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Example Sentences
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My cats, Cutie and Socks — one’s a tabby and the other is a tuxedo cat — wake me up by mewing and walking on me.
From Los Angeles Times
The elderly vegetable lady three stores down told me that the cat had mewed at her door the night of our arrest and she had taken him in.
From Literature
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Gradually he became aware of a faint mewing sound coming from the other side of the hill.
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Right on cue, a single orange cat showed up and mewed.
From Literature
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Leftovers to eat were surely better than nothing, but for a whole family to wait in line for scraps, like stray cats mewing at the kitchen door?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.