How to Use meerkat in a Sentence
meerkat
noun-
Click like to share and then go watch a YouTube about adorable meerkats.
— Ben Popken, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2017 -
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to meerkat.
— Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022 -
Nine of them were rescued, but one, a meerkat, perished in the fire.
— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 June 2023 -
Since then, the zoo has had aardvarks, sloths, meerkats, manatees and more on the show.
— Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 7 Apr. 2020 -
And late last month, an aardvark and four meerkats were killed in a fire at London Zoo.
— Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018 -
Then her meerkat starts pooping, while the two hot meerkats look on, appalled.
— Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 -
Silver told the court Hooker was in the process of returning the meerkat when the police called.
— Trevor Marshallsea, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018 -
Wingate knows the meerkats well and can reach out and delicately touch their backs.
— Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019 -
Then I got sucked into watching a YouTube video about meerkats.
— Colin Nissan, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2017 -
According to a map of the zoo, the café is adjacent to the meerkat enclosure.
— Saphora Smith, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2017 -
The first episode goes underground with meerkats, across plains with cheetahs and above the trees with a chimpanzee in Cameroon.
— Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018 -
The dye was used on the meerkats June 1, and one of them was found dead about 30 minutes later, officials said.
— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 June 2023 -
Officials said Misha died in the fire and the four missing meerkats were presumed to have perished as well.
— Bloomberg.com, 23 Dec. 2017 -
Puff adders can suppress their own odor to avoid detection by keen-nosed dogs and meerkats.
— Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 4 May 2017 -
How do groups of meerkats decide which direction to move?
— Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020 -
The zoo has suspended use of the dye until officials find out what happened to the meerkats.
— Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 June 2023 -
The meerkat family gets ready for bed with a few evening yoga stretches.
— Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021 -
Adult female meerkats who don't become queen wind up as her ladies-in-waiting.
— Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 May 2018 -
But the bloodiest, most homicidal of more than 1,000 species surveyed is the meerkat.
— Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2016 -
But recently he was asked to take over the role of Timon, the meerkat, for four months on a national tour.
— Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2022 -
After witnessing the death of his father, a young lion runs away and comes of age in the company of a warthog and meerkat.
— courant.com, 6 Nov. 2019 -
Last year, The El Paso Zoo offered to name a cockroach after a person's ex and feed it to a meerkat live on camera.
— Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2020 -
The meerkats were able to return this weekend back to their regular exhibit, and all are healthy.
— Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2017 -
Accountants at nearby cafes raise their heads like meerkats to see what’s the commotion.
— Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020 -
Once her rivals reach their reproductive age, the alpha meerkat either kills them, or they are run out of the group.
— Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 June 2022 -
That idea never sat very well with researchers studying species such as meerkats, Lukas contends.
— Tim Vernimmen, Scientific American, 20 June 2018 -
Problems for the zoo began on June 1, when the meerkat keepers noticed the meerkats were not acting normally.
— Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023 -
In 2019, the zoo honored Hogle by naming its new meerkat exhibit after him.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020 -
The Times has more intriguing and provocative takes on meerkats, honeybees, African wild dogs, baboons and rock ants.
— Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020 -
However, three of the meerkats died within 36 hours despite the life-saving efforts.
— Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
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