Example Sentences

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Richard Owen loathed small mammals, calling them “ratlike, shrewlike forms of the most stupid and unintelligent order of sucklers.”

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

They were tiny, shrewlike beasts yearning for a chance to evolve if they could just get out from under the thunderous feet of their dinosaurian oppressors.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2013

Now the discovery of a partial skeleton of a small, shrewlike mammal, described online today in Nature, pushes back the date of the divergence by 30 million years, to 160 million years ago.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 24, 2011

Endangered species with unique traits include the shrewlike Cuban solenodon, one of the few mammals to inject venom through its teeth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2011