How to Use armadillo in a Sentence

armadillo

noun
  • The armadillos were easy, but the ants required a bit of work.
    — John Gray Singer, New York Times, 10 June 2018
  • The preserve is home to wild cats, anteaters, armadillos, and sloths.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026
  • Back at camp, keep an eye out in the evenings for foraging armadillos.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
  • When fully grown, these screaming armadillos will weigh less than two pounds.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The attraction of that house was this armadillo that would appear from time to time on the deck.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Our little native ant eater, the armadillo can be enough of a problem.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2017
  • But there was no one for the first 83 miles except turtles and armadillos.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
  • This year, your choices are between a crab, an armadillo, and a penguin.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Coyotes, hogs, and bobcats will eat them, but for the most part armadillos have it pretty easy.
    — Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
  • More likely culprits are armadillos, skunks, or birds.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • That practice is profitable, but requires the skin of an armadillo.
    — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The mix of sculpture includes planes, hippos, art cows and armadillos.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • For land mammals, the giant armadillo is at the top with up to 100 teeth.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
  • And armadillos tear up gardens and lawns looking for bugs, and there are no repellents that work.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
  • That same year Chavkin acquired a tattoo of an armadillo with its front claws removed.
    — Barbara Isenberg, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
  • Can humans, dogs get leprosy from armadillos?
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Hansen’s disease is no reason to treat humans (or armadillos) with fear or disgust.
    — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In Texas, both an alligator and an armadillo have been used.
    — The Oklahoman, Oklahoman, 31 Jan. 2026
  • While they're sometimes known as scaly anteaters, pangolins are not related in any way to anteaters or armadillos.
    — ABC News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • And how do these women not know the difference between a possum and an armadillo?
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a couple people that come by several times a day to say hi to the baboon and check in on the armadillo.
    — oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Of course, there's lots of pottery, in the form of everything from birds and bugs to Texas armadillos.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2026
  • When the first armadillo was sighted here in 2019, Bullard got a call.
    — Oliver Milman, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, there’s lots of pottery, in the form of everything from birds and bugs to Texas armadillos and more.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The store is out of Santa suits, so Ross rents an armadillo outfit instead.
    — Bob Sassone, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • What the armadillo told us By then, the gathering had settled into its civic rhythm.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 3 Feb. 2026
  • And the bat and club were iconic features seen in both ankylosaurus and the glyptodons, which were ancient boulder-sized armadillos.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Ross dresses up as an armadillo to teach his son Ben (Cole Sprouse) about Hanukkah.
    — Eric Todisco, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022
  • For those that might eat armadillo, the chances of contracting the disease after ingesting the meat is low.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The pangolin is a peculiar-looking creature that looks like the cross between an anteater and an armadillo.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 10 June 2025

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