MOUSE in a Sentence

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72 example sentences for MOUSE, such as:

1. A mouse is a small animal.
2. A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
3. I devised how to catch the mouse.
4. The bird is hovering over a mouse.
5. Move the mouse pointer to the menu bar.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOUSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mouse
 n.  a hand-operated device to control a cursor on computer screen
 n.  a small rodent with large ears and a long tail
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  The bright eyes belonged to a little gray mouse, and the mouse had eaten a hole into the cushion and made a comfortable nest there.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  They found the rose-colored brocade boudoir and the hole in the cushion the mouse had left, but the mice had grown up and run away and the hole was empty.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  Yes, yes,' answered the mouse, 'by all means go, and if you get anything very good to eat, think of me.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
4  She said to the mouse: 'You must do me a favour, and once more manage the house for a day alone.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
5  The good mouse consented, but the cat crept behind the town walls to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
6  During the cat's absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
7  The mouse at once asked what name had been given to the third child.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
8  'All-gone' was already on the poor mouse's lips; scarcely had she spoken it before the cat sprang on her, seized her, and swallowed her down.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
9  My tale is done, there runs a mouse; whosoever catches it, may make himself a big fur cap out of it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
10  Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
11  The bird's duty was to fly daily into the wood and bring in fuel; the mouse fetched the water, and the sausage saw to the cooking.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
12  For, when the mouse had made the fire and fetched in the water, she could retire into her little room and rest until it was time to set the table.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
13  Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
14  They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
15  He picked up the wood, and flew sadly home, and told the mouse all he had seen and heard.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Two cats and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone, never agree in one.
2  A mouse is a small animal.
3  His wife, a strange little mouse, never said anything.
4  A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
5  Move the mouse pointer to the menu bar.
6  Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
7  The bird is hovering over a mouse.
8  I devised how to catch the mouse.
9  The noun " mouse " is the singular form of " mice ".
10  The police played an elaborate game of cat and mouse to trap him.
11  He held the mouse in the palm of his hand.
12  The mountains have brought forth a mouse.
13  It's a poor mouse that has only on hole.
14  The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
15  Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.