How to Use nutria in a Sentence

nutria

noun
  • Those nutria need to go, and hell, $6 a tail is pretty good, too.
    — Danny Hinton, Outdoor Life, 29 Dec. 2020
  • An older gentleman took a nutria across the cheek.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • One of the causes of the area’s land erosion is due to the habits of nutria, a non-native swamp rat.
    — National Geographic, 20 May 2020
  • No more than ten minutes passed between nutria sightings.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The program is also bringing in dogs trained to detect nutria.
    — Cat Ferguson, The Mercury News, 16 July 2019
  • When the fur trade collapsed in the 1940s, thousands of nutrias got loose or were set free.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Your California cousins may soon be hitting you up for nutria recipes.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The biologist has managed to catch and kill around 20 nutria since last year.
    — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Because the nutrias had recently been shot, their fur tended to retain the moisture of the swamp.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Since then, the rate of nutria infestation has well outpaced the rate of inflation.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Unlike native Louisiana muskrat, which chomp the leaves of plants, nutria go straight for the roots.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 5 June 2017
  • The animals are social, so the collared animals will lead the team to other nutria.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Coyotes in the southeast were more similar to red wolves, but coyotes likely killed fewer nutria and adult deer.
    — Alex Jensen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The storm was also blamed for washing hundreds of dead nutria ashore on a Mississippi beach.
    — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
  • The swamp rodents, called nutria, are setting off alarms in California.
    — Samantha Maldonado and Terry Chea, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Because many of the contestants had never thrown a discus, let alone a nutria, and since most had been drinking all day, their timing tended to be off.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Now, seven years after the last nutria was caught and killed, experts have officially declared the animals gone — at least for now.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The wild boar effort contrasts with one about 20 years ago to get nutria, an invasive rodent, on restaurant menus and grocery shelves.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The nutria has been a highly destructive rodent that poses a threat to the state’s agriculture and waterways.
    — Samantha Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The nutria, named Parish, crawled out of her den at the zoo early Tuesday morning and did not see her shadow, her caretakers said.
    — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • In the past quarter century alone, the nutria has ingested more than forty square miles of Louisiana.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This led to some debate among participants about the ethics of exterminating a pregnant nutria.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The nutria’s cardinal sin, however, is gluttony.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • About one in three nutrias hooked wide left, into the crowd, scattering those audience members who weren’t too distracted or impaired to notice.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Mute swans, unlike nutria, have a dedicated group of supporters, mostly on the East Coast.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Wildlife experts suspect that the nutria was brought to California from Oregon — on purpose.
    — Samantha Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Terrebonne had 82 percent of the total nutria damage recorded in the latest survey.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 5 July 2017
  • The nutria has already drawn the ire of environmentalists, farmers and local officials.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The return of wolves could be a natural solution for regions where wildlife managers desire a reduction in moose, beaver, nutria or deer populations.
    — Alex Jensen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • McIlhenny did, after all, claim credit for the deed, having bought twenty nutrias in the late Thirties in a bid to stimulate the local fur trade.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

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