows.
  — Jenn Selby, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• After months of badgering them, my manager cried on the phone.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 16 June 2023
• To wit: At the Taste of Colorado a few years back, Michelle had to go all badger mama on several adults on her daughter’s behalf.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 8 Dec. 2019
• Many more took months of badgering to comply, and a few just ignored the requests entirely.
  — AJC.com, 27 Dec. 2016
• At one point in the trial, the judge admonished the attorney for badgering a witness.
  — J. C. Duffy, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• Holley told friends the woman was badgering her with angry phone calls.
  — CBS News, 26 June 2018
• Ray was the subject of some social media badgering after the Beyhive mixed her up with Rachel Roy.
  — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Britain is a nation of animal lovers, a place where citizens are willing to take to the streets over fox hunting and badger culling.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Trump has badgered the Federal Reserve to cut its policy rate, and market rates are low too.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• The lawyer said Ephron had been badgering Mayers for money and initiated a physical altercation at the face-to-face meeting.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024