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

Its two baseball fields were so pockmarked by gopher holes that even walking over them was difficult.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

An example is the gopher tortoise, which digs burrows that are used by more than 350 other species for breeding, feeding, protection from predators and avoiding extreme temperatures.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

Doubletree Mutt watched them over his shoulder; then he dug furiously, growled, sounded little sharp yelps to indicate that the gopher was practically caught.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck