How to Use gopher in a Sentence

gopher

noun
  • The holes also are too small for gophers, moles and ground squirrels.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Most people have never heard of, let alone seen, a dusky gopher frog.
    — Tate Watkins, National Review, 29 Oct. 2021
  • There are a few culprits that could be doing this – gophers, voles or mice.
    — oregonlive, 24 June 2023
  • The gophers and the weeds have moved in, and scores of grave markers are falling apart.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Hill could yet emerge if Fleener steps in a gopher hole or something.
    — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Installing a barrier of gopher mesh to keep the pests out.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The gophers that have made your back yard the Penn Station of the gopher world?
    — Broti Gupta, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Under the law, using traps to catch gophers, house mice, rats, moles and voles would still be permitted.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • This is a place that thumps with the energy of a thousand gophers turning over knowledge.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Gophers' fans hope that imagination carries over to the field.
    — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • These birds work alone, flying out solo in search of prey including snakes, fish, frogs, gophers or even small birds.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2017
  • Popping up like gophers, the piece encourages you to look at strangers with a whole new perspective.
    — Kat Herriman, CNT, 10 June 2017
  • In this case, though, the heron was clearly taking the initiative, stalking the gopher like a pro.
    — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2014
  • In the stands, Bill Murray was looking for gophers beneath his seat.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Had the court split evenly, the dusky gopher frog’s lower-court victory would have been upheld.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • At Topo, in downtown Gilbert, the roof is flanked by a 7-foot-tall statue of a gopher.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Line the bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • See nature in action as gopher tortoises burrow in the dunes and shorebirds wade in the surf.
    — Ana Pelayo Connery, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
  • Gray foxes keep gopher, vole, ground squirrel, rat and mice populations in check.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Protect new plants by planting into gopher baskets.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • As a result, the fields don’t look as good, and the holes left by ground squirrels and gophers were a hazard to children playing sports.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Thus, weed control is important for gopher control.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Their brother, Bill, steals the film as an unstable groundskeeper who is tasked with killing an errant gopher.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
  • The Cardinals practiced twice a week on the school’s hard, dry, gopher-friendly soccer field.
    — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
  • The Minnesota high-school boys’ hockey tournament is a hot ticket in the gopher state.
    — Will Connors, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Beal had once built a bomb to eliminate a neighborhood gopher, the prosecutor said.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • The coyotes will instead hunt prey such as gophers, voles, rabbits, squirrels and other small animals.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 16 May 2020
  • The Gophers were actually in the playoff race all the way to the last week of the regular season.
    — The Lonnquist Notes, By Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Join daily nature walks to hunt for shells and shark teeth, and learn the differences between gopher tortoises and sea turtles.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
  • No more rat droppings in the crawl space or in or on the mechanical equipment that is there, and the mole and gopher holes on our hillside have decreased again.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2019

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