Shrew Sentence Examples

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  • Among the Insectivora, the alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is restricted to the Alps.

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  • The old shrew has never allowed me egress to her premises.

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  • I just said I wasn't sharing anything with that Boston shrew, I didn't say I was quitting the caper.

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  • Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew has been influenced in several respects (including the names Tranio and Grumio) by the Mostellaria.

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  • Shrews are notoriously small, ( the pygmy white-toothed shrew is the smallest extant mammal weighing a mere 2-3 grams at adult weight).

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  • Among animals peculiar to the forest regions are a tiger-cat about the size of a leopard, the honey badger or black Ituri ratel and the elephant shrew.

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  • The Life of Mammals describes and illustrates the remarkable diversity of mammals from the giant blue whale to the miniscule pigmy shrew.

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  • Other smaller mammals include muskrat Ondatra zibethicus, cottontail rabbit Sylvilagus floridanus, and a number of mice, mole and shrew species.

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  • Pygmy shrew were found at some of the reptile survey sites!

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  • Big dry passages, lots of bats and spiders, we even saw a shrew in the cave.

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  • Britain's tiny, secretive water shrew leaves few signs and is under threat through habitat loss and pollution.

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  • Also first mammal casualty of the year - a common shrew brought in by the cat.

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  • There are nearly 5,000 species of mammals the smallest shrew weighing only 1.75 grams, the largest whale up to 140 tons.

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  • Herefordshire water shrew survey The water shrew survey The water shrew is Herefordshire's, and Britain's, least known land mammal.

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  • In common with other shrew species, water shrew species, water shrews are protected under Schedule 6 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981 ).

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  • The mammal survey showed that wood mice live at Jumping Downs and Pygmy shrew were found at some of the reptile survey sites!

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  • The mammal survey showed that wood mice live at Jumping Downs and pygmy shrew were found at some of the reptile survey sites !

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  • Britain 's tiny, secretive water shrew leaves few signs and is under threat through habitat loss and pollution.

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  • However, being heavily influenced by shrew people 4000 years ago brought a new dimension of leisure.

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  • Herefordshire water shrew survey The water shrew is Herefordshire 's, and Britain 's, least known land mammal.

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  • In common with other shrew species, water shrews are protected under Schedule 6 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981).

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  • Even if you left your job because your old boss was a shrew and you hated her, you do not want to provide this answer in an interview.

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  • His temper and life seem to have been remarkably free from all that was jarring, jealous and fretful; unless, indeed, we are to accept as true the account of his wife's character which represents her as having been no fit mate for him, but an incorrigible shrew and skinflint.

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  • Moles, which are unknown in the Indian peninsula, abound in the forest regions of the eastern Himalayas at a moderate altitude, and shrews of several species are found almost everywhere; amongst them are two very remarkable forms of water shrew, one of which, however, Nectogale, is probably Tibetan rather than Himalayan.

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  • The human flea is considerably exceeded in size by certain other species found upon much smaller hosts; thus the European Hystrichopsylla talpae, a parasite of the mole, shrew and other small mammals, attains a length of 5z millimetres; another large species infests the Indian porcupine.

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