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Meanings of shrew in English
Portuguese
musaranho Catalan
mussaranya Usage of shrew in English
1
Let them take that shrew of a wife, too! Baron Poll bellowed.
2
A sharp nose has been considered the visible mark of a shrew.
3
I've got some more crickets for the Etruscan shrew, the Beefeater called.
4
You remember I did my master's thesis on rock shrew cell differentiation?
5
His wife, Kate, is called a shrew on account of her ill-temper.
6
Dangerous, unscrupulous and cruel, I thought; a man-woman, a shrew, a termagant!
7
She has thrown me into a perfect sweat, the cursed old shrew!
8
Each shrew-like animal along our forward walk is now followed by her daughter.
9
She is the fiercest shrew in England, as she is the greatest beauty.
10
Is a noseless shrew going to tell us what to think?
11
Tree shrew PDAC possesses the main histological and molecular features of human PDAC.
12
Two hours without a meal and a shrew is in a bad way.
13
It's much easier to focus on an elephant rather than a pygmy shrew.
14
A shrew mouse, Sorex tenuis; supposed to be peculiar to Timor.
15
The hideous glance which the old shrew had given me pursued me everywhere.
16
Inside of ten minutes, I'd transformed the woman from suspicious shrew to co-conspirator.
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Shrew across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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