How to Use vole in a Sentence

vole

noun
  • Moles aren’t managed the same way as voles.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Have voles made a nice home in your strawberry patch?
    — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Mice and voles will gnaw the tree from under the snow or use the cover of long grass or thick mulch.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
  • There are a few culprits that could be doing this – gophers, voles or mice.
    — oregonlive, 24 June 2023
  • For starters, moles and voles have different diets.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The best management method is trapping voles.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Tall grass is more likely to attract rodents like voles over the winter.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Let your grass grow too tall before winter, and voles, moles, and other rodents may move in.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When a prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) finds a mate, the two form a strong bond.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2013
  • Mice or voles like to hide in taller grass, feeling safe from predators like owls and hawks, or your neighbor’s cat.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The only critter that would consume the entire root of a carrot and not the top is a vole.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2021
  • But some types of tunneling are caused by a different small mammal called a vole.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Cover the trap with a small box with a hole cut in the end because voles prefer to feed under cover.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Cover the trap with a small box with a hole cut in the end because voles prefer to feed under cover.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
  • In an abundant garden, the presence of voles may often mean some losses.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But the Ice Age event left little mark on moles, voles, frogs, trees, shrubs, and grasses.
    — Robert Baker, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The voles scurried away when the little nightingale tried to sing, though not out of cruelty.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Take steps to discourage and rid your garden of moles, voles and other rodent pests.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The voles were bred in captivity and then placed into pens to head to the river banks, the video shows.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
  • These stealthy predators eat their fair share of rabbits, but will also hunt for mice, voles and birds when rabbits run scarce.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • This can prevent chipmunks and other rodents, such as voles, from getting to your bulbs.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
  • As winter drags on, food can become scarce for animals such as deer, rabbits, mice, and voles.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Feb. 2026
  • This means, of course, that those with vole damage should wait before attempting to clean up and reseed the tracks.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In the fall, voles also stockpile seeds, tubers, rhizomes, and bulbs, says Pierce.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But don’t rely on them because if voles are hungry enough or there are enough of them, repellants won’t do much.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Owls dine on mice, voles, rats, squirrels, rabbits, and other pests that plague gardens and invade homes.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Owls dine on mice, voles, rats, squirrels, rabbits, and other pests that plague gardens and invade homes.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
  • These included everything from pine trees to grasshoppers and voles.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That newt never had a Grindr hookup; that vole never looked down at the clouds from the window of an airplane.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
  • On the other hand, voles live in colonies and 100 voles per acre is not unheard of, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026

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