prairie dogs
- plural of prairie dog.
Example Sentences
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"But there aren't any prairie-dogs where I live in Illinois," returned Young, smiling.
From The Adventures of a Freshman by Williams, Jesse Lynch
The accepted function of carbon bisulphide in the great Southwest is to kill off prairie-dogs.
From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane
And so on up, to the forerunners of our present-day animals–coyotes and prairie-dogs.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus
Most on 'em burnt their toes and fingers off, lightin' on't thar in the white frost, but they stuck it through and saved—wall, the prairie-dogs.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
