How to Use chinchilla in a Sentence

chinchilla

noun
  • The collar of the coat is chinchilla.
  • Mink coats, fox earmuffs, chinchilla scarves are all sixty-five per cent off!
    — Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Inside, three fish, two lizards, two rabbits, four cats, a chinchilla and a large dog shared a small living room.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • When the temperature drops, there's a chinchilla blanket ready to warm things up.
    — Kristina Stewart Ward, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2010
  • A little gray chinchilla hops down from its tower of power and approaches.
    — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • His showroom features chinchilla, sable, fox, and Blackglama mink.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
  • His showroom features chinchilla, sable, fox, and Blackglama mink.
    — Janie Har, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
  • For many years, Ken raised chinchillas at their rural Litchfield homestead.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • It was inspired by a cashmere robe with real chinchilla trim that cost thousands and thousands of dollars.
    — Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The apartment is home to two parrots, a duck, a chicken, a quail, a rabbit, guinea pigs, two iguanas and a chinchilla.
    — NBC News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Campers also have the chance to pet animals like a chinchilla, small alligator or bald python.
    — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • As for that friendly neighborhood chinchilla?
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • There were also pictures of their young son holding his chinchilla, petting a horse and hanging out on a houseboat with his friend.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Give in to the melatonin in your bodies and indulge winter grogginess in this faux fur chinchilla blanket.
    — Vera Castaneda, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The future of cryptocurrencies might be found in the history of chinchillas.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Three, the chinchilla children are home-schooled, and the father, Chum Chum, is their instructor.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • For small animals such as gerbils or chinchillas, co-sleeping isn’t safe due to their size, potty habits, and tendency to chew.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This year’s theme is rescue animals, and in the finals, Stewie is up against a cat, duck, chinchilla and other critters.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Nothing the staff normally used — Dawn dish soap, chinchilla dust, chemical solvents — could get it off.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 June 2020
  • During a blip in time in the late Jurassic, a dinosaur that weighed no more than a chinchilla flung itself from tree to tree, spread its wings and tried to soar.
    — Sabrina Imbler New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The place would be used to house rabbits, guinea pigs and an occasional chinchilla — all animals that are in need of permanent homes.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • One of them, the tall one, wore a massive oversize grenadier-style coat—a chinchilla of dark blue, double-breasted with a number of missing buttons.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Bobby the leopard gecko can store water and food in his tail, while Chilly the chinchilla has up to 80 hairs in each hair follicle.
    — Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • Finally, the video featured a chinchilla named Poppy rolling in a ball toward the Chiefs logo.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers have now seen evidence of hidden hearing loss in dead mice, guinea pigs, rats, chinchillas, and nonhuman primates.
    — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • While our guide talked, viscachas — Peruvian chinchillas — scurried atop the walls and a quartet of wild llamas gathered on one of the lawns.
    — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Viscachas, which are a type of chinchilla the size of a rabbit, are a good omen for astronomers at the Rubin observatory.
    — Harry Goldstein, IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2025
  • The adorable group of finalists included a chinchilla named Ande, a sheep named Timmy, and a duck named Ping.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The pet cemetery in her yard includes such longtime library favorites as Basil the chinchilla and Nilla the ferret.
    — al, 25 Sep. 2020
  • In another video on Kingston's account, Chelsea shared seven facts about the Persian chinchilla breed.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025

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