How to Use meerkat in a Sentence

meerkat

noun
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  • Click like to share and then go watch a YouTube about adorable meerkats.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to meerkat.
    — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Nine of them were rescued, but one, a meerkat, perished in the fire.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
  • Since then, the zoo has had aardvarks, sloths, meerkats, manatees and more on the show.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • And late last month, an aardvark and four meerkats were killed in a fire at London Zoo.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Then her meerkat starts pooping, while the two hot meerkats look on, appalled.
    — Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Silver told the court Hooker was in the process of returning the meerkat when the police called.
    — Trevor Marshallsea, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Wingate knows the meerkats well and can reach out and delicately touch their backs.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
  • Then I got sucked into watching a YouTube video about meerkats.
    — Colin Nissan, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2017
  • According to a map of the zoo, the café is adjacent to the meerkat enclosure.
    — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The first episode goes underground with meerkats, across plains with cheetahs and above the trees with a chimpanzee in Cameroon.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The dye was used on the meerkats June 1, and one of them was found dead about 30 minutes later, officials said.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Officials said Misha died in the fire and the four missing meerkats were presumed to have perished as well.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Puff adders can suppress their own odor to avoid detection by keen-nosed dogs and meerkats.
    — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 4 May 2017
  • How do groups of meerkats decide which direction to move?
    — Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The zoo has suspended use of the dye until officials find out what happened to the meerkats.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 June 2023
  • The meerkat family gets ready for bed with a few evening yoga stretches.
    — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Adult female meerkats who don't become queen wind up as her ladies-in-waiting.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • But the bloodiest, most homicidal of more than 1,000 species surveyed is the meerkat.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2016
  • But recently he was asked to take over the role of Timon, the meerkat, for four months on a national tour.
    — Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2022
  • After witnessing the death of his father, a young lion runs away and comes of age in the company of a warthog and meerkat.
    — courant.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Last year, The El Paso Zoo offered to name a cockroach after a person's ex and feed it to a meerkat live on camera.
    — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The meerkats were able to return this weekend back to their regular exhibit, and all are healthy.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Accountants at nearby cafes raise their heads like meerkats to see what’s the commotion.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Once her rivals reach their reproductive age, the alpha meerkat either kills them, or they are run out of the group.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 June 2022
  • That idea never sat very well with researchers studying species such as meerkats, Lukas contends.
    — Tim Vernimmen, Scientific American, 20 June 2018
  • Problems for the zoo began on June 1, when the meerkat keepers noticed the meerkats were not acting normally.
    — Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
  • In 2019, the zoo honored Hogle by naming its new meerkat exhibit after him.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The Times has more intriguing and provocative takes on meerkats, honeybees, African wild dogs, baboons and rock ants.
    — Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • However, three of the meerkats died within 36 hours despite the life-saving efforts.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023

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