shrew in English

noun
1
a small mouselike insectivorous mammal with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes.
Several small mammals live in the park - genets, shrews , hedgehogs and mongooses.
2
a bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman.
Socrates was married, you know, and his wife, Xanthippe, was a shrew .

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "shrew" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "shrew", or refer to the context using the word "shrew" in the English Dictionary.

1. They placed a shrew into a social confrontation with another shrew.

2. The nagging shrew.

3. People called her shrew.

4. Middle English bishrewen bi- be- shrew wicked person shrew From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition From Middle English Beshrewen (“to curse, pervert”), equivalent to be- +‎ shrew

5. You're nothing but a shrew!

6. He found himself married a vulgar shrew.

7. He said she wanted the shrew.

8. He found himself married to a vulgar shrew.

9. And I suppose that Monica will have the manipulative shrew.

10. A tree-shrew [n -S] Medical Definition of Banxring

11. The shrew stands at the door and keeps shouting abuse.

12. Shakespeare has Abusious ("Taming of the Shrew," 1594)

13. Every man can rule a shrew but he who has her.

14. Results show that cloprostenol can be used to induce the estrus of Tree shrew and increase their reproductive rate effectively. Methods for superovulation of Tree Shrew were investigated.

15. From Middle English Beshrewen (“to curse, pervert”), equivalent to be- +‎ shrew.

16. OM:Oh, I'll make you look bad if you don't watch it, shrew!

17. The hero shrew has an armoured backbone that can withstand enormous pressure.

18. From Middle English Beshrewen ("to curse, pervert"), equivalent to be-+‎ shrew

19. In general appearance, it would have looked like a shrew or mouse".

20. She gave a masterly performance as Kate in 'The Taming of the Shrew'.

21. Shakespeare calls this type of figure an "aglet baby" in The Taming of the Shrew.

22. Abuseful was used 17c., and Shakespeare has Abusious ("Taming of the Shrew," 1594)

23. Abuseful was used 17c., and Shakespeare has Abusious ("Taming of the Shrew," 1594)

24. Synonyms for Battleax include axe, ax, halberd, hatchet, tomahawk, Battleaxe, battle-ax, shrew, virago and termagant

25. The very first mammals were small insectivores, probably very similar to this modern tree shrew. Sentencedict.com

26. The only one that could be forgiven for Beshrewing the cat would by the eponymous shrew himself

27. Her hat was an aggressively red felt and she peered out from under its big brim like a shrew ready to attack.

28. The "Shrew Beshrewed" did well, all the time Chislet Colliery was operating but in 1969 the pit was deemed uneconomic and closed

29. A 2009 study, which coined the term "tree shrew lavatories", determined between 57 and 100% of the plant's foliar nitrogen uptake comes from the faeces of tree shrews.

30. As nouns the difference between Banxring and tana is that Banxring is (label) an east indian insectivorous mammal of the genus tupaia while tana is the Banxring or tree shrew.

31. One vermivore that may feed exclusively on worms is Paucidentomys vermidax, a rodent species of a type commonly known as shrew rats which was discovered in 2011 in Indonesia.

32. Bargle was a male shrew who temporarily acted as Log-a-Log while Redwall Abbey was beseiged by Marlfoxes after the murder of the previous Log-a-Log by Fenno

33. The discovery of the species was announced in January 2008; only 15 species of elephant shrew were known until then, and the last discovery was made more than 120 years ago.

34. It has been recorded as taking mudskippers, and in west Africa, one specimen had eaten a Gifford's giant shrew, an insectivore with a smell so noxious, most other snakes would not touch it.

35. The result shows that the control effect of the Chlorophacinone bait against the shrew is good, coming up to 85%, by using tracking determinations, while that against the rodents is only 6%.

36. 'A Mad-Cap Ruffian and a Swearing Jack': Braggart Courtship from Miles Gloriosus to The Taming of the Shrew TIME for The Apprentice to retire after its recent array of lying Braggarts and the deluded

37. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2,[1] […] he took the bride about the neck, And kiss’d her lips with such a Clamorous smack That at the parting all the church did echo

38. 1594, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew: Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less Than three great Argosies, besides two galliasses, And twelve tight galleys; these I will assure her, And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next

39. In his 2000 edition of the play for the Oxford Shakespeare, however, Stanley Wells argues there are echoes of Leir in plays as Chronologically wide-ranging as The Taming of the Shrew, Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, suggesting Shakespeare was …

40. Advisability SIPO kuoro hoppa hage laughter abounds in the mouth of fools tverna (f.) scattered file Drehzahlregelung expert ennakkokorvaus Zufall flatcar anteversion baggage aduce(a rodi) common shrew civil twilight patata verder (prep.) sense, infer deputy inspector stinking shumochi patter respeito moeras, kwelder muistelmat, muistelmateos

41. Animals: AARDVARK, ALPACA, AMADAVAT or Avadavat (Indian song bird), BLACK MAMBA (snake), CARACAL (lynx), CARACARA (vulture-like bird), MATAMATA (a turtle), HELLBENDER (salamander), LEVERET (young hare), TREECREEPER (bird), TREE SHREW, INDRIS (a lemurine animal), SISKIN (bird), KOODOO or COODOO (antelope), MOORCOCK (bird), POTOROO (kangaroo-rat), …

42. November 28, 2012 in Mammals, Trees, Uncategorized Tags: animals, arborial, babies, Banxring, closest, cute, mammal, primate, relative, Scandentia, tree, treeshrew Common Tree Shrew (Tupaia glis) According to contemporary taxonomy, the primates (whom I haven’t yet written about because they are so near and dear) are closely related to two

43. *Bowdlerize, also BrE & AusE *bowdlerise*.* To censor or expurgate a text after the style of Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), editor of an edition of Shakespeare [1]'s plays from which explicit sexual references and avowedly vulgar elements were removed: ‘When The Taming of the Shrew was staged in

44. The yellow-footed Antechinus (Antechinus flavipes), also known as the mardo, is a shrew-like marsupial found in Australia.One notable feature of the species is its sexual behavior.The male yellow-footed Antechinus engages in such frenzied mating that its immune system becomes compromised, resulting in stress related death before it is one year old.