How to Use pika in a Sentence

pika

noun

• The virus causes rabbits and their close relatives—like hares and the mountain-dwelling pika—to drop dead, sometimes with signs of blood near their noses and mouths.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2020
• The eradication policy was introduced in 2000 and calls for the culling of two mountain-dwelling herbivores, the plateau pika and the zokor.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 May 2023
• Closer to the chinchillas in size and habitat is the American pika, a mountain-dwelling relative of rabbits and hares.
  — Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
• Native to the Tianshan Mountains of northwestern China, the Ili pika was discovered in 1983, and few have shown their squeal-worthy faces since.
  — National Geographic, 14 June 2018
• Members of the public interested in joining the pika watch can register with the zoo online.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The American pika is a type of mammal that closely resembles a rabbit.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
• But the cooler climes in high altitudes are growing warmer, and that’s left the pika’s vulnerable to overheating in summer.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
• That means considering the smaller animals, such as shrews, voles, jumping mice, and pika, too.
  — Starre Vartan, National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2019
• An animal, probably a pika, had eaten about a dozen quarter-sized holes into Kostanich’s shirt.
  — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
• The American pika, a relative of the rabbit, is usually found at high elevations.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The common dishes are red rice, barbecue ribs, tinaktak, kadun pika, kelaguen, eskabeche, pancit, japchae, potato salad, poke, lumpia, adobo and of course, the military-menu staple, Spam.
  — Author: Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Aug. 2017
• In addition, some animals, such as Vietnam’s saola and China’s Ili pika, were spotted once again after having gone missing for years.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2019
• Dependent upon snowfall for insulation in a place where the snowpack has been reduced by 41 percent over the past 30 years, the cute-as-a-bunny pika (which has already vanished from a large section of the Sierra Nevada) may be in trouble here, too.
  — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
• With a temperature increase in this area of 3.4 degrees over the past century, researchers are concerned about Rocky’s heat-sensitive pika—an indicator species for climate change.
  — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
• On June 7, this story was updated to correct inaccuracies about the American pika.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 29 May 2019
• Because of mini bears—the mice, rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, pikas, raccoons, porcupines, gray jays, and other small animals that reside in popular front-country and backcountry campsites.
  — Andrew Skurka, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2019
• The American pika, a cold-loving relative of rabbits, is often erroneously reported to be moving to higher locations as the climate warms.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 29 May 2019
• In Zion, as maximum temperatures in the summer have risen, the heat-intolerant American pika, a tiny mammal related to rabbits, has disappeared.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024