How to Use shrew in a Sentence

shrew

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  • Rip Van Winkle went off into the mountains to escape his wife, a shrew who made his life miserable.
  • The cub had pulled the shrew out of the sand and had been knocking it around like a ball.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The cast of the show includes Kate (the shrew), played by Amanda Stevens.
    — Rick Mauch, star-telegram.com, 2 May 2017
  • The shrew-rat is just a few inches long, with small eyes, large ears, and a soft coat.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2012
  • In eastern China, the Langya virus may have jumped from the white-toothed shrew to humans.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Bill Clinton got to come out looking like a cool guy, Hillary looked like a shrew.
    — ELLE, 11 Apr. 2022
  • In the case of the pygmy shrew, the only scraps the researchers found after three days were inedible fur, bone and skin.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
  • No one likes to get dumped, but Sarah is no shrew, and certainly not a villain.
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Ulmer identified it as a type of shrew in his field notes.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But the fourth bucket contains a prize: a tiny, dark-gray shrew, partly covered by leaves and twigs.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The Nogahabara is also home to the sandy tiger beetle and the Alaska tiny shrew, which are both found almost nowhere else in the state.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Exactly how a shrew shrinks its brain is still something of a head-scratcher.
    — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The whale is a hundred million times bigger than a shrew, but its heart rate is just a hundred times slower.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
  • Some creatures — like mice, shrews, and voles — spend most of their time under the snow, in subnivean tunnels in the layer between the ground and the snowpack.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Rodents: Mice, rats, shrews, chipmunks, and squirrels will eat most of the ticks that latch onto them and, in some cases, hunt them down.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
  • As new vegetation takes root, deer mice, voles, shrews, and chipmunks move in for the harvest.
    — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • One of the earliest mammals was the mouse-sized Morganucodon, which looked something like a shrew.
    — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Overall, the shrews in the study reduced their body mass by about 18 percent from July to February.
    — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
  • That difference of 40 degrees is significant in the life of voles and shrews and insects and plants.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The shrew could survive on insects, burrow away from the heat, and had fur to warm itself during the freezing decade that followed.
    — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 9 Apr. 2021
  • World War II is a way to tame a shrew and a bully and to pair off adorable couples of multiple generations.
    — Mary Pols, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The idea behind these projects tends to follow a formula: this woman wasn’t always a monster, a harpy, a shrew.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Jamie Boring, of the Downtown Partnership, found a shrew colony hunkered down under a wooden board by the fence.
    — Devin Kelly, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • There is a version of this kind of story where Cassidy is a shrew and the audience knows Sean would be better off without her.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023
  • But what about the Nimba otter shrew, the Cuban greater funnel-eared bat or other threatened yet obscure species?
    — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
  • An angry woman is no more than a hysteric, a shrew, a person to be punished.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 22 Nov. 2023
  • One of the new species is a flightless behemoth, weighing as much as a shrew, and carries big spines for defense on its thorax.
    — Piotr Naskrecki, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • How well many of us know the plight of Sen Kamala H. Assertive women are hysterical shrews.
    — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 14 June 2017
  • This shrew-like animal is one of the very few venomous mammals that exist today.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Though married to a terrible shrew, a man tries to figure out a way to be with his childhood sweetheart, who has just moved back into town.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019

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