How to Use hamster in a Sentence

hamster

noun

• Whether your best bud is a dog, a cat or a hamster, Chewy’s got something for you.
  — Julianne Ross, CNN Underscored, 15 Oct. 2020
• The vessel was afloat by wiring and buoys and can best be described as a hamster wheel.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Too sweaty; too much like a warehouse of hamster wheels.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
• The inn has no pet-type restrictions, so pack up the bird, guinea pig, and hamster, too.
  — Laurie Wilson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Plus three dogs, two cats, and a male hamster named Susan.
  — Robert Ruffino, House Beautiful, 28 June 2019
• Making a habit out of this lay-flat hamster wheel was the only thing on my mind.
  — Erika Veurink, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2024
• After Kendall’s good friend Death leaves, Kendall tells a secret to the hamster.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 June 2023
• So why can the bird get its groove on while other pets like cats, dogs and hamsters just stare blankly?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• Like a hamster on a wheel, there’s always something to be done.
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 21 July 2020
• This was a very cute animated film, told from the point of view of a hamster.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Some classrooms have a class pet to look after—maybe a hamster or a small fish.
  — Jon Winkler, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• There were 60 mph winds, driving rain, and hamster-sized snowflakes.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2019
• Dwarf hamsters grow no more than 4 inches and weigh less than 2 ounces.
  — Bloomberg News, OregonLive.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Gentle pressure on your eyes can help slow down the hamster wheel of your mind.
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• Regardless of the test result, the hamster will be put down.
  — Time, 18 Jan. 2022
• Small mammals such as guinea pigs, hamsters, rats and mice love their hidey-holes.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee.com, 30 June 2017
• Well, imagine getting on a plane, and a hamster is the pilot.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
• And there is big reason to believe it’s time to get off the current regime’s hamster wheel.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• But this left us on a hamster wheel of striving, rather than thriving.
  — Susan Hobson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• More death: more dogs, more cats, a hamster, a guinea pig, a rabbit, some chickens.
  — Sarah Paley, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
• At various times, each has been atop the hamster wheel.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• One brother even made headlines for biting off the head of a hamster on video.
  — Tracy Connor, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2017
• Others riffed on the remix — someone even made a hamster dance to it — giving it new life.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
• Players will now also have the option to play as a hamster.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 Dec. 2018
• The hamster is definitely rolling in that wheel in his head.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
• The most obvious symptom of the mumps is swelling of the salivary glands, which gives the patient the look of a hamster storing feed in its cheeks.
  — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Outside, by the sparkling pool, the lawn was studded with statues of Greek gods and human-size hamster balls.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2020
• No one truly trips up inside their hamster ball, which is a shame.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• With a hamster carcass as a welcome snack, the kit retreated into the earthen hole and made itself at home.
  — Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
• Hahn is never funnier than when Agatha is trying to summon some of her own swagger while forced to wear Agnes’s drab clothes—a cobra stuck in the mundane form of a hamster.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024