Get to know Groundhog better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like woodchuck or marmot.
Groundhog meaning
- A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.
- The aardvark.
- Synonym of groundlubber
Using Groundhog
- The main meaning on this page is: A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America. | The aardvark. | Synonym of groundlubber
- Useful related words include: woodchuck, marmota monax, marmot.
- In the example corpus, groundhog often appears in combinations such as: groundhog day, the groundhog, like groundhog.
Context around Groundhog
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 3 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Groundhog
- In this selection, "groundhog" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, annual, official, bit, day, fred and forecast stand out and add context to how "groundhog" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit groundhog and a grim groundhog day of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "groundhog" sits close to words such as aborigines, abreu and accommodates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with groundhog
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In fact, it feels like Groundhog Day. (7 words)
A groundhog forecast: More winter or early spring? (8 words)
Just How Good Is the Groundhog’s Forecast? (8 words)
Until that happens, Australia is cursed to a grim Groundhog Day of guilt and remorse, without forgiveness, without remedy or redemption, always pressed for yet more compensation, yet more sorry fodder – and more political power, as amplified by the Voice. (40 words)
Somewhere they have a writers room full of people trying to figure out how to put together a 90 minute romance between a white woman and a groundhog and put in suggestion that they fark at the end. (38 words)
It’s a sort of 3D puzzle exploration game that is really clever and has a Groundhog Day type thing where the solar system keeps exploding and you have to slowly work out how to stop it. (37 words)
A groundhog forecast: More winter or early spring? (8 words)
In the movie ‘Groundhog Day,’ Bill Murray’s character says something like, ‘You think I’m arrogant? (17 words)
Just How Good Is the Groundhog’s Forecast? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
Only hours before Val-d’Espoir, Que., was to hold their annual Groundhog Day celebration, village officials noticed that their groundhog – Fred la Marmotte – was dead.
A groundhog forecast: More winter or early spring?
An overcast day at the West Virginia Wildlife Center in Upshur County offered no shadows to West Virginia's official groundhog.
Cammack acknowledged the 'Groundhog Day' feeling on the House floor as she nominated McCarthy for Speaker for the sixth ballot.
Groundhog Day in the Park, beginning at 8 a.m. in downtown’s Barclay Square, with activities, local artisans and craft vendors, food trucks, a fire and live entertainment.
Groundhog Days play 80s covers and are based in north Derbyshire.
However, historically, the groundhog is only about as accurate as a coin flip: 39% of the time.
I just found it 40 minutes too long and thus my concentration lapsed and it became all a bit groundhog.
In fact, it feels like Groundhog Day.
In the movie ‘Groundhog Day,’ Bill Murray’s character says something like, ‘You think I’m arrogant?
It’s a sort of 3D puzzle exploration game that is really clever and has a Groundhog Day type thing where the solar system keeps exploding and you have to slowly work out how to stop it.
Just How Good Is the Groundhog’s Forecast?
Mebane felt her life was like Groundhog Day — stuck in the same cycle over and over.
Punxsutawney’s annual event, known as Groundhog Day, is based on a German legend about a furry rodent that could predict the future.
Somewhere they have a writers room full of people trying to figure out how to put together a 90 minute romance between a white woman and a groundhog and put in suggestion that they fark at the end.
The Groundhog Day musical, based on the hit 1993 Bill Murray movie of the same name, is headed to Melbourne in January.
Then it’s Groundhog Day all over again.
Until that happens, Australia is cursed to a grim Groundhog Day of guilt and remorse, without forgiveness, without remedy or redemption, always pressed for yet more compensation, yet more sorry fodder – and more political power, as amplified by the Voice.
We’re then on to Weekend Update, where Michael Che invites on Punxsutawney Phil (Michael Longfellow in a full-body groundhog costume) to talk about the next six weeks of winter.
When German immigrants came to the United States they brought the tradition with them, but couldn’t find a hedgehog, so they adapted the tradition to the abundant groundhog.
Common combinations with groundhog
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- groundhog day 38×
- the groundhog 14×
- like groundhog 8×
- and groundhog 4×
- of groundhog 4×
- on groundhog 3×
- groundhog has 3×
- groundhog forecast 2×
- official groundhog 2×
- groundhog days 2×