bushy-tailed
Example Sentences
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While some of us may be going into 2024 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Trump’s legal team seems to have spent the first week of the new year hunkered down with court filings.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2024
But just moments before he faded away, a bushy-tailed Swift Fox no bigger than a house cat swiped him up and gobbled him.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2023
It changed my life, and I’m so relieved that the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed kid was compelled enough to pick it up and judge it by its cover.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023
Sure, you can get carrots all year, but young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed carrots are a warm-weather specialty.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2022
Charades at least might go over well, as long as the tableaux did not involve any reference to small, bushy-tailed animals that stored nuts in their cheeks.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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