How to Use porcupine in a Sentence

porcupine

noun

• Could be like a porcupine quill, right?
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
• One day, a few friends of mine who were hunters brought eight porcupines with them.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• This will anchor the porcupine body and stop it from rolling around.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• This should anchor the porcupine body and stop it from rolling around.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
• The porcupine caribou come to the coastal plain in summer to give birth to their young.
  — Popular Science, 24 Nov. 2020
• Or maybe the porcupine knows about the skunk and the concubine and just doesn’t care?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• My shoulders, arms, hands, and head were full of needles, like a porcupine.
  — Longreads, 4 Mar. 2020
• The video isn’t the first to show a porcupine defending itself from big cats.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• Sweet gums drop a fruit that is small and spherical and bristling with sharp points like a porcupine the size of a golf ball.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
• Miraculously, none of the tines had been touched by porcupines or mice.
  — Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
• One side of the trail is framed by a wall of tall cholla, a plant famous for wicked barbed spines like those of a porcupine.
  — Jason H. Harper, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2021
• The couple has seen bears, wild turkeys, porcupines, deer, and — a favorite — moose.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 16 Oct. 2019
• Other trees’ leaves may break out in acne-like red spots or sport projections as bristly as a porcupine.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
• Depending on the species, porcupine quills can grow back within months of being shed.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Under normal conditions, the quills lie flat against the body of a porcupine.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Others kick hairs onto the awaiting hands like porcupines.
  — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2025
• Kalunde’s grandfather, a healer, once watched a sick porcupine eat the roots of a plant known to be quite poisonous.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• But this earned the honey badger a face full of quills as the porcupine backed into the predator in defense.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
• But the porcupine grew to an unimaginable size and transformed into a brown bear clawing its way out of the snow.
  — Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2021
• The teaser also gives a sneak peek at snail, pig, black swan, seashell and porcupine costumes that haven't been announced yet.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• Ana Laura’s daughter was thrilled to see a porcupine after reading a book in class.
  — Tony Plohetski, Austin American-Statesman, 17 July 2024
• One of my first memories is of a porcupine in an oak tree that’s within jogging distance of my cabin now.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
• Living animals tend to have tails with weapons that are made of keratin, like the quills of a porcupine or the scales of a pangolin.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• These porcupines, which are native to South America, spend most of their time in the trees.
  — cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Comments range from photos of hedgehogs and porcupines to photos of Zenon.
  — Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 27 June 2017
• The song’s video shows a singing porcupine using Bourelly’s voice and later Skrillex’s voice.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023
• Every game at a show near Tokyo, a porcupine curls up in a garden outside of Moscow and more.
  — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• The species hunts and eats small prey including mice, voles, squirrels, and rabbits, as well as birds, insects, and even porcupines.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
• This tiny porcupine was born with weak hind legs, but with bottle feeds and daily workouts, his comeback is spike-tacular!
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
• The baby porcupine is the third offspring born to Prickles and her mate Shadow.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2022