Example sentences for: beaver

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

  • The lake path makes a delightful two-hour ramble through woodland, giving you a good chance of spotting some of the park’s small wildlife, notably some very chubby brown porcupine and an occasional beaver.

  • 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.

  • The House Budget Committee chairman is an eager beaver and a wonderful speaker, but he's too narcissistic, too populist, and too willing to compromise with Democrats.

  • 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?

  • Agents are pursuing a third beaver that is believed to be still at large.


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