How to Use squirrel away in a Sentence

squirrel away

verb
  • Allow some of your garlic to flower and plant near tomatoes to help keep squirrels away.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Allow some of your garlic to flower and plant near tomatoes to help keep squirrels away.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But does this actually work for keeping squirrels away?
    — Molly Burford, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
  • Stephen then squirrels away the confessional video for leverage.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Add ornamental pepper plants to fall containers to keep squirrels away from pumpkins on your porch.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Add ornamental pepper plants to fall containers to keep squirrels away from pumpkins on your porch.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Planting mint in the garden is not a good way to keep squirrels away long-term because mint spreads quickly—plus squirrels will learn to ignore it.
    — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 13 May 2026
  • Add ornamental onions to flower beds and edible onions near tomatoes to keep squirrels away.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Add ornamental onions to flower beds and edible onions near tomatoes to keep squirrels away.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Netting is an effective barrier to keep squirrels away from ripening fruits and vegetables.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Netting is an effective barrier to keep squirrels away from ripening fruits and vegetables.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Plastic netting or metal fencing around individual plants or a small garden area is very proactive at keeping squirrels away.
    — Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 28 May 2026
  • Planing peppermint plants, garlic, and bright florals like daffodils and marigolds are options to keep squirrels away from their bright colors and unpalatable taste and odor.
    — Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 28 May 2026
  • Scare tactics, physical barriers, unpleasant deterrents, and lack of resources should keep squirrels away.
    — Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 28 May 2026
  • Unfortunately, scaring squirrels away with loud noises or devices is usually ineffective.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Hoosiers can squirrel away some extra cash each fall by collecting acorns and other tree seeds and selling them to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 11 Nov. 2025
  • What Doesn’t Work Both Mengak and Owen say commercial repellents and essential oils are not effective for keeping squirrels away from your garden or home.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The deadline has prompted security engineers to focus preparations to ward off harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL, and also store now, decrypt later) threats, in which adversaries squirrel away encrypted data flowing over the Internet with the plan of decrypting it on Q-Day—the date a CRQC arrives.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026

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