How to Use gray squirrel in a Sentence

gray squirrel

noun
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  • Yet the eastern gray squirrel is the species that's most prevalent.
    — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The females most often feed on the blood of the eastern chipmunk, the gray squirrel and fox squirrel.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The gray squirrels are Douglas and Phyllis—two lovely, soft, blue-gray names.
    — Liana Finck, The New York Review of Books, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Schorger wrote in the 1940s a comprehensive history of the black form of the gray squirrel.
    — Benjamin Peters, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
  • The gray squirrel, which has large white patches of fur, has been making itself at home in the area near the Asian Glade and Japanese Gardens.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The gestation period of a gray squirrel is about 40 days.
    — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The species, too, include the abundant (gray squirrel and cottontail rabbit) to the seldom seen (fisher and gray fox).
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • The ticks’ favorite mammalian host, the western gray squirrel, does not frequent seaside grass-scapes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2021
  • Kentucky Kentucky's state mammal is the gray squirrel, declared in 1968 as the state wild animal game species.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Another gray squirrel perched on an oak limb, its tail flicking with every bark.
    — Johnny Carrol Sain, Outdoor Life, 6 Oct. 2020
  • This can take some ingenuity as the average gray squirrel can jump at least 4 feet straight up in the air, 8 to 10 feet sideways, and more than that when jumping down from above.
    — Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 20 June 2017
  • The animals were once common throughout the United Kingdom, but the invasive gray squirrel has pushed them to the brink of extinction in all but a few strongholds.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • There are three other giants in the squirrel family, Sciuridae—each of which weighs in at two to three times the size of the gray squirrels native to the eastern United States.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2019
  • While gray squirrels spend much of their lives in trees — and depend on canopy connectivity — fox squirrels will forage far and wide.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • For the past three years, a gray squirrel has set out to ruin my life, chewing leaves off my beloved exotic hibiscus and geraniums.
    — Julie Zickefoose, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Responding to Bob Sloan’s plea for help with his apple-eating Western gray squirrels, readers shared their tips for how to keep squirrels out of fruit trees.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The explosion of invasive North American gray squirrels along with an outbreak of parapoxvirus has pushed the red squirrel to the brink of extinction in Great Britain.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
  • But the humble eastern gray squirrel is finally getting some time in the spotlight, thanks to the first-ever Central Park Squirrel Census.
    — Kaitlyn Schwalje, National Geographic, 20 June 2019
  • But those efforts ground to a halt during the pandemic, and the gray squirrel population has rebounded.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Some squirrels are known to hide nuts and eat them later on during hibernation, but gray squirrels do not hibernate.
    — Fox News, 26 Jan. 2020
  • The latter also offers a half-day expedition with staff falconers during which the birds hunt eastern gray squirrels in local forests.
    — Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Western gray squirrels are still occasionally found in the Verdugo Mountains north of Burbank.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • The western gray squirrel is threatened in Washington state, and biologists need to know more about them to understand what's happening.
    — Eva Lewandowski, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Tech revealed antibodies across 24 animals spanning six species, including the opossum, the Eastern gray squirrel, and two types of mice.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Roadkill of western gray squirrels, rabbits, ring-necked snakes and western toads has plummeted to zero, according to Hans, a wildlife expert with the nonprofit Friends of Griffith Park.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Many natural options include Saikoho goat, gray squirrel, silver fox, and even Kolinsky sable.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Where pine martens are present, the evidence suggests that gray squirrel populations are suppressed and red squirrel numbers rebound.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Scurius, a nut-hoarding gray squirrel played with surprising gravitas by Terence Archie, lives comfortably and regally with his family in the hollow of a tree.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • The company has since achieved a cultlike following for its innovative color and makeup technology, and its Artistique line of brushes — all made in Kumano, half of them with gray squirrel hair — are top of the line.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • The eastern gray squirrel is another common Michigan squirrel.
    — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2019

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