How to Use porcupine in a Sentence

porcupine

noun

• Our kids need to see a skunk or a porcupine in the wild.
  — Roger Simmons, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 June 2017
• Or maybe the porcupine knows about the skunk and the concubine and just doesn’t care?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• The porcupine caribou come to the coastal plain in summer to give birth to their young.
  — Popular Science, 24 Nov. 2020
• One day, a few friends of mine who were hunters brought eight porcupines with them.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• This will anchor the porcupine body and stop it from rolling around.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• This should anchor the porcupine body and stop it from rolling around.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
• Quillbert, a porcupine, had been hit by a car in Texas.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• One side of the trail is framed by a wall of tall cholla, a plant famous for wicked barbed spines like those of a porcupine.
  — Jason H. Harper, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2021
• The video isn’t the first to show a porcupine defending itself from big cats.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• My shoulders, arms, hands, and head were full of needles, like a porcupine.
  — Longreads, 4 Mar. 2020
• These porcupines, which are native to South America, spend most of their time in the trees.
  — cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Living animals tend to have tails with weapons that are made of keratin, like the quills of a porcupine or the scales of a pangolin.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• The porcupine joins big brother Quilliam, who was born in 2019.
  — Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• The footage, filmed in December 2016, shows two porcupines running from something by the side of the road—what turns out to be a leopard.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• Kalunde’s grandfather, a healer, once watched a sick porcupine eat the roots of a plant known to be quite poisonous.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• While the boys took in the view at Glacier — its massive glaciers shrouded in glistening white snow — porcupines chewed flat all four of the hearse’s tires.
  — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• The baby porcupine is the third offspring born to Prickles and her mate Shadow.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2022
• The couple has seen bears, wild turkeys, porcupines, deer, and — a favorite — moose.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 16 Oct. 2019
• The song’s video shows a singing porcupine using Bourelly’s voice and later Skrillex’s voice.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023
• But the porcupine grew to an unimaginable size and transformed into a brown bear clawing its way out of the snow.
  — Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2021
• The reserve is home to over 80 sloths – and howling monkeys, porcupines and iguanas, too – so you’re bound to spot some wildlife on the ATV ride up the mountain.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
• Every game at a show near Tokyo, a porcupine curls up in a garden outside of Moscow and more.
  — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• The refuge also is home to mule deer, porcupines, coyotes, monarch butterflies and more than 600 species of plants.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 27 Sep. 2019
• Miraculously, none of the tines had been touched by porcupines or mice.
  — Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
• Before the impact, the area was richly forested and home to many species of dinosaur, as well as small mammals that were around the size of a porcupine.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
• The defense of the porcupine’s quills, which can rip through the predator’s mouth and throat, is the deterrent that protects the small creature in the violent woods.
  — Roger Wicker, WSJ, 4 May 2022
• The teaser also gives a sneak peek at snail, pig, black swan, seashell and porcupine costumes that haven't been announced yet.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The porcupine is the second-largest rodent in North America after the beaver.
  — AZCentral.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Up from the south to the north came possums, porcupines, hummingbirds and parrots, among others.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 12 Dec. 2017
• The goal is to turn themselves into prickly porcupines capable of denying China sea and air control near their shores.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024