water vole
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"So we've taken that idea and scaled it down to water vole size, which means using glitter."
From BBC • May 18, 2025
The drainage pipe seemed the perfect vole-sized hole, but it took the photographer many days camped on the opposite side of the canal before he saw a water vole that thought the same.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2019
Labour AM for Newport East Mr Griffiths has agreed to champion the water vole, Britain's fastest declining wild mammal.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2016
The most poignant moment of this episode was the split second we saw Molesley in his white gloves scurrying down the corridor like a water vole: “Coming, Mr Carson!”
From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2014
Really they are as easy as the water vole or skunk with me.
From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
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