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Recent Examples of trenchermanOne way or another, the ensemble is a trencherman’s feast.—Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 27 Sep. 2022
The sections with sticky, sloppy mud and hog ruts threatened to take the shoes right off our feet.
Patrick Connolly,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Nov. 2024
Mines require fleets of drill rigs, trucks, diggers, and other heavy machinery, energy hogs that account for as much as seven percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gases.
Overall, since 2022, the virus has been detected 372 times in wild birds in Michigan, including in ducks, sparrows, pigeons, starlings, swans, geese, eagles, loons, falcons, cranes, hawks, cormorants, owls and gulls.
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Dec. 2024
Then, over Labor Day weekend, one of the zoo’s cormorants died, as did a pheasant, a bald eagle, and three flamingos.
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