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Example sentences for: beaver

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I remembered Thomas Pyles pointing out in class once that animal metaphors for this body part name cute, furry animals: pussy, beaver, squirrel, monkey, cony, and (in France) lapin . Nothing about a turtle is cuddlesome; it does not fit the pattern.
Agents are pursuing a third beaver that is believed to be still at large.
The daft charm of Edgar Rice Burroughs' protagonist--a little boy raised by gorillas whose animal and human languages are constantly vying for supremacy--doesn't have the same piquancy when the gorillas talk like characters from Leave It to Beaver . If we're all the same under the skin (or fur), then what's the point of the story?
Which of these adjectives appear in a New York Times piece describing George W. Bush at his first New Hampshire campaign appearance, and which are from the World Book Encyclopedia (1960) article on the beaver?
Ken Fisher, a professor of biomedical sciences at the veterinary college, believes that the development of a uterus is a normal part of a male beaver's genetics and embryology: But "I wouldn't bet the farm on that," he says.