How to Use chinchilla in a Sentence

chinchilla

noun

• The collar of the coat is chinchilla.
• The traditional dress of the Kazakh eagle hunters can be glimpsed in the hooded down jacket made from chinchilla and cashmere blend with fox-fur trim, while the red and saffron hues of monks’ robes appear in scarves and sweaters.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2024
• The chinchillas were in the care of HAWS and remained so.
  — Nicole Aimone, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
• Three, the chinchilla children are home-schooled, and the father, Chum Chum, is their instructor.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• When that falls through, the bills stop getting paid, and Allison is forced to become the first farmhand in the South Downs to own a chinchilla coat.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
• Inside, three fish, two lizards, two rabbits, four cats, a chinchilla and a large dog shared a small living room.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• The apartment is home to two parrots, a duck, a chicken, a quail, a rabbit, guinea pigs, two iguanas and a chinchilla.
  — NBC News, 18 Jan. 2020
• There are the African sulcata tortoise and the bearded dragon, the chinchillas and the rabbits and the hedgehog; the horse and the heifers, the chickens and ducks, and the mama goats about to kid.
  — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2020
• Mink coats, fox earmuffs, chinchilla scarves are all sixty-five per cent off!
  — Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2017
• Bobby the leopard gecko can store water and food in his tail, while Chilly the chinchilla has up to 80 hairs in each hair follicle.
  — Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
• The adorable group of finalists included a chinchilla named Ande, a sheep named Timmy, and a duck named Ping.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
• During a blip in time in the late Jurassic, a dinosaur that weighed no more than a chinchilla flung itself from tree to tree, spread its wings and tried to soar.
  — Sabrina Imbler New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
• When the temperature drops, there's a chinchilla blanket ready to warm things up.
  — Kristina Stewart Ward, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2010
• Set in 1970s Las Vegas, there is a scene where ‘Ace’ gives ‘Ginger’ a suitcase full of jewels, and she is draped in a chinchilla coat on a bed.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• Finally, the video featured a chinchilla named Poppy rolling in a ball toward the Chiefs logo.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2023
• This year’s theme is rescue animals, and in the finals, Stewie is up against a cat, duck, chinchilla and other critters.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• The pet cemetery in her yard includes such longtime library favorites as Basil the chinchilla and Nilla the ferret.
  — al, 25 Sep. 2020
• The future of cryptocurrencies might be found in the history of chinchillas.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023
• One of them, the tall one, wore a massive oversize grenadier-style coat—a chinchilla of dark blue, double-breasted with a number of missing buttons.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• Give in to the melatonin in your bodies and indulge winter grogginess in this faux fur chinchilla blanket.
  — Vera Castaneda, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• It was inspired by a cashmere robe with real chinchilla trim that cost thousands and thousands of dollars.
  — Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2020
• His showroom features chinchilla, sable, fox, and Blackglama mink.
  — Janie Har, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• Campers also have the chance to pet animals like a chinchilla, small alligator or bald python.
  — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• A little gray chinchilla hops down from its tower of power and approaches.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
• Goats, chickens, tortoises and chinchillas are housed there.
  — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 11 July 2019
• Along with the Burmese Python, Andersen brought an armadillo, a chinchilla, a leopard tortoise and an Australian blue-tongued skink.
  — Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• In this way, KrioRus has cryopreserved 61 people and 31 pets, including a cat, a goldfinch, and a chinchilla.
  — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 22 June 2018
• The place would be used to house rabbits, guinea pigs and an occasional chinchilla — all animals that are in need of permanent homes.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2019
• And what a car for us two chinchillas looking to detox: a 1960 Cadillac El Dorado in ecru with a Coke-bottle red interior.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• Nothing the staff normally used — Dawn dish soap, chinchilla dust, chemical solvents — could get it off.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 June 2020

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024