The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
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Examples for "mew "
Examples for "mew "
1 I lie in bed waiting for the next mew , all worked up.
2 The kitten stirred in her hands and let out a weak mew .
3 A loud mew from the backseat startled me out of my thoughts.
4 At ten precisely it was heard to mew and was immediately admitted.
5 But it looks pretty large for a kitten, and it doesn't mew .
1 Upon the music came the sudden unearthly miaow of a cat.
2 A cat vibratoed a miaow and rubbed itself against his legs.
3 Vets say he has a 80 per cent chance of being able to miaow again.
4 She opened her mouth in a silent miaow ; her flashing incisors didn't look too romantic.
5 There was quite a miaow factor at court.
1 The beast looked at us and gave so hopeless a miau that I shuddered.
2 Because it can say only one single word, and that a noise such as a cat makes when it says " miau . "
3 Toward midnight he was about to poke his fire, and as he was blowing it, something cried suddenly from one cornier, Au, miau !
4 Plastered flat against the tree trunk, some nine feet above the ground, he miaued dolefully.
5 The breakfast over, the guests bow-wowed and miaued their thanks, and were dismissed to their morning nap.
1 The boys and girls, in turn, come to the other side of the door and call out " miaou . "
2 And the mouse increased till it became a cat and said, Miaou !
3 At the sound of his voice the cat gave a loud " Miaou ! "
1 The startled animal uttered a ' miaul ' of alarm and darted back again, making a horrible rustling.
2 And directly there were five Black Cats spitting and miauling .
3 He concluded by miauling 'Amalia' in the triumph of contempt.
4 Let him try his hoarse miauling in all possible keys!
5 But there's no organization-it'sonly blind kittens miauling .
1 Mister let out a harsh, worried meow , and I froze in place.
2 She wriggled her way down the narrow, womblike passageway toward Knot's meow .
3 No answering meow and no furry white face appearing around a corner.
4 Her frustration came out in the form of a plaintive meow .
5 She heard a meow ahead and, relieved, entered the next chamber.
6 Lizzie rolled her eyes, but before she could answer Jeth heard a meow .
7 Even Bevvie-on-the-levee thought he was the cat's meow , and why not?
8 Cats don't meow at each other, they only meow at us.
9 The cat gave a noncomittal meow and the lady had to hang up.
10 Just hear how they meow and bark messages to one another.
11 Rue rumbled an agreeing cat noise -half purr, half meow .
12 Another meow sounded as the flame on the candle finally flared to life.
13 A friend to all fae, a blood bond that meow takes not lightly.
14 There was a meow of agony-butit was the last one!
15 Once he heard a cat meow , away back at the rear of the lot.
16 Pumpkin, nestled in the Major's arms, gave a contented meow .
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