How do you use Gerbil in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like rodent, plus the exact meaning.
Gerbil meaning
A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
Synonyms of Gerbil
Using Gerbil
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
- Useful related words include: gerbille, rodent, gnawer, gnawing animal.
Context around Gerbil
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gerbil
- In this selection, "gerbil" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ginger, diminutive, heard, burp and chris stand out and add context to how "gerbil" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a diminutive gerbil or zig and and a gerbil as bait. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gerbil" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gerbil
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Even Richard Gere's gerbil heard it. (7 words)
A trap containing a pigeon and a gerbil as bait was also installed to catch the bird. (17 words)
I count 8 such comments from this poster on this thread alone, which if combined amount to the intellectual equivalent of a gerbil burp. (24 words)
Slappy chappy Jeremy Clarkson is lucratively embedded at Amazon’s the Grand Tour while ginger gerbil Chris Evans’s disastrously shouty season at the helm of the BBC cash-cow is a fading memory. (34 words)
Many of these creatures will only be apparent from their tracks and trails or from a fleeting glimpse of a diminutive gerbil, or zig-zigging hare, in the car headlights at night. (32 words)
I count 8 such comments from this poster on this thread alone, which if combined amount to the intellectual equivalent of a gerbil burp. (24 words)
Example sentences (5)
A trap containing a pigeon and a gerbil as bait was also installed to catch the bird.
Even Richard Gere's gerbil heard it.
I count 8 such comments from this poster on this thread alone, which if combined amount to the intellectual equivalent of a gerbil burp.
Slappy chappy Jeremy Clarkson is lucratively embedded at Amazon’s the Grand Tour while ginger gerbil Chris Evans’s disastrously shouty season at the helm of the BBC cash-cow is a fading memory.
Many of these creatures will only be apparent from their tracks and trails or from a fleeting glimpse of a diminutive gerbil, or zig-zigging hare, in the car headlights at night.