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• The beaver is a social creature, not just occasionally but essentially.From the entry essentially
• The beaver in this instance upheld the reputation of the proverbial one: her output was prodigious.From the entry proverbial
• Wow! Laundry, dishes, and errands, all in one day? You've been a busy beaver.From the entry busy beaver
• She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis.From the entry beaver away
• Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.From the entry ingenuity
• The busyness of a beaver is proverbial.From the entry proverbial
• Another beaver trapper and leader of an overland party, Ewing Young, also tried his hand at ottering.2021, Ogden Adele, The California Sea Otter Trade 1784-1848, page 110. From the entry ottering
• Europe’s giant beavers lived at the same time as the first moose, Libralces gallicus.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 152. From the entry moose
• Early ice-age Europe was also home to giant beavers of the genus Trogontherium.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 152. From the entry giant beaver
• They are semi-aquatic, resembling beavers in all but their long, rat-like tails.2015, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm, Picador, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry coypu
• An “eager beaver” in terms of computing, Gates apparently started programming at age eleven.2007, Bernadette Hlubik Schell, The Internet and Society, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry eager beaver
• The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe.2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, page 46. From the entry plew
• "The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled.2001, Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe, page 7. From the entry plew
• Some of these here beaver trappers are the most uncertainest fellers ever—cuz they’ll argeefie about near anything.1996 November, Terry C[onrad] Johnston, chapter 12, in Buffalo Palace, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry uncertainest
• He was dressed in the suit he'd bought for his mother's funeral, beaver top hat, silk surtout.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 41. From the entry surtout
• The beaver was hunted to extinction in Britain more than three centuries ago, but is today the rewilding movement’s pin-up.2020 October 13, Patrick Barkham, “How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry rewilding
• Since the semi-aquatic beaver was a skilled swimmer, the Church declared it to be a fish for dietary purposes.2017 April 7, sjchurchadmin, Saint Joachim Catholic Church. From the entry fish
• Riding costume (as worn by Her Majesty) of brown cloth; black silk cravat; black beaver hat; white veil.2013, C. Willett Cunnington, English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century, →ISBN. From the entry dustcoloured
• Beavers at the ready at Rust's Anchorage floatbase.2008, Airways: A Global Review of Commercial Flight, volume 15, page 15. From the entry floatbase
• Mice, rats, gophers, groundhogs, the jaculiferous porcupine: they're all more or less miniature beavers — just add water.2005, Bill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey, page 46. From the entry jaculiferous
• Even though the beavers had moved on, the silt remained as a deep, inviting, wet, and murky mass of quicksandlike mud.2004, Jim Hohnberger, Come to the Quiet, page 85. From the entry quicksandlike
• Fall was everywhere from the yellow aspens, to the skiff of ice on the beaver ponds in the morning.2001, Wayde Bulow, Lure of the Mountains: The Frontier Life of a Mountain Man, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry skiff
• At first I thought it was the same theme, beavers and platypodes being related (catoonishly, if not biologically).1999, Plato, “BRAIN for March 19”, in alt.tv.animaniacs.pinky-brain (Usenet). From the entry platypodes
• But quietly and without fuss, thousands of scientists normally beavering away in seclusion downed microscopes, test tubes, and oscilloscopes.1979 June 28, “Feedback: Trouble at th’ Laboratory”, in New Scientist, page 1103. From the entry beaver away
• In the frost-stunted birch forests on the Siberian border, sturdy, windburned mountain men trap beaver and pan for gold.1963, Loren Fessler, The Editors of LIFE, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (LIFE World Library), New York: Time Incorporated…. From the entry mountain man
• Indeed, they are already doing so with all the complacent industry of beavers and the beaverly repetition of aims and methods.1963, The Canadian Forum: A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affairs. From the entry beaverly
• Then comes Canadian beaver dyed bright gold, in a coat with wide horizontal bands and pockets at the side front.1960, The New Yorker - Volume 36, Part 4, page 148. From the entry chillth
• Beaver, who was almost dancing with delight.1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. From the entry knock
• She wore a large, dowdy hat of black beaver, and a sort of slightly affected simple dress that made her look rather sack-like.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Part 2, Chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 195. From the entry sacklike
• Beaver had his moments—like forgetting his homework, falling for playground rumors, or being unsure how to handle a tricky situation—but Mathers was much more brave and self-assured.2025 May 30, “The good and bad of being a child actor, according to Jerry Mathers”, in MeTV. From the entry playground rumor
• His services are increasingly in demand from a new generation of rewilders, including wealthy landowners wanting to bring back beavers, as well as harvest mice, wildcats and white storks.2020 October 13, Patrick Barkham, “How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry rewilder
• Beavers himself suffered a back injury that ended his army career that same year, his daughter Charlotta Beavers said, after strong winds forced him to land upside down.2017 December 21, Harrison Smith, “Clarence Beavers: Veteran of America’s first ‘test’ platoon of black paratroopers in the Second World…. From the entry Charlotta
• It can be found both in the capybara and the harvest mouse, in the beaver and the squirrel, and in the meadow mouse and the scaletail.2013, Pierre-P. Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry scaletail
• Another common type of error is a circumlocutory error, when the patient describes the item in several words (e.g., describing a beaver as "an animal that eats trees").2000, Joanne Green, Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Older Adult. From the entry circumlocutory

Meaning of beaver

1. noun A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
2. noun The fur of the beaver.
3. noun A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.

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How do you use beaver in a sentence?

Beaver is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The beaver is a social creature, not just occasionally but essentially.”

What is a short sentence with beaver?

“Beaver, who was almost dancing with delight.”

What does beaver mean?

Beaver means a semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.