Examples of 'shrew' in a sentence

Meaning of "shrew"

shrew (noun) - a small insectivorous mammal known for its aggressive behavior, often used in metaphoric expressions to describe a bad-tempered or quarrelsome person
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  • Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha).
  • Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha).
  • An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
  • To beshrew; to curse.

How to use "shrew" in a sentence

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A real shrew works in our creative department.
There is now a dead shrew on our doorstep.
That shrew will make a good wife.
A moment of silence for the dirt shrew.
That shrew is fixing to get crazy today.
I am not the nag and the shrew.
It is a large shrew with a strong musk smell.
I have been acting like such a shrew to you.
Be shrew the witch with venomous white.
Everyone told me what a catty shrew you were.
That shrew been going around alone without her.
A mouse will hold a shrew and a vole.
A shrew lives life in the fast lane.
Elisabeth switched roles from shrew to nurse.
If that boring shrew is even in a book club.

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Just a minor encounter with the shrew.
The old shrew is human after all.
So they get everything the shrew eats.
The water shrew can indeed swim.
Other common names include tenebrous shrew.
Mole and shrew tunnelled through the ground.
I have never even seen a shrew before.
From your shrew reviling cease.
It is the first hantavirus to be isolated from a shrew.
The shrew should wear a harness.
Moisture determines the abundance of this shrew.
The forest shrew feeds on both these slugs.
The largest ratio found is in the shrew.
Mole and shrew tunnelled through the grounds.
You will look like a vindictive shrew.
An arrogant shrew with a worthless husband.
Finally reclaiming my manhood from my shrew of a girlfriend.
An elephant shrew is not much bigger than a hamster.
Isaburo is in a loveless marriage with a shrew of a woman.
Who tames the shrew as part of a grand plan.
Especially for something as tiny as a water shrew.
Night is no time for a tree shrew to be up and about.
This is a supreme directive from the shrew.
The phylogeny of the dwarf shrew is very controversial.
Our smallest mammal is the pygmy shrew.
Something like a shrew was the ancestor of all the mammals.
Wanting us to be a family does not make me a shrew.
She was not always the shrew she is now.
Macroscelides micus is the smallest known elephant shrew.
And with this shrew bot.
That shrew is behind you.
I do not want to go home to that shrew.
I am a shrew who smiles and coldly aims and shoots.
I would like to tame your shrew.
That shrew been going around alone.

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