Sentence examples for a shrew from inspiring English sources

"Coarse woman, a shrew".

"I raged like a shrew," she remembered.

Distant ancestors the size of a shrew.

A shrew has lots of bony parts.

This is a very modern reading of a shrew.

Another recounts slaying a shrew in the bathtub.

In his Natural History of Shelbourne (1789), Gilbert White describes a shrew found in this way.

Call a shrew a rodent and your soricid story is ruined.

Former Van Houten student Phil Gingerich was part of a University of Michigan team that discovered the fossilized jaws and 13 teeth of a shrew-like insect eater.

Ben Close and Brett Pitman were on target at New Meadow to keep Pompey within sight of second-placed Barnsley against a Shrews side just a point clear of the bottom four.

The branching of the four remaining genera (Geogale, Oryzorictes, Limnogale and Microgale), which share a shrew-like appearance and a small size, remains more open.