How to Use racoon in a Sentence

racoon

noun

• The scene starts out calm, but when a racoon brushes up against the buck’s front leg, all hell breaks loose.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• If you were exposed to this racoon, please contact your health provider.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
• The whole time, chillhop and lo-fi playlist streamed in the background, the Lo-Fi girl and Study Beats racoon both happy prisoners on our screens.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2021
• What’s valuable for a dog may be irrelevant to a cat or bear or racoon or human.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2018
• If the rummaging racoon, the intruder, or the erosion of civil liberties doesn’t wake you up at night, the drone will.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
• While waiting, many different people handled the racoon and some even kissed it.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
• Another nascent but promising concept is to put tracking collars on prey such as possums and racoons.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
• When any kind of disturbance in your home is detected, the drone will launch from its dock and fly to where the incident is—say, if there’s an intruder, or a racoon, Limp suggests.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
• Chad Daybell also allegedly texted Tammy Daybell that day about lighting a fire in the backyard and shooting a racoon.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
• That animal probably transmitted the virus to an intermediate host, like a mink, pangolin, civet or racoon dog, which then passed the virus to a human.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2021
• Certainly, wearing clothes is better than not wearing clothes is better when attending a racoon rave or a business meeting or both.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• Biomutant was supposed to be this exciting, colorful kung-fun combat game starring the most adorable little mutant racoon.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• With unwavering perseverance, the hatchling sets out to find that, or any, mother, even auditioning an alligator and a racoon along the way.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021
• And for Johnny the coati, a distant relative of the racoon, that means enticing him with a spoonful of honey inside of a plastic container, prompting him to stick his head inside while a vet administers the vaccine.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2021
• At the hospital, Meredith reveals she was also recently bitten by a bat, racoon and rat, on separate occasions.
  — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2021
• Known for their playful take on ceramics through the use of animations, Shohei Fujita and Chisato Yamano lend their ultra-cute designs of playful racoons, penguins and bears to the coziest winter wear.
  — The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Researchers have found that racoon and possum populations have declined in the Everglades precipitously since the snakes arrived.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024