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Example sentences for "shrew"

Lexicographically close words:
shred; shredded; shredding; shreddy; shreds; shrewd; shrewde; shrewder; shrewdest; shrewdly
  1. By this reckning he is more shrew than she Gru.

  2. Shrew me If I would loose it for a Reuenew, Of any Kings in Europe.

  3. Goe girle, I cannot blame thee now to weepe, For such an iniurie would vexe a very saint, Much more a shrew of impatient humour.

  4. Good Lord, you vse this dalliance to excuse Your breach of promise to the Porpentine, I should haue chid you for not bringing it, But like a shrew you first begin to brawle Mar.

  5. Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported Gru.

  6. Now in good sadnesse sonne Petruchio, I thinke thou hast the veriest shrew of all Petr.

  7. I'll be hanged if I knew you were a shrew when I married you!

  8. Pretty lies you've been telling of me--you and your shrew of a mother.

  9. He caught the angry shrew by the neck, bit him mercilessly, shook him limp, trod him under foot, and raced on.

  10. The eyes of the crow, impish and malevolent, were fixed, not upon him, but upon a small shrew close at his side.

  11. The outraged shrew put up a bitter fight, but in vain.

  12. The Common Shrew is a pretty little creature, remarkable for its square tail, which is about two-thirds as long as the body.

  13. The Moles, on the other hand, find their subsistence deep in the soil, and live entirely under the ground; while the Desmans, and some species of the Shrew Mice live in or near the water.

  14. The truth seems to be that the Shrew has a strong and peculiar odor, which is very repugnant to Cats; they drive away and kill the Shrew Mouse, but never eat it.

  15. The Water-shrew frequents fresh, clear streams and ponds, constructing in their banks long winding burrows, terminating in a chamber lined with moss and grass.

  16. But see," he added, "this poor shrew begins a little to revive.

  17. Selden, take me this old shrew softly to the nearest elm, and hang me him tenderly by the neck, where I may see him at my riding.

  18. Nay, the poor shrew heard the words, and the heart misgave her in her oak-tree ribs.

  19. The Taming of the Shrew is the only play, except Henry VI.

  20. I do not find so much genius in the Taming of the Shrew as in Love’s Labour Lost; but, as an entire play, it is much more complete.

  21. The poor man was in despair, for he had never meant to commit a murder--he only wanted to prevent the old shrew from screaming.

  22. The species of the shrew genus are not all so exceedingly diminutive, as some of them are even larger than a common mouse.

  23. He has been heard to say that, in investigating the habits of the shrew mole, he walked many hundred miles.

  24. If a common mouse-trap be used, it is necessary to work it over with additional wire, as this shrew could pass between the bars even of a close mouse-trap.

  25. Now I shrew their best Christmasse chekes[539] both togetherward.

  26. My mynde was vexed, I shrew his head sottish dolt.

  27. I shrew them that say nay, and that shall not be I.

  28. As to legend, everybody has heard of the shrew ash whose leaves, after a Shrew has been inserted living into a hole cleft in the tree, are a specific for diseases of cattle, caused by the Shrew itself creeping over them.

  29. The former is the Shrew of legend and superstition; and it is no doubt the species that has lent its name to the more untameable members of the softer sex, though it is the males which are especially pugnacious.

  30. It is probable that all this rustic feeling is due to the powerful effluvium which the Shrew undoubtedly emits.

  31. Neighbours," the shrew continued volubly, "she be no more my lady than I be.

  32. Then on the road you may leave her," the shrew retorted.

  33. If his wife's family is numerous and wealthy, the unhappy man who is wedded to an untamable shrew is often driven to desperate expedients to break his chains.

  34. The northern Chinese use a curious and highly appropriate expression to describe a woman of the shrew type.

  35. The abject terror with which an uncompromising village shrew is regarded by her male relatives and neighbours frequently creates situations which would be somewhat ludicrous if they did not contain an element of pathos.

  36. Another underground-dweller is the elephant shrew of South America.

  37. The shrew mole of North America is a ground-digger of great ingenuity.

  38. It was thy master's; shrew me, If I would lose it for a revenue Of any king's in Europe!

  39. Ay, mistress; and Petruchio is the master, That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long, To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.

  40. Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio, I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.

  41. Go, girl, I cannot blame thee now to weep, For such an injury would vex a very saint; Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour.

  42. By this reck'ning he is more shrew than she.

  43. Gerarde says that, mixed with vinegar, it is a good antidote to the poison of Mushrooms or Toadstools, and taken with wine counteracts the poisonous effects of Hemlock and the bites of the shrew mouse and sea dragon.

  44. In one of them, Petruchio woos and tames the shrew Katharina; in the other, Katharina's sister Bianca is wooed by lovers in disguise.

  45. Shakespeare's share in the play (the scenes in which the shrew and her tamer appear) is farce with ironic philosophical intention.

  46. September 1 a marsh shrew was trapped in the tall sedges of a beaver meadow near Gogebic Lake, Ontonagon County.

  47. The Richardson shrew is apparently a characteristic mammal of this habitat, though other shrews and mice were taken here also.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.