How to Use lemming in a Sentence

lemming

noun

• But hearing a lemming is only the first step in getting a meal.
  — Jacob Job, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2021
• The main prey on her newfound home, meanwhile, is a type of rodent known as a lemming.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 3 July 2019
• Now there seems to be something both defiant and lemming-like—and just plain stupid—about them.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• The birds lay eggs in shallow depressions on the ground and feed their young on rodents, mostly lemmings.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2017
• One key species that is being affected by climate change in the tundra is the lemming.
  — Devi Lockwood, Wired, 21 Sep. 2021
• Now, the conference, like a lemming off the cliff, is following the path of the other Power-5 conferences.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• In the Arctic, there’s small nibblers like lemmings, but there are also big nibblers with fangs, like wolves and foxes.
  — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• When lemmings are in plentiful supply, the owls will produce more eggs.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• When lemmings are abundant, snowies are able to successfully hatch and fledge more young.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2017
• Once again, yer a lemming following the other lemmings over the Windoze cliff.
  — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2007
• That’s the latest chapter in this tale of a CEO who followed his woke staff like a lemming off the cliff of cultural politics.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• Well, of course, the lemmings in the press spent the entire day painting the Tillerson firing as evidence of more White House dysfunction.
  — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• If we were intended to behave like lemmings, what a waste of the most marvelous gift God gave to man: our miraculous brain.
  — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• These dramatically kill ants that run across them—the problem is that all fire ants are not like lemmings.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2017
• Snowy owls raise their young on the tundra and rely mostly on lemmings, whose populations rise and fall, for food.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 15 Dec. 2017
• More lemmings means the owl population explodes— and that more birds than usual will winter in places people can see them.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2017
• More lemmings means the owl population explodes – and that more birds than usual will winter in places people can see them.
  — Tammy Webber, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2017
• Some years may see higher lemming populations, but that doesn't necessarily help the owls in the long run.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2021
• The animals, which have thick fur to survive cold environments and live to about age 4, eat fish, marine birds and small arctic rodents called lemmings.
  — Washington Post, 3 July 2019
• But there was no fountain of youth back then, Brenner noted, and the latest claims of its existence are sure to ultimately disappoint the long lines of lemmings.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Foxes in Canada's Ellesmere Island eat mostly lemmings, which are small rodents.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 July 2019
• The excuses are lemmings, following one another over the cliff.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• The world will soon be awash with a lemming-run of roadster owners bending their dealers' ears in search of handling fixes to rectify the dirt done them by Rabbit convertibles.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
• Don't back down Instead of letting others walk all over you, channel the Norwegian lemming, a cute little rodent that's bizarrely aggressive.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2015
• During the Arctic summer, snowy owls feed primarily on small rodents called lemmings.
  — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• Except that the Norwegian lemming, Lemmus lemmus, isn't quite normal.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015
• This technique is commonly found among Arctic animals, including hares, foxes, lemmings and a bird called the ptarmigan.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
• More lemmings feed more owls, but if a prosperous lemming season is not followed by another with the same productivity, an ecosystem can crash.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2021
• More lemmings feed more owls, but if a prosperous lemming season is not followed by another with the same productivity, an ecosystem can crash.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2021
• Distrust in institutions isn’t an artifact of a lemming-like following of Donald Trump (Letters, Aug. 23).
  — WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024