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"Mongoose" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Never having seen a mongoose, I do not know what they are like.
I've never seen a mongoose, so I have no idea what it is.
We happen to see a mongoose crossing the road. Its tail is bushy and its coat is grayish.
The mongoose always stay together as a group.
The mongoose feed on snakes and insects.
The genet, mongoose and weasel are small carnivorous animals that love to feed on snakes and rodents and sometimes wreak havoc in poultry houses.
A mongoose and a cat are playing together.
On the U.S. Pacific island state of Hawaii, an invasive predator is threatening many native bird species with extinction. The predator is the mongoose, a non-native mammal introduced to the island chain over a century ago to control rats in the sugar cane fields. Now, environmental groups say, it's the mongoose that's out of control, feeding on the eggs and chicks of the island's many ground-nesting birds, including several endangered species that lay just one egg per year.
Mongoose are just one of many threats facing Hawaii's birds. There are other invasive animals and plants, insect-borne diseases, and habitat destruction. Bortner says the Fish and Wildlife Service has joined with other groups to restore habitats, install predator traps and fencing and support captive breeding programs for such endangered bird species as the Hawaiian crow.
The mongoose has caught a snake.
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After the mongoose had satisfied its appetite, we proceeded to examine with a pocket lens the wounds he had received from the cobra; and on cleansing one of these places, the lens disclosed the broken fang of the cobra deeply imbedded in the head of the mongoose... We have had the mongoose confined ever since (now four days' time), and it is as healthy and lively as ever.
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
To unsuspecting eyes these mongoose relatives can seem eminently pettable.
Hannibal Lecter: I think Uncle Jack sees you as a fragile little tea-cup, the finest china used for only special guests. Will Graham: How do you see me? Hannibal Lecter: The mongoose I want under the house when the snakes slither by.
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