How to Use rodent in a Sentence

rodent

noun

• The fluffy white rodent was big enough to fit in the palm of his hand.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2021
• The virus is spread in the rodents’ urine and droppings, the CDC explains.
  — Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
• The longer the rodents stayed by the water cooler, the more sharp waves that occurred in the brain.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2024
• At one point in the clip, the rodents start to slow down and break formation.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
• The capybara is the world's largest rodent and a close relative of the guinea pig.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
• Get ahead of rodents When the weather turns cold, mice and rats search for ways to stay warm.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Did this rodent revenant cross a stygian void to haunt us yet again?
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
• Invasive mammals, like rodents, are known to feed on the eggs and fledglings of the Azores bullfinch.
  — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• So can the rattlesnake, which detects the heat that the rodent is giving off.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• From capybara — the world’s largest rodent — to jaguars, caiman and countless bird species.
  — Palabra, oregonlive, 26 May 2022
• Loud Mouse is about the story of rodent sisters Dee and Cara Lee.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• The melomys, a small white-flecked rodent, lived on an island near the tip of the Great Barrier Reef.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
• The crawl space was littered with feces, dead rodents, and mold.
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• When Bushnell first came up with the concept of the restaurant, there were no plans to use a rodent as the mascot.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• Aside from the rodent, police found body armor and meth.
  — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
• In one, a woman drives while the shadowy rodent sits in the passenger seat.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• Now, the researchers want to look at humans to see if the rodent research holds up in ourselves.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• When the rodents still failed to appear, their nimble lawyer had a second defense at the ready.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• After towing it to a shop, a mechanic told her that a rodent had chewed through the wiring.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• Do not allow pets to hunt or roam in rodent areas, such as prairie-dog colonies.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Wild pigs kill and eat rodents, deer, birds, snakes, frogs, lizards and salamanders.
  — Marcus Lashley, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• The short-haried, brownish rodents are related to the guinea pig but are much larger and weigh 50 times as much.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
• The city has been trying to rid itself of the rodent, which came to New York on merchant ships, for at least two centuries.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the video, the outline of what appears to be a large rodent’s front paws can be seen through the glass paneling on the ceiling of the cabin.
  — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
• African spiny mice are small to medium sized rodents with spiny hairs on their upper body, large eyes and ears, and scaly tails.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
• Brinker said the health of lemmings, the rodent that is the birds' primary food source on their nesting grounds, is key to the owls' future.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2021
• There are many other products that promise to rid you of rodents, but be wary.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Residents say there were holes in the walls and rodents and roaches living in them.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• This is seen with another type of rodent virus, called hantaviruses, as cases are rarely seen in humans.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024