field mouse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of field mouse
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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The large Japanese field mouse consumed the seeds where plants and bushes protected them from predators.
From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2023
Someone may have been watching us — a dusky shrew, a field mouse, a rubber boa — but it felt like we were alone with the world to ourselves.
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022
"All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode."
From Fox News • Dec. 12, 2021
When Nature Calls With Helen Mirren This new episode imagines that a field mouse is heavily into non-fungible tokens and that a bear is actually a divorced gym teacher.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2021
That meant he could save his five remaining bullets for serious security threats, though he didn’t want a repeat of the nerve- rattling fiasco with the field mouse.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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