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
• And Matthew, their three children, and the legendary Ma Mac get to be the lucky guinea pigs.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
• 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
• That there wouldn't even be the time or extra money for a class guinea pig.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2018
• Sturino swears that her boyfriend is her best guinea pig—but still!).
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 23 May 2018
• 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
• The inn has no pet-type restrictions, so pack up the bird, guinea pig, and hamster, too.
  — Laurie Wilson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• 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
• She’s even helped a family find a cage for a guinea pig in need of a proper home.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• Stop quivering like a bunch of nervous guinea pigs and get out of our way.
  — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• 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
• The perfect guinea pigs, the two key players, were his eldest daughters, Susie and Rosie, then about 7 and 8.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2015
• 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
• The Grizzlies are the first guinea pig in the Ben Simmons experiment.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• In all, 81 creatures — miniature horses, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks and other birds — were killed.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
• Humans generally don’t want to be proverbial guinea pigs for new medicines or consumer products.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024