How to Use mongoose in a Sentence

mongoose

noun
Definition of mongoosenext
  • Watch the full clip of the mongoose and the hornbill below.
    — Cady Lang, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
  • In Fodor’s, a mongoose voiced by Neil Gaiman calls him on the telephone.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • For Penn, who plays Mikku, one of the mongooses, being part of the show is a thrill.
    — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • In 2011, a predator-proof fence was completed to protect the seabird colonies from the likes of cats and mongoose.
    — Ku‘u Kauanoe, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Otto and Xavier embark, with their pet mongoose, on a sleeper train called the Lucky Day.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • When mongoose mothers are expecting, many will give birth on the same night.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 June 2021
  • Meerkats are members of the mongoose family, the zoo said, and usually live in the deserts and dry open plains of Southern Africa.
    — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2017
  • There’s all kinds of stuff that has tried to be a bit catlike in different ways—mongooses, things like that.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The crested toad’s long list of predators includes cats, crabs, dogs, heron, lizards, mongooses, and rats.
    — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2020
  • And yes, belief in the mongoose (Gef) appears to work as an analogy for belief in God (God).
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • And then there’s the mongoose, with a height typically under two feet.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The show focuses on the lives of three African matriarchs: an elephant, a hyena and a striped mongoose.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The pair were on a trip through the Thai jungle when Fox handed some money to someone who led them to a fight between a cobra and a mongoose.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The cat-like animals, distant relatives of the mongoose, can only be found in the forests of Madagascar in the wild.
    — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This mongoose birth party is a good thing, new research suggests.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 June 2021
  • When the islands became fused to the mainland the mongoose spread southwards and developed into its present jaguar-like form.
    — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
  • Liberia is home to more than 40 percent of West Africa’s forests and houses some of the world’s rarest animal species, including the Liberian mongoose and pygmy hippos.
    — Wufei Yu, Outside Online, 24 June 2020
  • So the Madagascar Forest area will have fossas, a predator that’s related to the mongoose.
    — John Wilkens, latimes.com, 25 June 2017
  • Today, introduced species such as mongoose on the Hawaiian islands or the brown tree snake in Guam threaten native wildlife.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2022
  • So the Madagascar Forest area will have fossas, a weird-looking predator (dog-like face, cat-like claws and teeth) that’s related to the mongoose.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2017
  • In addition to the many mammals at the park, which include warthogs, baboons, mongooses and others, there are an abundance of reptiles and more than 450 species of birds.
    — Fox News, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Meerkats are omnivores from the mongoose family and are found in desert and other arid environments of South Africa.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
  • In the wilds of Botswana, a pathogen called Mycobacterium mungi has a very clever strategy for infecting the banded mongoose.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
  • There’s also a pack of bad guys, including a mongoose and assorted seagulls.
    — Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • By comparison, the far-more-ancient Diegoaelurus was much smaller, about the size of a bobcat, and similar in style to the fossa of Madagascar, a cousin to the mongoose, Poust said.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Insects lay eggs in the carcasses, creating food for mongooses and ibis.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
  • Turns out that mongooses is the proper plural because mongoose is Hindi and is thus made plural in the regular way.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Turns out that mongooses is the proper plural because mongoose is Hindi and is thus made plural in the regular way.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The next season yielded intriguing caches of animal mummies—not just cats but a cobra, a lion cub, a mongoose and even a scarab beetle.
    — Roger Anis, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • There is also a minor epidemic of troll players wielding two rattan Kali sticks that seem to grant them the speed of a mongoose that’s been mainlining methamphetamines.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021

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