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How to use critter in a sentence

32 example sentences · noun

Critter means a creature, and specifically, an animal or something animal-like. Example: “I almost caught the critter, but it got away from me.”

Examples of critter by meaning

nounA creature, and specifically, an animal or something animal-like.

  • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32

nounA small locomotive used in an industrial setting.

  • One of the biggest challenges facing a railfan photographer is the correct identification of one manufacturer's "critter" locomotive from that of another competing builder.2025 March 7 (last accessed), R. Craig Rutherford, The Diesel Shop

More sentences with critter

  • I almost caught the critter, but it got away from me.From the entry get away
  • We smoked the critters out of their hole.From the entry smoke out
  • I always thought that diaper suit thing was cute, especially as like a mom diaper critter.2015 April 3, @RingtailRenegay, Twitter. From the entry diaper critter
  • Then it wasn't one lonesome critter; it was a woodsful, tearing each others' eyeballs out.2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still. From the entry woodsful
  • Wondering why bother since she's already got every crotch critter in the textbook?"2008, Kristopher Reisz, Unleashed, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry crotch critter
  • I don't have time to be screwing around with critter problems.2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry brown shirt
  • Almost any place worth camping in comes equipped with a full complement of night-foraging critters.2005, Don Jacobson, One-Pan Gourmet Fresh Food On The Trail. From the entry minibear
  • Besides turts big enough to act as foundations for your new seafaring home, Genesis is offering a bounty of new critters.2020 March 1, Natalie Clayton, “Part one of Ark Genesis' monstrous expansion is out now”, in Rock Paper Shotgun. From the entry turt
  • But Peterson, a remote sensing scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, wasn’t looking at a critter of the eight-legged variety.2019 August 22, Maya Wei-Haas, “Record-breaking lightning as long as Kansas spotted”, in National Geographic. From the entry spider lightning
  • I want to be a dumb little diaper critter who just wants to squish you and give you hugs!2017 December 6, @DiaperDook, Twitter. From the entry diaper critter
  • All in all, toxoplasmata seem to be unpleasant but otherwise unimportant little critters, if you don't happen to be pregnant.2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 198. From the entry toxoplasma
  • But he loves taking pictures of all critters, he said, and noticed a stand of flamingos wading in a salt pond.2014 March 12, Matt Davenport, “Carmel man snaps photo of rare black flamingo”, in Monterey Herald, archived from the original on 01 Aug…. From the entry stand
  • The poor little critter has been scratching constantly and it may take a while to get her better.2014 March 28, The Daring Dufas, “'rat from hell'”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet). From the entry dogtor
  • I'll trade a critter for a godlike alien, any day!2001 July 14, Meltdown (Farscape), season 3, episode 12, spoken by John Crichton (Ben Browder). From the entry godlike
  • The situation that came up was me playing my control critters deck vs. a mono-brown deck and some others.2001 September 18, Howling Fang [username], “Token ownership”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules (Usenet). From the entry mono-brown
  • If you've got an animal that traditionally stays in cages, don't expect to have a real happy enclosed Sagittarian critter.1998, Diana Nilsen, Your Pet's Horoscope, page 75. From the entry sag
  • Ann's son was so good at mimicking marmots that he was soon "talking" to a whole valleyful of the critters.1997, John Graham, Outdoor Leadership: Technique, Common Sense & Self-confidence. From the entry valleyful
  • A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount.1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in…. From the entry ride
  • "The pesky critters are wondrous fond of water."1901, William Tucker Washburn, The Deuce of Hearts, page 445. From the entry unhole
  • Maybe jus a crinkle critter fops?2016 January 31, @LittleBigToof, Twitter. From the entry crinkle critter
  • Mose gave a shy grin declaring, “I really just manage the bunk house and all those honery critters that live there with me.”2011, LaVerne Shaw, Tangled Vines, page 23. From the entry honery
  • The fedgov passes law after law, and forces the businesses to adapt to whatever ridiculous fashionable, politically correct mandates that the congress critters want.2009 June 4, Bama Brian, “Cheney: Bush passed buck on GM to Obama”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 24 Mar 2022. From the entry fedgov
  • I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love.2002, Vernor Vinge, The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, →ISBN. From the entry transhuman
  • Wasps and bees aren’t the brainiest critters on the face of the earth, but they sure know where their dinner comes from: brightly colored flowers!2002, Jerry Baker, Backyard Problem Solver: 2,168 Natural Solutions for Growing Great Grass, Super Shrubs, Bright Bulbs, Perfect…. From the entry gardenwear
  • When a cow critter gets all haired up in a thick winter coat, a brand gets harder to read than an earmark.1966, S. Omar Barker, chapter 3, in Little World Apart, page 38. From the entry hair up
  • They’re the uncertainest critters there is.”1909 March 1, “Meant to Be Funny”, in Duluth Evening Herald, Duluth, Minn.: The Herald Company, page 6, column 6. From the entry uncertainest
  • But with air-breathing lungs and a four-limbed body plan both in place, it wasn't long before these fingersome critters used their adaptations to access drier abodes.2021, Elsa Panciroli, Beasts Before Us, page 56. From the entry fingersome
  • When sweet-hearted Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) decides he wants his own family and stumbles onto dino eggs, he adopts the little critters, unleashing all manner of prehistoric chaos.2009 July 9, Hugh Hart, “Movies: ’’Bruno’’ Ups Ante on Outrage”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sweet-hearted
  • They are supposed to catch the steer by the head and heels (hind legs), stretch the critter out on the ground and tie a hobble rope around its hind legs.2013, Fay E. Ward, The Cowboy at Work. From the entry hobble rope
  • That's so the little critters can go there and eat their little hearts out instead of getting them smashed out on the road as a part of a pavement pizza.1995, Margaret Lawrence, “Cousin Cassie′s Cookin′”, in Annette J. Bruce, J. Stephen Brooks, editors, Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida…. From the entry pavement pizza

Meaning of critter

  1. noun A creature, and specifically, an animal or something animal-like.
  2. noun A small locomotive used in an industrial setting.

Full definition of critter

Questions about critter in a sentence

How do you use critter in a sentence?
Critter is used as a noun. For example: “I almost caught the critter, but it got away from me.”
What is a short sentence with critter?
“Maybe jus a crinkle critter fops?”
What does critter mean?
Critter means a creature, and specifically, an animal or something animal-like.

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