How do you use Possums in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Possums meaning
plural of possum
Using Possums
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of possum
- In the example corpus, possums often appears in combinations such as: possums and, possums are, possums in.
Context around Possums
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Possums
- In this selection, "possums" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dead, baby, honey, rats, pregnancy and swamp stand out and add context to how "possums" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include apparently these possums are and but inviting possums in to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "possums" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with possums
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Searching for possums at Mount Hypipamee National Park. (8 words)
We are all but inviting possums in to live with us. (11 words)
Every day, she makes sure the possums are given a sweet treat. (12 words)
They point to reports that children have dressed up dead possums or drowned baby possums in buckets of water during school hunting fund-raisers as evidence that the events desensitize young people to violence. (34 words)
It found that more squirrel gliders and possums crossed the road after they installed the bridges, and breeding pairs from opposite sides of the road were able to find each other for a rendezvous. (34 words)
Who would dare argue that these giant mollusks of the Pacific coast that dwell in coastal coniferous forests from Alaska to California are less compelling than raccoons, possums or treefrogs? (30 words)
Who would dare argue that these giant mollusks of the Pacific coast that dwell in coastal coniferous forests from Alaska to California are less compelling than raccoons, possums or treefrogs? (30 words)
Not everyone is a fan of electric cars, but apparently these possums are! (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
They point to reports that children have dressed up dead possums or drowned baby possums in buckets of water during school hunting fund-raisers as evidence that the events desensitize young people to violence.
For example, honey possums and potoroos can “afford” to have longer faces than their larger relatives because they eat softer foods.
In Aotearoa New Zealand, native forest bird species are under threat from introduced mammal predators such as possums, rats and stoats.
Not everyone is a fan of electric cars, but apparently these possums are!
While says there is no scheduled air date for Goldberg's episode, claims she'll be appearing in tonight's new episode, "Possums, Pregnancy and Patriarchy" as Ms. Glen.
Along with aquatic species, some terrestrial species were detected such as possums, swamp wallabies, grey-headed flying fox, aquatic birds like cormorants, wood ducks and dusky moorhens.
Besnoitiosis, a parasitic protozoan infection common amongst possums, results in visible white nodules (cysts) around the mouth, ears and eyes, in addition to all of the vital organs.
Every day, she makes sure the possums are given a sweet treat.
However, seven other species crashed: dunnarts, woylies, southern brown bandicoots, western ringtail possums, bush rats, brush-tailed phascogales and western brush wallabies.
It found that more squirrel gliders and possums crossed the road after they installed the bridges, and breeding pairs from opposite sides of the road were able to find each other for a rendezvous.
Possums and raccoons will gladly finish the meal left for them outside the cat door.
Who would dare argue that these giant mollusks of the Pacific coast that dwell in coastal coniferous forests from Alaska to California are less compelling than raccoons, possums or treefrogs?
Power says: “Maybe the possums are getting closer to our organisms, but also they’re solitary species.
Red mistleton /Peraxilla tetrapetala is an endemic parasitic plant, and browsed on by possums.
While the R.I. Baker students made the XL version for larger kangaroo joeys, there is also a need for rescue pouches for other critters including wallabies, possums and koalas.
Her plan was to make extracts of plants that possums avoided to see if these could be sprayed on other plants as a deterrent.
Searching for possums at Mount Hypipamee National Park.
We are all but inviting possums in to live with us.
Who knows, we could all be snuggling with our domesticated possums right now.
Female animal characters were more likely to be shown as chickens or possums than they were lions or bears.
Common combinations with possums
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- possums and 5×
- possums are 4×
- possums in 3×
- possums or 2×
- baby possums 2×
- as possums 2×
- the possums 2×
- gliding possums 2×