gopher

Example Sentences

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When the New England Patriots signed Mike Vrabel as a young linebacker in 2001, they sent a gopher from the team’s personnel department to scoop him up at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

During the summers, I interned with the animation department as a gopher.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

The trust removed poison from the course’s maintenance shed, along with poison and gopher traps throughout the site, Garrison said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2024

“That’s really harsh, Pelicarnassus,” said the gopher, the one who had accused Zeke of cheating on a test they hadn’t even taken yet.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness