How to Use critter in a Sentence

critter

noun

• The woods are filled with skunks, raccoons, and other critters.
• Moths are one of the worst critters to have in your home.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
• Here a group of researchers walked up and down the trails on the hunt for critters of the night.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
• But most of the time moose are shy and elusive critters.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
• The critters dig up the bulbs that my wife spends hours planting.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
• Whatever the reason the ferret left, the goal was to get the critter back on the ranch.
  — Tracy Harmon, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2021
• But there's no need to burn your house down to rid yourself of the critters.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
• One brush by a critter and the pod bursts open to scatter its seeds.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Roaches aren’t the worst critters in our homes, though.
  — Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2018
• In the wild side of life, nature’s fortune-tellers are the sky, the clouds, the meadows and many of the critters.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2018
• The first step to get rid of ants (or any critter for that matter) is to deep clean your home.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 29 Aug. 2023
• And any microbes and critters the ships picked up near the equator would be dumped, too.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
• The critters’ soft bodies can’t withstand the impact of the spray.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
• This goes for cats or any critter that needs to be taken care of.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
• Most of these critters will never reach adult life and learn to fly.
  — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• Over millions of years, as ocean critters died, their little shells fell to the floor of the then-Gulf.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• And then there’s the critters (this could be anything from squirrels to mice to ground hogs).
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Sep. 2019
• If the culprit is a weevil, go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief—and maybe even check the critter out.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 July 2022
• An overpacked pantry will give those critters lots of places to hide.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2025
• Dozens of dogs, cats and small critters found new homes today.
  — CNN, 23 Nov. 2019
• The coastal critter was dubbed the sheepshead fish for the way its mouth resembles the muzzle of a sheep, the BBC reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2021
• The only critter that would consume the entire root of a carrot and not the top is a vole.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2021
• And then there are all the things that come with being outside: sun, dirt, bugs and critters.
  — Stephanie Cain, The Seattle Times, 13 Sep. 2018
• One day, Shep came trotting home with a tiny critter in his jaw.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• Even after all that rest, the little critter still might not be ready to face 2022.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2021
• Keep an eye out for critters like lizards and June beetles, too.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The tourists watched and filmed the critters—until the rhinos shifted their focus.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• But all those names stem from one notable feature of the critter.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 10 July 2023
• Gilks is heard wondering what the creepy critters are in the video, and commenters shared in his wonder.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
• But unbeknownst to the critter, a large predator lurked nearby.
  — Michelle Mastro, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025