Sentence examples for a gopher from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a gopher" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small burrowing rodent or informally to describe someone who runs errands or does menial tasks for others.
Example: "He was always the gopher in the office, fetching coffee and running errands for the team."
Alternatives: "an errand runner" or "a gofer."

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What am I, a gopher?

I should have been a Gopher.

We spotted a gopher tortoise and a lethargic armadillo.

"Lemon, kumquat, pomegranate, figs, cauliflower, lettuce, peppers, and looks like I also have a gopher".

Then, suddenly, a great blue heron swooped down to grab a gopher.

"The enemy is like a gopher: you don't see him, but you know he's there," says Khorvat.

Within a minute he's on his stomach in our backyard, his arm buried to the shoulder in a gopher tunnel.

So I am proud to tell everyone that next year I will be a Gopher at the University of Minnesota.

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And whether he is playing a gopher-killing buffoon (Caddyshack) or an emotionally immobile "ageing Don Juan" (Broken Flowers) Murray remains inextricably himself.

The architecture of the transit hall is to provide an above-ground landmark that will help travelers find what is now a gopher-hole collection of subway entrances.

It was supported not only by a Gopher-like text-only browser that still exists, Lynx [4], but by browsers that could handle images and other multimedia information as well.

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