How to Use gray squirrel in a Sentence

gray squirrel

noun
  • Yet the eastern gray squirrel is the species that's most prevalent.
    — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Spatial mapping would make sense in gray squirrels, Leaver says.
    — Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Another gray squirrel perched on an oak limb, its tail flicking with every bark.
    — Johnny Carrol Sain, Outdoor Life, 6 Oct. 2020
  • While gray squirrels are solitary, flying squirrels may live in colonies of four to five squirrels.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The partridge wings were served en papillate, and the gray squirrels were simmered in Madeira.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The females most often feed on the blood of the eastern chipmunk, the gray squirrel and fox squirrel.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The gray squirrels are Douglas and Phyllis—two lovely, soft, blue-gray names.
    — Liana Finck, The New York Review of Books, 15 Mar. 2020
  • The ticks’ favorite mammalian host, the western gray squirrel, does not frequent seaside grass-scapes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2021
  • Eastern gray squirrels usually have multi-shade brown or completely black fur.
    — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • While gray squirrels spend much of their lives in trees — and depend on canopy connectivity — fox squirrels will forage far and wide.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • Along with her colleagues, Burnham offered 11 gray squirrels a simple task.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Some squirrels are known to hide nuts and eat them later on during hibernation, but gray squirrels do not hibernate.
    — Fox News, 26 Jan. 2020
  • For the past three years, a gray squirrel has set out to ruin my life, chewing leaves off my beloved exotic hibiscus and geraniums.
    — Julie Zickefoose, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But those efforts ground to a halt during the pandemic, and the gray squirrel population has rebounded.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Schorger wrote in the 1940s a comprehensive history of the black form of the gray squirrel.
    — Benjamin Peters, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
  • Where pine martens are present, the evidence suggests that gray squirrel populations are suppressed and red squirrel numbers rebound.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The latter also offers a half-day expedition with staff falconers during which the birds hunt eastern gray squirrels in local forests.
    — Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The eastern gray squirrel is another common Michigan squirrel.
    — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Many natural options include Saikoho goat, gray squirrel, silver fox, and even Kolinsky sable.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Later, a gray squirrel expressed its displeasure at an interloper disrupting its peace.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Kentucky Kentucky's state mammal is the gray squirrel, declared in 1968 as the state wild animal game species.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • In neighborhoods from Maine to the Midwest, homeowners say the sickly gray squirrels are turning up in backyards and around bird feeders.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The western gray squirrel is threatened in Washington state, and biologists need to know more about them to understand what's happening.
    — Eva Lewandowski, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
  • This can take some ingenuity as the average gray squirrel can jump at least 4 feet straight up in the air, 8 to 10 feet sideways, and more than that when jumping down from above.
    — Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 20 June 2017
  • Responding to Bob Sloan’s plea for help with his apple-eating Western gray squirrels, readers shared their tips for how to keep squirrels out of fruit trees.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The gray squirrel, which has large white patches of fur, has been making itself at home in the area near the Asian Glade and Japanese Gardens.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The animals were once common throughout the United Kingdom, but the invasive gray squirrel has pushed them to the brink of extinction in all but a few strongholds.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Western gray squirrels are still occasionally found in the Verdugo Mountains north of Burbank.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • Opossums and gray squirrels, for instance, are frequent thieves, says Rich Chipman, the program’s coordinator.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The American robin is among a handful of wildlife species, including the house sparrow, gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit and coyote, able to thrive in a variety of habitats.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023

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