How to Use badger in a Sentence

badger

1 of 2 noun
  • The honey badger is one of them.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Or what if it is dug up by a badger and carried away by a magpie?
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • With the arrival of spring comes the emergence of new badgers in the state.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The badger prefers habitats with short grass, such as fields and pastures.
    — Michael Guise, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Grit the honey badger is on a mission to taste honey for the first time.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The badger saunters to the edge of the tunnel, pausing at the edge.
    — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 4 Feb. 2020
  • There are a lot of real dangers out there – and real badgers.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • For years, there has been a rumor that Clive Owen is afraid of badgers.
    — Pete Forester, Esquire, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Bernt gets a vaccine after a badger bites him and that’s the film [in the nutshell].
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Dachshunds are clever hunters, bred hundreds of years ago in Germany to sniff out badgers.
    — Mindy Schauer, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026
  • There is no plastic at all; the bristles on the lathering brush are made of badger hair.
    — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2019
  • These can be horsehair or boar hair, but top-quality brushes use badger hair.
    — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Sunshine Sean guards his feelings the way mama badgers guard their young.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The badger can dig into ground squirrels' dens and then once the prey surfaces, the coyote can chase it down.
    — Alicia Lee, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Animal bristles from boars, hogs and badgers — used by mustache and beard groomers — were spared the chop.
    — Daniela Wei, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
  • As in a previous era, beavers evolved, along with anteaters, flying squirrels, badgers, and more.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Wolverines are technically a type of weasel but look more like a cross between a large badger and a small bear.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • Or the coyote can drive their prey underground for the badger, who is a digging expert, to dig and kill.
    — Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Some of these steps, like a bird spotting and approaching the badger, were plausible.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • Badgers, which range throughout Europe, live in groups of about a dozen animals.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2017
  • Worse, humans also hunt the animals — deer, badgers and hares — that wild Amur feed on.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • The incredible video is far from the first time a badger has faced off with a predator larger than itself.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
  • Her worries grow when a group of badgers takes over the Rabbit School and steals the Egg.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Theodore Roosevelt was gifted a badger by a girl in Kansas during a train stop.
    — Leanne Italie, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Or Mark Zuckerberg could go all honey badger about it and dare governments to come get him.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 26 June 2019
  • Webster traced the legend back to Europe, where hedgehogs and badgers often stir this time of year.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Badgers fans have voiced frustration with the direction of the program in recent weeks.
    — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • So did our ancestors — small mammals the size of squirrels or badgers — and the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The house is represented by a badger, which are both cute and able to seriously ruin your day.
    — Allison Carter, Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2017

badger

2 of 2 verb
  • She finally badgered me into going.
  • Pruitt didn’t sit back and wait or badger the judge for a ruling.
    — Eric Lipton and Coral Davenport, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2017
  • The police badgered him, Becky says, which led him to take his life.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Nobody wants to be badgered for 30 days.
    — Dave Knox, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • By the time the three of them were outside the drawbridge, the sun was badgered by clouds.
    — Kate Osana Simonian, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • Reeves said that Dressler badgered her for more than a year to find room for a makerspace.
    — Deborah Fallows, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2016
  • This did not go over well, as the palace had chastised the media for badgering him.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
  • Her job is to safely drive the bus and stay on schedule, not badger people about wearing masks.
    — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Presumably those praying for you haven’t just tried to badger you out of your beliefs?
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The little evil voice that badgered the Big Easy on the course followed him home.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 13 June 2016
  • Holley told friends the woman was badgering her with angry phone calls.
    — CBS News, 26 June 2018
  • After months of badgering them, my manager cried on the phone.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 16 June 2023
  • Weist’s job seems to consist of badgering his charges to post more videos and herding them from one meet-and-greet to the next.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • First, badgering messages on owners’ smartphones and even on the screens inside the car.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Each time my name gets printed in The Post, Reporters badger me from coast to coast.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The turning point came when his buddy Cesar tried to badger him into joining the swim team.
    — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Shanahan said Warner hasn’t badgered him about speeding up his comeback.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Many more took months of badgering to comply, and a few just ignored the requests entirely.
    — AJC.com, 27 Dec. 2016
  • These types of self-badgering questions come to my mind consistently.
    — Pamela Rafalow Grossman, SELF, 2 July 2018
  • Among the 10 species reported taken were coyote, gray fox, beaver, badger and mink.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • My dad continued to badger me to turn it back to the White Sox game, which was in the middle innings.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 21 June 2026
  • At one point in the trial, the judge admonished the attorney for badgering a witness.
    — J. C. Duffy, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Britain is a nation of animal lovers, a place where citizens are willing to take to the streets over fox hunting and badger culling.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This is hard to do if, say, you are sent one-view-only videos or photos or, as in Sam's case, being badgered over likes and follows.
    — Jenn Selby, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Besides urging women not to badger their husbands, the posters also advised those working from home to dress up and wear makeup.
    — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But instead of a welcome, residents gathered around, badgering them with questions and glares.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 18 May 2016
  • Dating app users who report an attack, like Dong, often have to badger companies to take action.
    — Brian Edwards, ProPublica, 17 May 2021
  • When his team needs a big steal late in a game, Jaylen Clark can use his active hands and quick feet to badger his counterpart into a turnover.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Trump has badgered the Federal Reserve to cut its policy rate, and market rates are low too.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Impatient investors have been badgering the company for several years to cash in some of its more valuable assets.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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