Example sentences for: civet

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

  • While companies once mined scents from natural sources such as "the anuses of a mongoose-like African animal called a civet," they now use computers and chemical synthesis to create new scents: After sampling odors and digitizing their chemical makeup, scent-creators change various elements to derive a new smell.

  • Spotted deer, sloth bear, giant flying squirrels, and civet cats are among the other mammals the visitor may see.

  • Bandar `rhesus monkey' and bondar `palm civet,' for example, both derive from bada or badar `monkey,' while baniya `merchant' is the Hindi antecedent of both banyan `tree' and bunnia `member of a merchant caste.


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