How to Use chipmunk in a Sentence
chipmunk
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Some samples were even sped up to make soul shouters sound like chipmunks.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 14 July 2026
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Squirrels race around adding to their larders, but the chipmunks are nowhere to be seen yet.
—Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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At the time, there was a resident chipmunk in the same part of the yard.
—Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Oct. 2021
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The girls who felt threatened by my drive said my voice sounded like a chipmunk.
—Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 23 Sep. 2015
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One method uses a small box that attracts mammals such as mice and chipmunks with bait.
—Melissa Banigan, Washington Post, 18 June 2017
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Chip and Dale, once as close as two chipmunk brothers can be, are now estranged.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
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Chip and Dale Chip and Dale are small, brown chipmunks who are best friends.
—Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
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There were dark trees and chipmunks, which have something consoling about them.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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For the chipmunks, their skulls became larger over time, while the row of teeth along the sides of the mouths shrank.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
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These aren't small holes like those created by chipmunks or crayfish or ground-dwelling bees.
—Sallie Lee, AL.com, 8 May 2017
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Birds, chipmunks, snakes, rabbits—cats can and will kill animals up to three times their size.
—Rebecca Van Laer september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
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The girls spotted chipmunks and a bald eagle flying high above a nearby lake.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
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Martens are carnivores known to eat birds and their eggs, small mammals like chipmunks, berries, and nuts.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
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Another problem is the chipmunks and squirrels, who will dig up and eat your bulbs.
—Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Oct. 2025
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Laval has curly hair, a chipmunk grin, and a voice that gurgles with enthusiasm.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
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In front of his window were dark trees and chipmunks, which had something consoling about them.
—Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
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Birds, chipmunks, squirrels, lizards and more will all be safer around the pool thanks to the FrogLog.
—Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2017
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This can prevent chipmunks and other rodents, such as voles, from getting to your bulbs.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
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Use hardware cloth to exclude chipmunks from garden beds, says Owen.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
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Use hardware cloth to exclude chipmunks from garden beds, says Owen.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
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The skulls of chipmunks became larger over time, while the row of teeth along the sides of their mouths became shorter.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
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And Cass was doubtless right — Maggie had treed a chipmunk and wouldn’t stay even with that.
—Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
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The list of the turtles’ predators is long, from raccoons, to skunks, crows, chipmunks and foxes.
—Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 30 May 2018
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Kara no longer resembles a chipmunk whose cheeks are stuffed with nuts and seeds, and her blood pressure is back to normal.
—Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2014
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Wait too long and mice and chipmunks will gnaw on shed antlers to extract the calcium and phosphorous.
—Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 5 Feb. 2020
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The females most often feed on the blood of the eastern chipmunk, the gray squirrel and fox squirrel.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2019
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At the top, enjoy sweeping views and the chattering of chipmunks amid the solitude of this trail deep in the woods.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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Red squirrels still scold you from the branches overhead, and chipmunks scurry away at your approach.
—Don Lyman, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2025
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She is obsessed with country vinyl records, gardening, chipmunks and birds at her home in Maine.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2023
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Keyes uses Google Flights, which can perform even more tricks than the chipmunk ever could.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
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