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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For decades the road remained a quiet spot for armadillo , quail, and gopher.
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He must distinguish snakes from eels, tortoises from armadillos, on the basis of the bones presented to him.
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I can not look at another zebra, another wildebeest, and certainly no more armadillos!
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I remember him in Zoo Quest bringing down a fleeing armadillo with a rugby tackle.
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Several years ago there was a fine armadillo whose body consisted of automobile tires of various sizes.
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So why are some fellow Republicans acting as if Bush were a rabid armadillo ?
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The most impressive of all the armadillo species, when responding to attack, is the three-banded.
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The road yaws out in front of us, and it is clear that yet another armadillo has been chucked overboard.