shrew

Example Sentences

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Animals, like pocket gophers, deer mice, shrews, voles, and other small mammals, were still in their winter burrows.

From Literature

The bus driver was a small shrew who didn’t bother much with discipline, as he was too busy trying to see far enough over the steering wheel to drive without killing anything.

From Literature

Small animals like water voles and shrews, which live in burrows, can survive fast-moving fires but their habitats and the food they rely on are destroyed.

From BBC

In one recent animal study, tree shrews were made to look at a digital device.

From Salon

The team checked the traps about every two hours for three days and four nights because the shrews die if they don’t eat every few hours, making them difficult to capture alive and photograph.

From Los Angeles Times