How to Use Norway rat in a Sentence

Norway rat

noun

• The Norway rat is the species found in Chicago.
  — Tara Molina, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
• Also called the Norway rat, these rodents are highly adaptive and excellent breeders.
  — Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
• Norway rats can transmit diseases to humans and other animals, damage property, and pollute food.
  — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026
• While roof rats make their homes in trees, rafters, and attics, Norway rats look for lower ground, digging out interconnected systems of tunnels and nesting spaces.
  — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026
• Slightly longer and heavier than roof rats, Norway rats have several other common names, says wildlife biologist Michel Kohl.
  — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026
• There are a few possibilities for non-gopher holes, including the Norway rat, voles, moles, rabbits, ground squirrels and snakes, which don’t dig their own underground burrows but take over old tunnels and improve upon them.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
• Virtually all of these are Rattus norvegicus—the brown rat, aka the Norway rat—a larger and more robust species than the black rat (Rattus rattus), which arrived first on ships in the 1600s but was displaced by the brown rat in the 1700s.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2025