How To Use Dormouse In A Sentence

  • The dormouse is a shy, nocturnal creature.
  • The vole, which is not a rat, is a goodly sight, and the smooth round dormouse (or sleep-mouse, as the children call it) is a favourite gift imprisoned in an old tea-pot. John Keble's Parishes
  • The dormouse is a shy, nocturnal creature.
  • How many of our visitors do you imagine will have had any experience of roast dormouse ? CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • That maidenlike friend of yours has taken possession of my bed, after your mother's routing me up as if I had been a stoat or a dormouse. The Buccaneer A Tale
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  • Ok, read me the story about the dormouse now.
  • But the dormouse went fussing about anyway, straightening and re-arranging.
  • The dormouse in Britain may face extinction if ancient woodland continues to disappear.
  • There is something of the dormouse in him still," said the dark-haired woman. STARDUST
  • The decline of the dormouse has mirrored the loss of ancient forests.
  • As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
  • It has several cousins on the continent, including the edible dormouse, the garden dormouse and the forest dormouse.
  • Dormice like the coppiced hazel woodland here — hence its other name: the hazel dormouse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Endemics include the desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalensis), comb-toed jerboa (Paradipus ctenodactylus), three-toed and five-toed dwarf jerboas (Salpingotus heptneri, S. pallidus). Central Asian southern desert
  • She gazed at the absence of light coming through the string-like curtains on the exterior wall like an anxious dormouse who's been too long in hibernation.
  • I see from the programme that one of these alleged smells is that of roasting dormouse. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Commenters and bloggers from right to left, who normally spit and snarl at each other, have been as one in saying how awful she is, how scarey that a literal biblist and ignoramus with the geographical knowledge of a dormouse should have a chance of becoming President. RosieBell
  • Then, I thank God, I have vast blessings; I have preserved my eyes, ears, and teeth; I have no pain left; and I would bet with any dormouse that it cannot outsleep me. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
  • The garden dormouse is notorious for finding its way into vehicles.
  • As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
  • A huge decline in the number of Britain's native mammals - such as the water vole and dormouse - has led to the launch of a new organisation which is seeking the support of animal - lovers to help to save our furry friends.
  • Amongst an immense number of others are found many new reptiles, some of them adapted for fresh water; species of birds allied to the sea-lark, curlew, quail, buzzard, owl, and pelican; species allied to the dormouse and squirrel; also the opossum and racoon; and species allied to the genette, fox, and wolf. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
  • That's all the prompting the matronly dormouse needed.

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