How to Use box turtle in a Sentence

box turtle

noun

• The pair even shared a strawberry, one of a box turtle’s favorite treats.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
• Aquarist Bryan Danson took two snakes and two box turtles in the cab of his truck.
  — Marci Shatzman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Small mammals eat the fruit, as do box turtles, important in dispersing the seeds.
  — Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• The wardens did find, however, two ornate box turtles and one red-eared slider.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2019
• This can include snakes, salamanders, box turtles, toads and rodents.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
• There was also an ornate box turtle named Walter who might live to 40 years of age.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
• Rats, squirrels, deer, box turtles, wild turkeys, and wild boars, just to name a few that might be visiting your yard, all love mushrooms.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
• Leone says the long-term goal is for Rockalina to eventually join a small colony of five to six female box turtles.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
• Biles also offers a sculpture of a little girl atop a box turtle in which the shell’s pattern has migrated to the child’s face and hands.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Students could touch an ornate box turtle and fox snake at one DNR exhibit.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2018
• Leone has more of the same planned for her, and hopes to eventually build a little box turtle colony for Rockalina.
  — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 12 Dec. 2025
• Eastern box turtles can live well over 100 years, meaning Rockalina may still have decades ahead of her.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
• The lives of box turtles are long and generally spent in small geographical areas.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• Tilcon is willing to relocate box turtles and other species whose habitats would be damaged or wiped out, according to Lenard.
  — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 26 June 2018
• The interest in the ornate box turtles reaches beyond Illinois.
  — Fox News, 26 June 2019
• Habitat destruction threatens the ornate box turtle’s survival in Iowa.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
• The three-toed box turtle is one of the most common turtles motorists will encounter in The Natural State.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 June 2022
• There are possession limits for other species such as box turtles and diamondback terrapins.
  — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020
• The volunteer rescue treats turtles as big as 14-inch snapping turtles and as small as silver dollar-sized eastern box turtles.
  — Scottie Andrew and Nadeem Muaddi, CNN, 29 June 2019
• The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit states.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2024
• As part of the design, Herd includes images of the Yunnan box turtle, which was once thought to be extinct but has recently resurfaced.
  — Jon Niccum, kansascity, 14 June 2018
• Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for $1,000 each, the affidavit stated.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2024
• Although most small mammals cannot get into a box turtle's shell a persistent coyote can eventually work its way through to the turtle underneath.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 June 2022
• Louisiana law prohibits the trade of box turtles – or box turtle eggs or parts – and forbids the taking of wild box turtles for commercial purposes.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2021
• Nothing quite says summer like a stroll along the water’s edge and finding a turn of turtles basking on a log or witnessing the slow and deliberate pace of an eastern box turtle.
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2015
• The family also has a Russian tortoise, a couple of box turtles, some redfoot tortoises and a leopard tortoise.
  — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2019
• Birds, box turtles, salamanders, toads, frogs, and scores of beloved invertebrates such as fireflies, bees, butterflies, and moths, all rely on leaf litter for shelter.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2024
• Today, Rockalina spends her days in a large outdoor enclosure built specifically for eastern box turtles.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
• Native turtle species like bog turtles, wood turtles, diamondback terrapins and eastern box turtles are also protected and cannot be collected or kept as pets.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
• The undercover agent who had first inquired about the turtles contacted the man again about Malaysian box turtles, which under an international treaty require a permit to ship.
  — Linda Satter, Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2019