Example sentences for: beaver

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

  • Their brief encounters with Atlantic fishermen left little impact, but the advent of French and later British colonizers brought, in exchange for their beaver pelts, copper kettles and guns, blankets and brandy, Christianity, measles, and smallpox.

  • Some names ( Beaver, Blackfoot, Crow, Dog-Rib, Hare, Stone ) are English translations of Indian ones.

  • Andre Agassi, Brooke Shields, George Stephanopoulos, and that darned beaver.

  • Landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park, Mount Royal is a popular refuge from the city bustle, the place for picnics in the summer and tobogganing and skiing in the winter, with the little Beaver Lake (Lac des Castors) for sailing model boats (or skating).

  • The smaller stuff is inside, including the Indian currency of beads, wampum (black-and-white shells), and beaver pelts and blankets, as well as the more familiar coinage and paper currency from colonial to modern times.


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