“Today I did washing at home in my washing machine, on the off-chance that it'd just been playing possum, and lo and behold, it worked just fine.”

“Many of these animals require intensive care, which at times has meant Megan has had a young bird or possum joey with her at work.”

“After a retrospective release the band finally relented after 28 years of playing possum.”

“The common species of the United States, Didelphis virginiana, is predominantly referred to as opossum.”

“A scrawny opossum foraged along the road, scampering toward the woods when I tried to take its picture.”

“We still got an opossum, a red kangaroo, a Bennett wallaby, too, and millipedes, and a kookaburra, whatever that is.”

“A farmer looking through the fields before harvesting his crop sees rabbits, opossums, mice, rats, birds, foxes, skunks and snakes.”

“Don't put out any more seed than can be eaten by the birds by nightfall, especially where raccoons, opossums, deer, or rodents are a problem.”

“Gray squirrels, opossums, and box turtles live in a forest of guiana-plums, milkbarks, and inkwoods.”

“Several of the early timber splitters regularly hunted kangaroos or possums to solve this problem.”

“Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.”

“There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct.”