How to Use chinchilla in a Sentence

chinchilla

noun
  • The collar of the coat is chinchilla.
  • The chinchillas were in the care of HAWS and remained so.
    Nicole Aimone, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
  • Three, the chinchilla children are home-schooled, and the father, Chum Chum, is their instructor.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • When that falls through, the bills stop getting paid, and Allison is forced to become the first farmhand in the South Downs to own a chinchilla coat.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Inside, three fish, two lizards, two rabbits, four cats, a chinchilla and a large dog shared a small living room.
    Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The apartment is home to two parrots, a duck, a chicken, a quail, a rabbit, guinea pigs, two iguanas and a chinchilla.
    NBC News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • There are the African sulcata tortoise and the bearded dragon, the chinchillas and the rabbits and the hedgehog; the horse and the heifers, the chickens and ducks, and the mama goats about to kid.
    Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Mink coats, fox earmuffs, chinchilla scarves are all sixty-five per cent off!
    Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Bobby the leopard gecko can store water and food in his tail, while Chilly the chinchilla has up to 80 hairs in each hair follicle.
    Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • The adorable group of finalists included a chinchilla named Ande, a sheep named Timmy, and a duck named Ping.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • During a blip in time in the late Jurassic, a dinosaur that weighed no more than a chinchilla flung itself from tree to tree, spread its wings and tried to soar.
    Sabrina Imbler New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
  • When the temperature drops, there's a chinchilla blanket ready to warm things up.
    Kristina Stewart Ward, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2010
  • Set in 1970s Las Vegas, there is a scene where ‘Ace’ gives ‘Ginger’ a suitcase full of jewels, and she is draped in a chinchilla coat on a bed.
    Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Finally, the video featured a chinchilla named Poppy rolling in a ball toward the Chiefs logo.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2023
  • This year’s theme is rescue animals, and in the finals, Stewie is up against a cat, duck, chinchilla and other critters.
    Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The pet cemetery in her yard includes such longtime library favorites as Basil the chinchilla and Nilla the ferret.
    al, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The future of cryptocurrencies might be found in the history of chinchillas.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023
  • One of them, the tall one, wore a massive oversize grenadier-style coat—a chinchilla of dark blue, double-breasted with a number of missing buttons.
    Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Give in to the melatonin in your bodies and indulge winter grogginess in this faux fur chinchilla blanket.
    Vera Castaneda, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • It was inspired by a cashmere robe with real chinchilla trim that cost thousands and thousands of dollars.
    Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2020
  • His showroom features chinchilla, sable, fox, and Blackglama mink.
    Janie Har, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Campers also have the chance to pet animals like a chinchilla, small alligator or bald python.
    Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • A little gray chinchilla hops down from its tower of power and approaches.
    Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • Goats, chickens, tortoises and chinchillas are housed there.
    Georgann Yara, azcentral, 11 July 2019
  • Along with the Burmese Python, Andersen brought an armadillo, a chinchilla, a leopard tortoise and an Australian blue-tongued skink.
    Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • In this way, KrioRus has cryopreserved 61 people and 31 pets, including a cat, a goldfinch, and a chinchilla.
    Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • The place would be used to house rabbits, guinea pigs and an occasional chinchilla — all animals that are in need of permanent homes.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • And what a car for us two chinchillas looking to detox: a 1960 Cadillac El Dorado in ecru with a Coke-bottle red interior.
    Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
  • Nothing the staff normally used — Dawn dish soap, chinchilla dust, chemical solvents — could get it off.
    Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 June 2020
  • Others waited in recovery: a hedgehog newly minus one eyeball, and a chinchilla who sacrificed a leg to the bars of her cage.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 12 May 2017

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