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How to use possum in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Possum means a marsupial of several families of the order Diprotodontia, found in Australia and neighboring islands. Example: “Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.”

More sentences with possum

  • Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.From the entry play possum
  • The soldier played possum, fooling the sniper.From the entry play possum
  • We'd catch the possum an' then we'd help ourselves to the 'simmons.2023 [original, quoted text: ????], When We Were Slaves: Hundreds of Recorded Interviews... (Work Projects Administration). From the entry 'simmon
  • A passel of joeys (baby possums) came right up to the canoe.2019, Kevin Revolinski, Paddling Wisconsin: A Guide to the State's Best Paddling Routes, Globe Pequot, page viii. From the entry passel
  • Anons beat innocent possums to death, while anonettes get stood up on dates.2017 September 22, u/ScrotalKahnJr, “Anon goes on tinder date”, in Reddit, r/4chan. From the entry anonette
  • Peter had four barramundi and Rosie had three turtles, a possum and a fat file snake.1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 259. From the entry file snake
  • It fell with a crash, pinning a large brush-tailed possum to the ground.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 56. From the entry brushtail possum
  • I was once in a relationship with a woman for four years who then transformed into a possum.2024 November 11, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Laszlo's Father” (1:34 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 6…. From the entry shapeshifter
  • Marking each baby with a different color is another way for rehabbers to tell who's who in a passel of possums.2022, Ally Burguieres, Possums Are Not Cute!: And Other Myths about Nature's Most Misunderstood Critter, Quirk Books. From the entry passel
  • "Possum an' 'simmons come together, and bofe is good fruit." Better divide the 'simmons with the 'possum and his family.2015 February 15, Julia Ellen Rogers, Trees for Everyone - Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry 'simmon
  • An ex-slave commented on their gastronomical worth: “but verily there is nothing in all butcherdom so delicious as a roasted ’possum.”2014, Sam Bowers Hilliard, Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, pages 47–48. From the entry butcherdom
  • 'Fox and dog and possum like simmons.2013 June 5, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers, Vintage, →ISBN. From the entry simmon
  • Play possum if you can, make him think he doesn't have to try too hard to beat you."2004, J. V. Jones, A Fortress of Grey Ice (Sword of Shadows; book two), page 268. From the entry underjudge
  • There were giant possums, huge marsupial lions, and kangaroos.1981, Margaret Rau, Red Earth, Blue Sky: The Australian Outback, New York, N.Y: Crowell, page 5. From the entry wombatlike
  • Possum up a simmon tree, Raccoon on the ground, Says the Raccoon to the Possum, "Shake them simmons down."1904 [????], Thomas William Jackson, Through Missouri on a Mule, page 61. From the entry simmon
  • A baby possum named Hush eats many kinds of food to become visible again after Grandma Poss uses magic to make him invisible.1998, Desiree Webber, Travel the Globe: Multicultural Story Times, page 5. From the entry vegemite
  • He again denied this, but stated that he did eat a great many "possum apples," which is the regional name for persimmons.1942, Stanton A. Rachlin, “Intragastric Benign Tumor Associated with Penetrating Ulcer of the Lesser Curvature”, in The Medical Bulletin…. From the entry possum apple
  • Joe Ed was a stocky blond boy who could play a guitar and shoot the eye out of a possum at fifty yards—but not much else.1951, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, s:The Tree's Wife. From the entry do-little

Meaning of possum

  1. noun A marsupial of several families of the order Diprotodontia, found in Australia and neighboring islands.
  2. noun An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
  3. verb To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.

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Questions about possum in a sentence

How do you use possum in a sentence?
Possum is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.”
What is a short sentence with possum?
“'Fox and dog and possum like simmons.”
What does possum mean?
Possum means a marsupial of several families of the order Diprotodontia, found in Australia and neighboring islands.

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