How to Use gopher in a Sentence

gopher

noun
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  • The gophers and the weeds have moved in, and scores of grave markers are falling apart.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • And buddy, the gopher over there already dug all the holes.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2020
  • At Topo, in downtown Gilbert, the roof is flanked by a 7-foot-tall statue of a gopher.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
  • In the stands, Bill Murray was looking for gophers to whack.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The holes also are too small for gophers, moles and ground squirrels.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • There are a few culprits that could be doing this – gophers, voles or mice.
    — oregonlive, 24 June 2023
  • Most people have never heard of, let alone seen, a dusky gopher frog.
    — Tate Watkins, National Review, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Nor does the nearby open field riddled with gopher holes.
    — oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Hill could yet emerge if Fleener steps in a gopher hole or something.
    — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The Gophers were actually in the playoff race all the way to the last week of the regular season.
    — The Lonnquist Notes, By Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram, 28 Aug. 2017
  • In this case, though, the heron was clearly taking the initiative, stalking the gopher like a pro.
    — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2014
  • In the stands, Bill Murray was looking for gophers beneath his seat.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • As a result, the fields don’t look as good, and the holes left by ground squirrels and gophers were a hazard to children playing sports.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Under the law, using traps to catch gophers, house mice, rats, moles and voles would still be permitted.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • This is a place that thumps with the energy of a thousand gophers turning over knowledge.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Yes, those prairie dogs — the cute, bewhiskered, gopher-like little buggers that pop out of their mounds and stand on their hind legs, twitching.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • The Cardinals practiced twice a week on the school’s hard, dry, gopher-friendly soccer field.
    — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
  • Popping up like gophers, the piece encourages you to look at strangers with a whole new perspective.
    — Kat Herriman, CNT, 10 June 2017
  • Finally, the 67-year-old found his way into the clubhouse and out of the heat, like the gopher from Caddyshack sneaking back into his hole.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 23 May 2018
  • But cover crops bring their own problems, like gophers.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 10 June 2019
  • Had the court split evenly, the dusky gopher frog’s lower-court victory would have been upheld.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Shooting an elk with one, however, is about like shooting a gopher with a .30/06.
    — Joseph Von Benedikt, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
  • These birds work alone, flying out solo in search of prey including snakes, fish, frogs, gophers or even small birds.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2017
  • Yasushi Suzuki stars as Tatsuo, a frenetic jazz club gopher with dreams of being a singer in the U.S.
    — Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • No more rat droppings in the crawl space or in or on the mechanical equipment that is there, and the mole and gopher holes on our hillside have decreased again.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Gophers' fans hope that imagination carries over to the field.
    — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The Minnesota high-school boys’ hockey tournament is a hot ticket in the gopher state.
    — Will Connors, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2017
  • The animal, which looks a bit like a large gopher or a giant hamster, lives in a wildlife park in southeastern Australia.
    — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2014
  • Line the bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • He is said to have sent a dead gopher to a publisher and attacked an ABC executive, breaking his pelvis.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2018

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