beaver

Example Sentences

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And, as lawyers and bureaucrats beaver away on finding new legal strategies for the president’s tariff policies, we could see at least a partial return to the high-stakes trade diplomacy of the past 13 months.

From The Wall Street Journal

I could also name some rarer animals: chinchilla, mink, crocodile, ostrich, emu, beaver, leopard.

From Literature

“When a beaver builds a single dam, it can change an entire ecosystem. How can we humans think that all the things we’re doing aren’t changing the earth?”

From Literature

Ospreys diving for fish, mountain hares in the snow, puffins with bills full of sand eels, red squirrels, beavers and even a lynx.

From BBC

As November’s beaver supermoon rose above the marina, pulling the tide up with it, he felt a glimmer of optimism — a foreign feeling, like reconnecting with an old friend.

From Los Angeles Times