How to Use beaver in a Sentence

beaver

noun
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  • See that strand of barbwire the beaver has to step over?
    — Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But the busy beaver game sheds some light on the problem.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The girl’s father came to her rescue and beat the beaver to death.
    — Outdoor Life, 12 July 2023
  • The girl's father beat the beaver to death, Beucker said.
    — CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • Pop a beer, settle back and don’t forget to use the beaver head as a footrest.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The club moss, or the beaver, or the chipping sparrow, or the black crappie, or wild rice?
    — Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • The back of the flag has a beaver, the official state animal.
    — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In the opening minutes of Thursday night’s fourth episode, Hill found the dead beaver.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 17 June 2022
  • These look like beaver scat, but don’t judge a book by its cover etc etc etc!
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Should be another nice view of the waning beaver moon and Jupiter in the eastern sky this evening.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Dawn, the next morning, Jen and Aly spot a small herd of females bedded by a beaver pond 400 yards away.
    — Rachel Levin, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Thankfully the place with the bright sign and its smiling beaver face was nearby, with lots of room to roam.
    — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Her father intervened and used blunt force, killing the beaver.
    — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • There used to be hundreds of thousands of beavers—and hundreds of thousands of beaver ponds—all across Britain.
    — Daniel Merino, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • This year, the state has pumped more than $1 million into beaver restoration.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The site is home to steelhead and cutthroat trout, blue herons, ducks, owls, coyotes, deer, turtles and beavers.
    — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
  • This is also historically the time of year when beavers would be trapped as part of the fur trade.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The tribe is planning to reintroduce beavers next spring; their dams will help keep more water in the meadows near the groves.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The geese came home early, turtles are resting on logs already, the peepers out in the beaver pond the first week of March: a full month ahead.
    — Sara B. Franklin, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • In October, the riverfront got some more love when a beaver was spotted.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Fur trappers, the almanac stated, used this time also to hunt beavers for their pelts.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The Jurassic Castorocauda had a tail like a beaver’s and ate fish like an otter.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2021
  • On that call with Letterman, Jack retold a famous story about a beaver from the show.
    — Mike Wagner, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Native, prehistoric people would have been more likely to eat beaver, deer, and the like.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • These ponds may have three to five beaver overwintering.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Henning and Muche let out a startle, however, when a beaver struck the bottom of their canoe.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The lake and its extensive wetlands once teemed with fish, birds, beavers and frogs, and the people who lived on its shores built rafts out of tules and fished with basket traps.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Heather trades Whitney a free shopping spree in exchange for a gas-up before her meet-up with Jen and says her beaver hasn’t been knit in quite a while.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Saplings along the bank had been chewed by beavers, which have been moving north with the advancing tree line, their ponds further thawing the permafrost.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But furry mammals like beavers and otters that spend most of their lives wet manage to avoid getting their fur slimy.
    — Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024

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