The mongooses attacked the rats, cleaned them out, multiplied, and then looked about for more worlds to conquer.
Espeut conceived the idea that it would be a good thing to introduce mongooses to the rats of Barbadoes and Jamaica that were pestering the cane-fields to an annoying extent.
Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for the mongooses are light sleepers.
Many people keep tame mongooses in their houses just as we keep cats, knowing that if a snake should find its way indoors they are sure to find it and kill it.
So in the year 1871, when these animals swarmed in some of the West Indian Islands to such an extent that it was feared that the sugar-cane plantations would be wholly destroyed by them, nine mongooses were set free in Jamaica.
Unfortunately, however, the mongooses soon found out that fowls and chickens were even nicer than rats, and began to visit the hen-roosts at night.
So mongooses were turned down in other islands, with equally satisfactory results.
At least sixteen kinds of mongooses are found in different parts of the world, but we shall only be able to tell you about two.
But in wild Africa a nap is not healthy; so I drowsily watched the mongooses that had again come out of seclusion, and the monkeys, and the birds.
Two bush bucks plunged into the thicket as we approached, and fifteen or twenty mongooses sat up as straight and stiff as so many picket pins the better to see us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mongooses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
