Sentence examples for shrew from inspiring English sources

Katharina, the shrew of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

Private secretary to the prime minister, 1983-1990 You can argue about whether Margaret Thatcher was our greatest peacetime prime minister of the last century – my own view – or a partisan, narrow-minded shrew, which would seem to be the opinion of many Guardian readers.

"They make her look like an obsessed, vindictive shrew," Ford says.

Contrary to our figures, the poor shrew does not have to wait 25 weeks to produce young; we meant 25 days.

They deftly discussed the double standards of sexism (Palin "upset" to be thought of as sexy, Clinton upset that she was considered a harpy, a shrew and a boner-shrinker) and made it obvious that it didn't matter if any ol' woman made it to the White House, but rather the right woman.

Mr Yang later said "shrew" would be a better English translation.

And it is all, needless to say, a total farce.Carolyn is actually a robotic and judgmental shrew.

The piebald shrew (genus Diplomesodon) is white with gray along the head and back.

The giant otter shrew has a vertically flat, finely furred tail; the Ruwenzori's is round with stiff hairs forming keels on the upper and lower surfaces; and that of the Nimba otter shrew is simply round.

Chasing after dinosaurs is really a quest to fill in part of our own backstory, not least of all because our own fuzzy, shrew-like ancestors scurried under their feet for over 160 million years.

Short-tailed opossum (genus Monodelphis), any of more than 20 species of small, mouse- and shrew-sized, insectivorous and carnivorous, terrestrial opossums (family Didelphidae, subfamily Didelphinae, tribe Marmosini).