squirrel cage

Example Sentences

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The trick, Anne said, is opening the squirrel cages to put in food without the squirrels getting out.

From Washington Post

A squirrel cage provides nesting areas resembling Georgian town houses, along with a pet running wheel attached to mechanical figures who come to life when it turns.

From New York Times

The ends are secured in flanges like the wires of a squirrel cage.

From Project Gutenberg

The world whirls like a wheel in a squirrel cage which we all tread:––only to find ourselves together after travelling many, many miles at top speed!...

From Project Gutenberg

It is the girl whirled around in a squirrel cage of pointless weekly and Sunday engagements who is oppressed and mastered by her lack of freedom.

From Project Gutenberg