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noun
a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses.
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Origin of house mouse
First recorded in 1825–35
Words nearby house mouse
housemaster,
housemate,
house moss,
house moth,
housemother,
house mouse,
house music,
house of assembly,
house of assignation,
House of Burgesses,
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How to use house mouse in a sentence
This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.
Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.
While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.
British Dictionary definitions for house mouse
noun
any of various greyish mice of the Old World genus Mus, esp M. musculus, a common household pest in most parts of the world: family Muridae
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