Definition of Badger
badger (noun) - sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
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How can badger be used in a sentence?
Ooops I forgot she has already critize that position. badger
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nullThe badger is a tip of the hat to Wisconsin, the Badger State.
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nullBEHAR: We found out during the break that a badger is a weasel.
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nullThere is a picture of us wearing a matching badger-print outfit.
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nullPushed by our host, who was rather inclined to "badger" the Higher
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nullHe is known as the badger because of his white hair and black eyebrows.
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nullMs. KORPOS: We found evidence of kit fox, badger, breeding burrowing owls.
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nullShe's someone that now you don't have to necessarily kind of badger all the time.
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nullHe'll produce a badger from a sack, and he'll proceed to stuff the badger down his pants.
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nullThirty years ago, there was no bovine TB and the local badger population was modest on his farm.
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nullWilkinson prefers to think of auto manufacturing as a "badger" refusing to be dragged out of its den.
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nullFor some strange weird wacko reason the word "badger" and the phrase "moment of madness" seem to be related.
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null(among the Indians a coward is often called a badger) he hissed; and he struck the suppliant down before him.
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nullMy initial reaction when she announced her resignation was that she was going to badger him on anything and everything.
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nullThey bully and badger and browbeat players, hindering their ability to make momentous and possibly life-altering choices.
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nullThe GOP goal: to bully, cow, and badger Kagan to insure that she toes the line not solely before the panel, but on the bench.
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nullI laughed listening to Graham badger Sotomayor about her evaluation, in which she was accused of badgering lawyers in her court.
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nullTheir goal remains: to bully, cow, and badger her to insure that she toes the line not solely before the panel, but on the bench.
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nullThere is much obscurity as to the meaning of the word tachash, rendered "badger" in the Authorized Version, (Exodus 25: 5; 35: 7) etc.
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nullBack to ProgDay, also known as badger gets more sun in two days than he does for the rest of the year, for the second and last day of the festival.
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nullThere's plenty to choose from with Vietnam being top of his list but he stops short of anything too radical and releases a badger from the local zoo instead.
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nullLike a badger, I burrow deep in a dark downstairs closet, clawing under fallen wardrobe, unable to look past neither the drawn drapes nor the next ticking second.
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nullThe move, which has been welcomed by local farmers and environmentalists, raises hopes there may be an alternative to a controversial badger cull in parts of England and Wales.
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null_European badger and Glutton_; and in the south, the _Indian badger_; while in the Himalaya chain dwells another animal, closely allied to the badgers, called the _Wha_ or _Panda_.
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nullIt had a broken stove but we had a good time anyway and Dennis told a riveting story of catching an angry badger as a boy and clutching it while it struggled, unable to put it down, unable to do anything.
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nullAmong the subjects covered were charges for alcoholic NHS patients, opposition to raising the pension age, the capital gains tax increase, the route for a high-speed rail line and an end to the badger cull.
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nullThere are bears and wolves, which are small and timorous; and a brown wild-cat, without spots, which is very improperly called a tiger; otter, beavers, foxes, and a species of badger which is called raccoon.
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null"Vaccination will be a good tool in the arsenal but you still need a way of keeping the badger population under control and at the same time preventing cruelty because no one wants any cruelty towards badgers."
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nullA badger is a most desperate fighter, and an overmatch for a coyote, his hide being very thick and his form so squat and strong that it is hard to break his back or legs, while his sharp teeth grip like a steel trap.
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nullA badger was never really a "badger" even when alive, at least not to itself or another badger, for badgers - and iguanas, camels, ants, etc - have no human language; therefore a badger is/was only a "badger" to a human.
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nullIt's a truly excellent comic, LOTS of archive, great storylines, amazing bits of humor (the bees and the badger are my favorite so far and I am SO not explaining that), and a lot of historical accuracy and interesting geeky details.
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nullA crusty local man came along, took in the situation at a glance, reached in the back of his truck, pulled out a roll of smooth fence wire, took the badger from Dennis and swiftly wrapped it up in coils like the neck of a Benin princess.
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nullI often come down this lane at night, slowly, in case a badger is scurrying into the bank or a hare making off for the open fields, and in the early autumn the steep perspective here gives the full moon the look of an enormous poacher's lantern hanging up in the trees.
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nullHere we see Chancellor Darling taking time to show Jessica Morden how to read and put across govt disasters as successes....2009 update -New Labour rubber-stamp that has never voted against the Government, who was foisted on the people of Newport from an all women shortlist; as a reward for her work in removing Ron "badger" Davies.
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nullWe wore the rudest and simplest clothing, and hoed (when we hoed) with furious strokes; but as the sun grew hot we usually fled to the shade of the great maples which filled the back yard, and there, at ease, recounted the fierce toil of the Iowa harvest fields, recalling the names of the men who shared it with us, -- and so, while all around us green things valorously expanded, and ripening apples turned to scarlet and gold in their coverts of green, we burrowed deep in the soil like the badger which is the symbol of our native state.
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Tips for Using badger in a Sentence
You may have an easier time writing sentences with badger if you know what words are likely to come before or after it, or simply what words are often found in the same sentence.
Frequent Predecessors
Words that often come before badger in sentences. For example: "the badger" or "a badger"
- the
- a
- and
- to
- of
- honey
- or
- at
- old
- joseph
Frequent Successors
Words that often come after badger in sentences. For example: "badger ." or "badger and"
- .
- and
- was
- is
- state
- in
- the
- had
- to
- him
Associated Words
Words that aren't necessarily predecessors or successors, but are often found in the same sentence.
- sett
- culling
- cull
- polecat
- marten
- stink
- weasel
- skunk
- raccoon
- bobcat
Alternate Definitions
- badger (verb) - persuade through constant efforts
- badger (noun) - one who buys corn and other provisions to sell them elsewhere; a hawker; a huckster; a cadger
- badger (noun) - a fossorial plantigrade carnivorous mammal, of the family <em>mustelidæ</em> and subfamily <em>melinæ.</em>
- badger (noun) - the <em>lutraria vulgaris</em>, a common conchiferous or bivalve mollusk of northern europe. it is especially used as bait for the cod
- badger (noun) - a badgeman; one entitled or required by law to wear a badge, as the police, licensed porters, and others
- badger (noun) - an erroneous translation, in the english version of the bible, of the hebrew <em>tahash</em>, an animal whose skins are mentioned 13 times in the old testament as coverings for the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, and the tabernacle itself, and once (in ezek. xvi. 10) as a material for the shoes or sandals worn by women
- badger (noun) - in australia, the bandicoot, <em>perameles</em>, and, rarely, the rock-kangaroo, <em>petrogale.</em>
- badger (noun) - a soldier who wears short whiskers
- badger (noun) - a carnivorous quadruped of the genus meles or of an allied genus. it is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. one species (<spn>meles meles</spn> or <spn>meles vulgaris</spn>), called also <altname>brock</altname>, inhabits the north of europe and asia; another species (<spn>taxidea taxus</spn> or <spn>taxidea americana</spn> or <spn>taxidea labradorica</spn>) inhabits the northern parts of north america. see <xref urlencoded="teledu">teledu</xref>
- badger (noun) - see <er>dachshund</er>
- badger (noun) - an itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another
- badger (transitive verb) - to beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain
