How to Use hedgehog in a Sentence

hedgehog

noun
  • Or cutting small holes in fences to let hedgehogs roam the city.
    — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 19 July 2019
  • So who wins the battle between the fox and the hedgehog?
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The fox knows many things, Berlin explains, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • And really, can any of us ever get too many hedgehogs in hats?
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Staff there said the hedgehogs had probably been snacking on food left out for pets.
    — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • To top it all off, even seemingly harmless hedgehogs want to steal your eggs.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Two of the hedgehogs are entirely new species of soft-furred hedgehog.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Over the years, the shelter has found homes for ferrets, birds, snakes, a hedgehog, and a pig, as well.
    — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Once you’re done, the bionic hedgehog responds to sound commands.
    — Time For Kids, Time, 22 Nov. 2019
  • But can a film about the blue, spiky hair, sneaker wearing hedgehog avoid the video game curse at the box office?
    — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
  • But the sweet-tasting nut, released from a small golden hedgehog of a burr, was the real prize.
    — Robert Langellier, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
  • Down the hall from the hedgehog, staff fed trilling birds — no bigger than the palm of a hand — with tweezers and syringes.
    — Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The echidna — an egg-laying mammal that looks like a hedgehog with a long snout — has no nipples at all.
    — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Owls, hedgehogs, foxes and sloths also had recent turns in the spotlight.
    — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Alongside the ducks and chicks are chickens, goats, a hedgehog, a cat, a dog and plenty of laughter.
    — Ashley Vega, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Many people brought pets to the station, including a hedgehog.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • For more on what is being done to save the hedgehog, head over to the Wall Street Journal.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2016
  • In parts of 16th-century England, urchin was still the name for a hedgehog.
    — Bernadette Kinlaw, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
  • One of my favorite parts is where the Queen of Hearts grabs the flamingo to play croquet with the hedgehogs.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone’s second-favorite speedy blue hedgehog is back to fight more baddies, and this time, the gloves come off stay on again.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
  • The most novel is from the mid-1950s and appears to be an adorable brass hedgehog figurine.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The hedgehog's quills are a dark brown shade closer to the animal's body before lightening at the edges.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • But by and large, the box office story of the past month has been the lion versus the hedgehog — until this weekend.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Knuckles is on his own urgent mission to find the same gotta-go-fast hedgehog as Robotnik.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Webster traced the legend back to Europe, where hedgehogs and badgers often stir this time of year.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Amy Rose appears as a pink hedgehog whose chief weapon is the Piko Piko Hammer.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But, that year, worms popped up in hedgehogs on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The truck had muddy wheels, and its owner, a hedgehog of a man, short, hairy, stooped, had to shimmy down onto a step bar to reach pavement.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
  • The titular blue hedgehog looked so heinous in early previews that the studio completely changed the look of him.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
  • But unfortunately for the big cat, a tiny but sassy hedgehog is a mile ahead of the pre-Christmas box office race.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'hedgehog.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: