How to Use raccoon in a Sentence

raccoon

noun

• But the foul-mouthed raccoon takes the spotlight for the first time in Vol.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
• Red pandas look a bit like a small fox and are about the size of a raccoon.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• The one on the left a detailed oil painting of the royal raccoon king.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 30 June 2022
• The raccoon left puncture wounds in the other dog’s leg.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
• The man hefted the entrapped raccoon into the trunk of his car.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• When a raccoon high-fives you, its claws graze your palm.
  — Yael Martínez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• The researchers soon confirmed the virus in 11 raccoons, two cats and one skunk.
  — Emily Anthes Andres Kudacki, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Ukraine’s Defense Ministry posted one of the videos and warned of reprisal for the raccoon theft.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• Along the way, predators such as seagulls, crabs and raccoons will snatch them off the beach.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Slowly waddling up the side of a 20-foot fan palm was a plump raccoon.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• Some said a raccoon had sneaked into the water tank and died there.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• The episode, which ran the first year the show aired, features Laura's love of a new pet raccoon, Jasper, and her dog, Jack.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
• Cindy Smith was working as a bartender on Sept. 6, when the woman brought the raccoon.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2022
• But before any of that, it was overrun by cats and raccoons.
  — Curbed, 22 May 2023
• Jefferson said the noise might’ve been a raccoon, Zion said.
  — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2022
• The raccoon at one point fell off her arm, but jumped back on to continue the attack.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
• If he wasn’t eaten by raccoons, the winter frost would kill him.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• A couple of years ago, a raccoon broke into the pen and chewed the female turtle’s front legs off.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• His first task was to control the raccoons and coyotes that had lost their fear of humans.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Braun, a sophomore, noted that reports of raccoons at the school go back decades.
  — Fox News, 7 May 2023
• And just like that, my face is totally clean (no raccoon eyes here!).
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Allure, 24 Oct. 2022
• Both raccoons and mice have found their way into holes in the walls of the museum portion of the building.
  — Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
• As her daughter screamed, MacNamara came out of the home and was able to get the raccoon off of her daughter.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2022
• The raccoon had broken a bottle of the aromatherapy spray and walked through the liquid.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
• The final, touching images see the parent and child raccoon again perched safely up on their tree branch, in the woods.
  — oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2022
• Watch the video to see a kindhearted man save a baby raccoon from drowning.
  — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• Like, guys: there's a talking raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper and a big tree that repeats the same line over and over voiced by Vin Diesel.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 May 2022
• An injured raccoon in the roadway near West Hill Drive caused traffic to back up around 4:30 p.m. March 3.
  — cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
• Calvin Coolidge once pardoned a raccoon on Thanksgiving and then kept it as his pet.
  — Ella Quittner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
• The next day, a deceased raccoon was located on top of the same bench at the Memorial Garden.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024