Sentence examples for mew from inspiring English sources

The term mews originally referred to the royal stables in London, so called because they were built where the king's hawks were once mewed, or confined at molting (or "mew") time.

As he plays, they mew and whimper in a painful ecstasy or, as they themselves put it, they are sent.

Opening the front door is like opening the door to the cat who comes in with the morning milk, who mews in passing on his way to the beds still warm with our night's sleep, his routine so tenuously attached to ours, by a single mew and a shared roof.

There are cats draped like bunting over every horizontal surface in the house, and when they mew in concert for their cat chow and their tins of mashed fish heads, the noise is enough to wake the dead, if you'll pardon the expression.

A cat had jumped onto the windowsill outside and begun to mew, as if it knew what had occurred.

A cat will mew at the food bowl in the morning and set off on a multiple-day trek in the afternoon.

There was something a little forced in July's previous work, "Me and You and Everyone We Know" (2005), and hints of archness linger in "The Future"; now and then, we hear from Paw Paw himself, who addresses us in what must, regrettably, be called a mew-over.

You probably don't even know how to pronounce it, much less define it: MEW-ko-seel, a fluid-filled cyst that can form in your mouth.

A local boy who made good, Mr. Mieuli (pronounced MEW-lee), grew up in San Jose and ran a successful radio production company.

As Jon Mew, director of Mobile and Operations at the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), said, millions of BBC viewers now own smartphones and are "dual screening" by watching television at the same time.

"His reputation here is one of a hard-working officer, one who was very professional," Chief Mark Mew of the Anchorage police said Friday in announcing Mr. Mora-Lopez's arrest.