Sentence examples for shrew in from inspiring English sources

Nancy Anderson and Michael Berresse are both making the crossing to London, and so is Marin Mazzie, who greatly impressed the New York critics with her playing of Cole Porter's counterpart of the shrew in "The Taming of the Shrew," Shakespeare's unruly Katherina.

Certainly she's no shrew in need of taming.

Another recounts slaying a shrew in the bathtub.

She is a villain yet keeps her character real: a shrew in a pinny.

Between 1989 and 1993, Mr. Forrester wrote nearly 200 columns for the weekly local newspaper in his hometown, most of which mused on topics as innocuous as Mother's Day, ice cream or the time Mr. Forrester was forced to kill a shrew in his bathtub.

Driven by the approaching winter it will soon be looking for permanent lodgings alongside us, and I'll begin to find this mouse and others – including the diminutive shrew – in the fringes of the house and outbuildings, the smokehouse a perennial favourite.

It's a light comic gloss of emerging pop culture stereotypes: mobsters with hearts of gold and psychobabbling shrews in a gay-friendly environment.

One Christmas, when home from university, every few hours I was testing the food decisions of common shrews in a Perspex choice chamber I'd built, with nine compartments containing earthworms, crickets, mincemeat and so on.

Uncut, control sites had higher relative abundances than did riparian sites of masked shrews in 1996 and of smokey shrews in 1997.

The 20-year-old striker scored three goals in nine appearances since joining the Shrews in October.

The 19-year-old defender joined the Shrews in November and has made nine appearances for the League Two outfit.