shrew

How To Use shrew In A Sentence

• He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
• These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
• For them there was no shelter from the cold, no shrewd crawling to leeward in snug nooks. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
• They were wed by special dispensation at St Mary's Church in Shrewton on Monday afternoon in a ceremony performed by Royal Yeomanry padre Simon Bloxam-Rose.
• General manager Danny Ferry made a shrewd move in signing the 32-year-old power forward.
• He also looks a shrewd investment. The Sun
• It is not merely that she is eloquent and articulate; she is also unusually shrewd and intelligent.
• Don't bet against it as this Donegal team have the basis upon which a shrewd operator like Brian can build.
• But he appears to have made another shrewd move. Times, Sunday Times
• The changes will be benefit for the study on the character mitochondrial proton leak thermogenesis of diaphragm and cardiac muscle in tree shrews during the cold expose.