How to Use guinea pig in a Sentence

guinea pig

noun

• He volunteered to act as a guinea pig in the experiment.
• And some of us out here are just the guinea pigs for that.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2018
• House of Holland and Self-Portrait are the guinea pigs.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• Will these treats be a reward for the good deed of being a guinea pig?
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2020
• But the star says being a guinea pig wasn’t always easy.
  — Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Also in need of a new home is Breeze, a 1-year-old, white and brown guinea pig that was a stray.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• The capybara is the world's largest rodent and a close relative of the guinea pig.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
• Now Windows Insiders get to act as the guinea pigs for the rest of us.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 26 July 2018
• The six human guinea pigs at the heart of the research are seated on one side of the cabin.
  — Angus Whitley, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019
• If all this sounds confusing, think how the guinea pigs must feel.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• That’s like comparing two killer whales to a guinea pig.
  — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• The backyard is full of the bones of our pets, mostly cats, but some gerbils, too, and even one guinea pig.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al.com, 26 June 2019
• In a video posted on Instagram, the light brown guinea pig runs back and forth to dunk the 4.4 cm spheres in a tiny hoop.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
• To do that, Xhaka has become a sleep science guinea pig of sorts.
  — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 14 June 2018
• Screens shielded both Rose and the guinea pig from actual bites.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
• And the class pets — Reeses the guinea pig and Amigo the fish — would go home with her, along with every picture that her kids had drawn of them.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
• No one wants to be a guinea pig so someone else can get re-elected to office.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 9 Sep. 2020
• Opinion: Kids have been used like guinea pigs on Big Tech’s platforms.
  — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• The guinea pig comes inside a nearly 12-inch-tall plastic hutch.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• That bedding you bought online for your child’s guinea pig will come in a bag that’s wrapped in paper and shipped in a box.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• More death: more dogs, more cats, a hamster, a guinea pig, a rabbit, some chickens.
  — Sarah Paley, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
• He’s turned himself into a kind of guinea pig for longevity.
  — Jonathan Moens, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
• To make cuy, a Peruvian dish, West had to watch several YouTube videos on how to skin and boil a guinea pig.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• There are also 53 spaces for small pets, like guinea pigs and rabbits.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
• Fried chicken and fries may be delicious but so is guinea pig.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2019
• The short-haried, brownish rodents are related to the guinea pig but are much larger and weigh 50 times as much.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
• But a guinea pig named Snow won’t be going anywhere, says his adopter, Emily De Wolfe.
  — Mandy Behbehani, SFChronicle.com, 3 June 2020
• Capybaras are the world’s largest rodent and are related to guinea pigs, hamsters and mice.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• Les Trois Chevaux will feature an entirely new menu, and Pépin had offered to be a guinea pig.
  — Rachel Felder, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• Moore recruited his lawn boy as a guinea pig, Suitor joked.
  — David A. Taylor, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024