How to Use gerbil in a Sentence

gerbil

noun

• Turns out Betsy Ross is the biggest lie your kindergarten teacher ever told you (except that Bubbles the class gerbil was moving to a farm upstate).
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2021
• The backyard is full of the bones of our pets, mostly cats, but some gerbils, too, and even one guinea pig.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al.com, 26 June 2019
• The gerbil isn’t wild, at least when kept in a container in the United States.
  — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• The next year, the paperback showed a girl running in the grass with zero gerbils.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2018
• Being caged like the class gerbil for hours can be tedious.
  — Amy Tara Koch, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• The Morganucodon had a small gerbil-like body and a long face similar to those of shrews or civets.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
• Of course these cardio benefits are just for dogs -- not cats, horses, gerbils and the like.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Feb. 2020
• Whether tiny gerbil or huge capybara, rodents eat with the same special teeth.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2012
• For decades, Kevin had felt like a gerbil stuck on a wheel chasing achievement, but the Artemis crash had forced him to stop and look up and take a raw assessment.
  — Longreads, 7 Mar. 2018
• At the center of my experiment was one Hubert Lee, a gerbil named in part after my sister’s boyfriend at the time.
  — Debra Hale-Shelton, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
• Some have disputed this evidence, as the grave also contained the bones of a gerbil-like rodent that may have hauled in the plants itself.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
• Tofu, a gerbil who lives in Bay Village with owner Anna Evans.
  — cleveland, 8 May 2020
• Carrying rolling balances on credit cards is akin to being a caged gerbil on a wheel, going nowhere fast.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• Gove estimates the shelter started with about 40 animals and now, a few days later, it's left with six cats, four guinea pigs and two gerbils.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
• Turns out Betsy Ross is the biggest lie your kindergarten teacher ever told you (except that Bubbles the class gerbil was moving to a farm upstate).
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
• Only two instances of non-compliance have occurred in the past four years, one involving a gerbil and one involving a bat.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• They can be used to gain new skills and knowledge; create, connect, and communicate; find answers to almost any question; keep up with the news; and buy gerbil food at 2:00 in the morning.
  — Quora, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• The gerbil gallery is, of course, a bit too petite to accommodate in-person human visitors.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
• Ms. Rittinger was familiar with rodents as pets, having grown up with gerbils in Georgia.
  — John Surico, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• To try to answer that question, a team of German bioengineers surgically installed coiled strips of optical fibers in the ears of deaf gerbils.
  — Justin Chen, STAT, 11 July 2018
• Whatever the idea, controversial or not, pro- or anti-gerbil, no group can force a lawmaker to introduce a bill.
  — Rachel Osier Lindley, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• The disease is permanently present in colonies of social, burrowing rodents such as marmots or gerbils.
  — Kyle Harper, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
• London’s parents limited her to gerbils and hamsters as pets because of her allergies.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• Or an entirely different version of a baseball, with a prune center, dental-floss winding and gerbil-hide cover?
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• And a study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 2014 found that supplements of apigenin, a flavonoid found in celery, may have helped slow the progression of gastritis and gastric cancer—in gerbils, that is.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 25 Jan. 2019
• The monumentscomprised stone columns encircling mass graves with hundreds of men, women and children wearing adornments carved from ostrich eggshells, hippo ivory, gerbil teeth and more.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2018
• The university and federal investigators found a variety of issues with a lab that works with ferrets, mice, gerbils and marmosets, a type of monkey.
  — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2019
• Other animals shipped unaccompanied — gerbils, hamsters, monkeys, lab rats, even sharks — and their health after flight isn't tracked by the agency because airlines don't have to report it.
  — Corilyn Shropshire, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Luckily for the hungry rodents, all of the museum’s building materials—a mash-up of cardboard, paper and wood—were gerbil-friendly, reports Sarah Cascone for artnet News.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
• Researchers at Oregon State University offered 38 cats a choice between food, a toy, an interesting smell (catnip, a gerbil) and attention from a human.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 1 May 2017

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024