Example sentences for: badger

How can you use “badger” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The wallaby and the wallaroo were, like the kangaroo, large marsupials which the Aborigines hunted; the koala was also a marsupial but arboreal in habit and sufficiently unique in appearance to have had the settlers liken it to a bear, a sloth, or a monkey in their naming of it; the wombat was a heavy, thickset marsupial sometimes known as a badger because of its burrowing habit.

  • The piner once lived in a badger box , a makeshift shelter named in allusion to the wombat's capacious hole in the ground (the wombat being known uniquely in Tasmania as a badger, to which it bears a passing resembalance).

  • Prudie suggests you badger the proper agency in your community to do something about all the livestock roaming the streets.

  • Now you'll be able to get property insurance from Travelers when you take out a mortgage from Citibank, or your Travelers agent will be able to badger you into getting a Citibank credit card after he's done badgering you about life insurance.

  • He can pee gasoline, walk through fire, induce visions, and even resurrect the dead, but when it comes to the simple task of locating Christine--which everyone else seems to be able to do with relative ease--he's so helpless he has to break into Jericho's apartment and badger him for her whereabouts.


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