How to Use bandicoot in a Sentence

bandicoot

noun
  • These bandicoots stand out from other subspecies with their long noses, curved toes, and pointy ears.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The foxes went down; the bandicoots and meat allergies popped up.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The long-nosed bandicoot in particular appears to be faring well.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Long-nosed bandicoots make their homes in forests, shrublands, grasslands, and terrestrial environments.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • As the foxes died, the ticks that had fed on them found another primary host—the shrewlike native bandicoot, which Australians had worked hard to reëstablish.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The long-nosed bandicoot, whose name is Perameles nasuta, is native to Australia and New Guinea.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Traditionally, mammalian biofluorescence, such as glowing fur in bare-nosed wombats and bandicoots, has been studied as a property of the animal itself.
    — Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2026

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