How to Use flying squirrel in a Sentence

flying squirrel

noun

• My father-in-law, who, as a child, had shared a home with a deer and a flying squirrel, opened the door.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
• The flying squirrel may be the archetype, and some spiders, lizards and frogs can sail through the air and come in for a soft landing.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• Roth brought along a flying squirrel that ran around inside his shirt, while the kids squealed just thinking about the feel of it.
  — Kitty Leshay, Courant Community, 2 May 2018
• The Chinese flying squirrel isn’t the only rodent recently added to the tree of life.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 July 2019
• There is evidence that some of the creatures could glide like flying squirrels and others could swim.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Those include a baby flying squirrel, a baby fox and bear cubs.
  — Felicia Fonseca, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2021
• Even three species of North American flying squirrel do it.
  — Cara Giaimo New York Times, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• But then, out of nowhere, a flying squirrel decides to photobomb the moment, and a camera flash only adds to the mayhem.
  — Mary Beth Griggs, Popular Science, 1 May 2016
• Watch this professional jumper leap off a cliff in Italy wearing a flying squirrel suit!
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 30 June 2022
• Most have obvious control surfaces — the skin flaps of the flying squirrel are a good example.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• When the fight resumes, Torres gets the upper hand, doing a flying squirrel move off the side of the cage and then grappling the giant man into submission.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• Before the chicks are born, the male is the primary caregiver, sitting and warming the eggs and fending off any stray snakes or flying squirrels that make their way up the spindly pine.
  — Marialuisa Rincon, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2018
• Carson, the oldest of eight children, already had a dog, two flying squirrels and four other guinea pigs, all female.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 25 May 2018
• Volaticotherium, from about the same time, resembled a flying squirrel.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2019
• Hoary marmots, flying squirrels and tundra swans prepare for sleep in their respective safe havens.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
• In the far north, where there currently is no night, nocturnal animals like flying squirrels and owls need to go about their business in daylight.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• When the animal isn't gliding about like a flying squirrel, owners like to ferry the animals around like pocket pets.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
• Jumpers can glide forward at speeds upwards of 140 miles per hour, steering through the air with mind-boggling accuracy like a high-powered flying squirrel.
  — National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
• A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021
• At this point, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission scaled up the flying squirrel investigation.
  — Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
• On that 30-degree morning, other traps contained a northern flying squirrel, an American red squirrel and two more voles.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2021
• Pterosaurs had a muscular membrane stretched between a ridiculously long ring finger and their ankles -- almost like a modern flying squirrel, Gold said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• That discovery happened by accident—while the researchers were studying lichen, one pointed a UV flashlight at a flying squirrel that was chowing down at a birdfeeder.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
• Wintertime in a remote Montana forest heralds the arrival of mating season for the flying squirrel—and one of nature's most spectacular air shows.
  — Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2016
• Anchiornis probably glided down from trees, like a flying squirrel, but likely was incapable of powered flight.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
• Gliding mammals, like flying squirrels, sugar gliders and colugos are pretty impressive creatures, with some capable of flying up to 300 feet in a single jump between trees.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• The cavities that woodpeckers create and later abandon provide living space for other creatures — birds such as titmice, nuthatches and wrens, but also for flying squirrels, Mason said.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• The changes provided a foundation for later adaptations to feed on plants and larger animals; over time these pioneers became the Mesozoic equivalents of otters, raccoons, flying squirrels and aardvarks.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
• Two branches of modern mammals developed gliding at least 100 million years later, leading to today's marsupial sugar gliders and flying squirrels.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• Southern species of flying squirrel colonizing Michigan.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2022

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024