How to Use rabbit in a Sentence

rabbit

noun
  • We keep rabbits as pets.
  • One of the friends shot a rabbit that ran across the path.
    Yan Zhuang Tatsiana Chypsanava, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The rabbit in 2023 was supposed to bring us some peace.
    Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Pick a four-leaf clover, rub a rabbit’s foot, knock on wood.
    oregonlive, 13 June 2023
  • Will the rabbit try to make an 11th-hour bid to take over Waystar Royco?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
  • In the other test, the team introduced rabbit blood cells to the bird blood.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The white rabbit didn’t murder The Black lady, no, not on TV.
    Jericho Brown, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Thurber made these drawings for her: there are a rabbit and a dog—those are easy to see.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • What did the rabbit say to their partner on Valentine's Day?
    Fiona Tapp, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Out of the willows burst a snowshoe rabbit, going like the wind.
    Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Small mammals, like mice, rabbits, and voles, make up the bulk of their diet.
    Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Biden beat Donald Trump from his basement in 2020, and then pulled a rabbit out of his hat in ...
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Alice, a small white rabbit, arrived around the same time.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • And also the skull of something small, perhaps a rabbit.
    Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Misreading the room Maybe Kliavkoff will pull a rabbit out of his hat and silence the doubters.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • As the name implies, bunny blonde refers to the shade of a rabbit's soft, sandy fluff, which is never just one allover hue.
    Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Can’t go wrong with a classic mai tai, served in what looked like a stout little rabbit mug.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Out with the quick-witted rabbit and in with the auspicious, fiery dragon for 2024.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Double-the-pleasure rabbit vibes are on sale too, and butt plugs galore.
    Sarah Madaus, SELF, 12 July 2023
  • And look for the rabbit who thumps their foot just like Thumper from the 1942 animated classic.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The rabbit can move its head, legs, mouth, and ears, and the cockatoo can rotate its head 360 degrees and move its wings and tail.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The petting zoo will include ducks, chickens, sheep, goats and rabbits inside the stores.
    Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2023
  • An oil painting of white rabbits rests above her head; an oversize Noguchi light hangs from the ceiling.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2023
  • At $200, the tasting menu included wagyu rib-eye, rabbit and sea bass topped with parsnip and red beets.
    Ceylan Yeğinsu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • There would only be monkeys here, and deer there and rabbits in between.
    Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Someone with the power to make or break my economic future gave me a set of terms and I, like a rabbit in the mouth of a wolf, went limp.
    Genevieve Angelson, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Deer don't like their texture, but beware that rabbits do!
    Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The meat pies, boudin balls and rabbit and dumplings all resemble dishes found in the truck stops and plate-lunch places of Cajun country.
    Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The opera begins with Mary recounting a little fable about a fox and a rabbit.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Water lilies thrive in the park's six ponds, while deer, rabbits, otters, and other critters make their homes on land.
    Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023

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