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

Often, but not always, mew occurs while the bird walks forward.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2019

About five feet in front of my kayak, the little beaver crawled up into the mud, and perched there, letting out a darling, but slightly heartbreaking mew.

From New York Times • May 31, 2014

And Lyra stirred and in her sleep uttered a little whimpering mew, which Alice quickly muffled.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman