How to Use mole rat in a Sentence

mole rat

noun
  • Not even those pesky giant mole rats that love to jump out of the ground and bite me.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Like the mole rat, a female bat may produce half her body weight in milk every day.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • Like most rodents, the mole rat has teeth that are always growing and need to be ground down.
    — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2018
  • The highveld mole rat is immune to the pungency of mustard, radishes, and wasabi.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Scientists want to sort out what to tweak in our biology to mimic the mole rat’s longevity.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 May 2021
  • Meanwhile, up in the sky, bats lead a much more egalitarian existence than do meerkats or mole rats.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • Ambassadors at the Houston Zoo include a red panda and a mole rat.
    — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Not only did each mole rat have its own vocal signature, but each colony had its own distinct dialect, which was passed down, culturally, over generations.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Other labs are analyzing the animals’ gut microbiome or tinkering with reprogrammed mole rat stem cells.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 May 2021
  • The authors think these results could also explain magnetoreception in bats and blind mole rats, which don’t have functioning cryptochromes or live in environments with little to no light.
    — ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026
  • One hundred million simulated neurons would be on par with the Ansell’s mole rat, described as a species of rodent native to Zambia that's noted for its tunnels that can stretch over two kilometers long.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 15 July 2019
  • The reserve is also home to the endangered sandy blind mole rat, the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin, rare flowers, countless mollusks, dozens of species of fish — and, in recent weeks, an invading military.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022

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