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

Animals, like pocket gophers, deer mice, shrews, voles, and other small mammals, were still in their winter burrows.

From Literature

“It’s not fair to have France on a test if Zeke can just ask his knee,” said a gopher who Zeke didn’t even know.

From Literature

“Possibly two of the three, Nell,” Aunt Kitty called from the back room, her arms in the wardrobe again and digging so quickly that she seemed like some sort of high-strung gopher.

From Literature

Five years ago, according to the report, the city was in the middle of the pack at 49th, only to sink steadily into a gopher hole.

From Los Angeles Times