mew

Example Sentences

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No, I didn’t have leg lengthening surgery, take peptides or even mew, the basic looksmaxxing exercise of pushing your tongue against the roof of your mouth to strengthen your jaw muscles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Short-billed gulls, known as mew gulls until 2021, are omnivorous and highly adaptable.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

On one occasion, a red-tailed hawk named Kean was found to be sitting on top of and crushing other birds in the mew, a large birdhouse designed to hold several raptors.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022

It often is preceded by the mew call and uttered as a warning to intruders: “Get out now, or you’ll be attacked!”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2019

She’d hang around and mew at the door.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood