The Indians in hunting them employ the grison (Galictis vittata), a member of the weasel family, which is trained to enter the crevices of the rocks where the chinchillas lie concealed during the day.
That chinchillas have not under such circumstances become rare, if not extinct, is owing to their extraordinary fecundity, the female usually producing five or six young twice a year.
Chinchillas live in burrows, and these subterranean dwellings undermine the ground in some parts of the Chilean Andes to such an extent as to cause danger to travellers on horseback.
These latter were again crossed with other chinchillas (which had also been crossed with silver-greys), and from this complicated cross Himalayan rabbits were raised.
Now, the writer above referred to had a breed of chinchillas which had been crossed with the common black rabbit, and their offspring were either blacks or chinchillas.
He had a breed of chinchillas which had been crossed with the common black rabbit, and their offspring were either blacks or chinchillas.
Mrs. Locke's chinchillas are the finest ones in this country.
She was bred to Lord Argent, one of the three celebrated stud chinchillas in England.
Supper over, all the travellers would have retired to rest; but the vaquero, having announced that he was going out to set snares for the chinchillas and viscachas, Leon could not rest, but asked permission to accompany him.
There are several species of each, and with the chinchillas and viscachas already described, they occupy the place in those regions that the hares and rabbits do in northern climates.
Also, he had quite made up his mind that she of the chinchillas was bound for the Austins'.
The young lady of the chinchillas had already left the car, followed by her maid, before he stepped into the aisle ready for departure.
It looks to me as if the style was veering off fromchinchillas already.
It ain't the right air for my lungs, and when you got to talking about chinchillas going out of fashion, I seen it wasn't worth the risk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chinchillas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
