badger-like

Three claps and a decree for silence, Tobin snuffles badger-like in the back.

schoolyard soccer James Claffey 2011

Palaeontologist Christian Sidor of the University of Washington thinks the den belonged to Thrinaxodon, a small badger-like reptile closely related to mammals.

Pre-dinosaur era burrow discovered in Antarctica « Isegoria 2008

One of the stories, called "A Square Egg," quickly turns from describing "badger-like" life in the trenches to observing the ad hoc social arrangements at a "shell-nibbled" estaminet, or ersatz bar, near the front lines.

The Munro Doctrine of Humor 2008

Then he stuffed his mouth full of onion and feta cheese, mechanically wiping his fingers off on the white damask tablecloth, all the while studying Arafat with his shifting, badger-like eyes.

Think Progress » Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong 2006

Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.

THE NEWS BLOG 2003

Robert Grant Burns was head-and-shoulders under the car, digging badger-like with his paws to clear the front axle, and coming up now and then to wipe the perspiration from his eyes and puff the purple out of his complexion.

Jean of the Lazy A 1915

Robert Grant Burns was head-and-shoulders under the car, digging badger-like with his paws to clear the front axle, and coming up now and then to wipe the perspiration from his eyes and puff the purple out of his complexion.

Jean of the Lazy A B. M. Bower 1905

The principal winked his badger-like eyes and gazed at me.

Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

I am more like a badger than like one of them; and indeed I find the image of my fate and my condition in a badger-like creature close at hand.

Aftermath James Lane Allen 1887

Then, while I was furiously rubbing and scratching it, feeling a badger-like disposition to gnaw it off, my left arm was pierced with red-hot needles.

The Purple Land 1881