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

Downtown's Pershing Square supports mourning doves, Vaux's swifts, gopher snakes and exotic streaktails, a type of fly that feeds on aphids.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

I checked my closet, just in case there was a giant invisible possum or gopher or something lurking there.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate