How to Use critter in a Sentence

critter

noun
  • The woods are filled with skunks, raccoons, and other critters.
  • Help critters find their way out of ponds or pools with a slope or wildlife ramp.
    — Andrea F. Siegel, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Will birds and critters eat the seed in winter?
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Take a look at the little critters here.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The critters dig up the bulbs that my wife spends hours planting.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
  • This goes for cats or any critter that needs to be taken care of.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The critters are chomping at the bit.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Most of these critters will never reach adult life and learn to fly.
    — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • Dozens of dogs, cats and small critters found new homes today.
    — CNN, 23 Nov. 2019
  • One brush by a critter and the pod bursts open to scatter its seeds.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • An overpacked pantry will give those critters lots of places to hide.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2025
  • But there's no need to burn your house down to rid yourself of the critters.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The idea is to get the humans to fall in love with the critters and take one home.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
  • But the critters will be back in 2026.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But all those names stem from one notable feature of the critter.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • Here a group of researchers walked up and down the trails on the hunt for critters of the night.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
  • One day, Shep came trotting home with a tiny critter in his jaw.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Keep an eye out for critters like lizards and June beetles, too.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Some birds also will poke holes in the ground looking for tasty critters.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
  • The first step to get rid of ants (or any critter for that matter) is to deep clean your home.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And any microbes and critters the ships picked up near the equator would be dumped, too.
    — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
  • This 1 1/2 inch critter looks like a pile of small worms, but moves like a slug!
    — baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • There's the bug, their main mascot, a green critter with giant bulging eyes.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And then there’s the critters (this could be anything from squirrels to mice to ground hogs).
    — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The little critters who left over 450 pieces of poop around this joint.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The critter, known for its short and stout body, is built to dig to protect itself when alarmed.
    — Michael Guise, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The death of the black and white striped critter has hit the community hard.
    — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • Keeping them indoors is perhaps the best way to keep them away from critters.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Amid the cute critter shenanigans, this one has plenty of lessons for the parents.
    — Mark Kennedy, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
  • Most of the critters Lange encounters are field mice, along with some voles.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2019

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