How to Use possum in a Sentence

possum

noun

• Kids at the top of the stairs on a playground slide call to mind brushtail possums caught in the beam of a flashlight.
  — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
• There was a possum struck and killed by a car, but the babies in her pouch survived.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2018
• The possum was removed from the roadway, the report said.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2020
• There has been a steady supply of dogs and cats, possums and raccoons to pick up.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2019
• The researchers had a hunch that the possum suffered a brutal fate.
  — Bill Kearney South Florida Sun-Sentinel (tns), al, 13 Feb. 2023
• The rescue team headed to the possum's location on the mooring close to the pier.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• But a bear and possum barbecue for the whole city to ransack?
  — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Then the tourist screams and dives on the ground, presumably playing possum.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
• As the camera pans up and down on the dead possum in the middle of the machine, Rogen yells in disgust.
  — Kate Stanhope, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2018
• There are no bears in New Zealand; in fact, the largest predator of any kind in New Zealand is the possum.
  — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
• The rest were stored in a shed, where weather—and possums—destroyed all but a few hundred.
  — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• See if the blue death-feigning beetle will do its possum trick in your open palm.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• Celtics coach Brad Stevens, clearly playing possum, said the Nets are the clear favorite to win it all.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The one after that showed a possum plodding into and through some hedges.
  — Ryan Bradley, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Her old fence is falling, and the other day a possum entered her yard.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• The rare animal looks more like a cute cross between a squirrel and a possum than like a rat.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
• The rare animal looks more like a cute cross between a squirrel and a possum than a large rat.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Sep. 2017
• And now, the possum has become something of a hero for being anti-work.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
• Adams rushed up with his knife, but Foster panicked and forgot to play possum, as Adams had told him to do.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2018
• Neither were the rats spotted earlier gnawing on the carcass, or a possum seen in the area.
  — Rob O'Dell, azcentral, 5 July 2018
• Every few days, Wood, his wife and their two toddlers watch video of skunks, possum, a hawk and not one but two foxes that visit the home.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• The two men spotted this huntsman spider (which is about the size of a large adult's hand) hanging from the top of the door with a dead pygmy possum hanging from its fangs.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 30 June 2019
• The hutch got its name for two reasons, First, because of surprise possum squatters.
  — Cathy Jakicic, Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
• But a few blurry images of a possum did show up (from a Ring floodlight camera mounted up high — hence the blur).
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024
• The border capos go by handles such Tlachuache, or possum.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• One wrestler's grand entrance involves a fierce-looking dead possum that flies into the arena strapped to a drone.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• People in cities can’t seem to tell the difference between a possum and a house cat, for example.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• Coppery like a penny, thick like bad molasses, even a little gamey like a possum.
  — Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• And guerrilla groups in Iraq have played possum for months, only to rise again; hell, that’s part of the nature of an insurgent threat.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2007
• The three common exotic rat species, along with ferrets and possums, are targets of the effort, which could benefit native frogs, bats, and birds.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024