possum in English

noun
1
an opossum.
A favourite southern dish is possum and taters: the opossum is parboiled, then salted and peppered and roasted in a pan with peeled, roasted sweet potatoes.
2
a tree-dwelling Australasian marsupial that typically has a prehensile tail.
It is what we, as carers of koalas, birds, possums , macropods (wallabies, kangaroos etc.) and other wildlife carers are trained to do.

Use "possum" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "possum" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "possum", or refer to the context using the word "possum" in the English Dictionary.

1. Possum or pretend to sleep.

2. You must be possum.

3. The baboon-oceroses, the orangu-possum!

4. I know you were only possum.

5. Gonna check on that possum.

6. I know you were only playing possum.

7. Playing possum is what we do.

8. Oiled frogs, fattened on possum maggots.

9. He escaped by coming possum over his enemy.

10. Buried the gun, possum, be captured next captive.

11. If we don't, they will play possum.

12. Abidan Allseed A suburban possum in a Florida garden

13. Bob played possum when the teacher looked around.

14. A possum laid down the bearded iris field.

15. The students played possum when the teacher looked around.

16. Glover eased back in his chair and played possum.

17. I mean, when I was coming up, it was just " possum. "

18. The dog killed a possum right in front of us.

19. The boys possum when asked who had broken the window.

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21. Don' t be ridiculous.I' m not a mammoth. I' m a possum

22. When the principal asked who had broken the vase, Tom played possum.

23. This morning I woke up a possum and now I'm a mammoth.

24. If this fails to deter the enemy, the possum promptly drops dead.

25. The rabbit played possum under the bushes, hoping the hunter would not see him.

26. Sensing that his life was in jeopardy, the hunter played possum until the irate lion disappeared.

27. Johnny seemed to be fully asleep, but his mother knew that he was playing possum.

28. In Austrlia, the possum commonly hides up a gum tree when it is being chased.

29. Welcome to The CliffsThe Cliffs Resort is a gated residential community perched 200 feet above beautiful Possum Kingdom Lake

30. Aeronomy The PoSSUM Aeronomy Program provides a practical education for the professional interested in upper-atmospheric research from research aircraft, high …

31. Acrobates pygmaeus (Shaw, 1794) is a gliding possum commonly known as the feather-tailed glider or the narrow-toed feathertail glider

32. The ice may be thin, but it' s strong enough to hold a ten- ton mammoth and a nine- ton possum

33. The Bogong moth is a staple food and major source of protein for several native animals including the endangered Pygmy Possum.(Supplied)Different methods …

34. Banksia serrata ‘Pygmy Possum’, is a naturally occurring, dwarf, coastal Banksia, growing only .5m tall and 2.5m across with upright 12cm tall greyish yellow flowers

35. Eugene Allen Possum Borak, Jr Eugene was born August 30, 1959 in Rosenberg, Texas and died peacefully on January 17, 2021 after a brief illness

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40. Boondoggle contains biting commentary of Humans where Pogo the Possum once said of our destroying the environment, "Yep son we have met the enemy and he is us."

41. Okay, we had to include something from Eliot’s Ailurophilic 1939 work Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (the inspiration for Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s musical, Cats; ‘Old Possum’ was Ezra Pound’s nickname for Eliot)

42. Acrobates pygmaeus is a gliding possum commonly known as the feather-tailed glider or the narrow-toed feathertail glider.It is the world’s smallest mammal capable of gliding flight and is also one of the smallest marsupials

43. ‘The male Antechinus can mate for 12 hours at a time.’ More example sentences ‘In the daytime he sometimes found a tiny possum curled up asleep in the cutlery drawer or in a bowl on the kitchen shelf, or he glimpsed an Antechinus by the door.’

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