mouse

Example Sentences

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The mouse of a woman who believed in him, who helped him, a nobody just like him, mouse to his mook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The whole point of a cat-and-mouse tale is to show us how clever the mouse is, but Daniel doesn’t do anything the average person wouldn’t think of.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Using advanced transcriptomic analyses and functional studies in both mouse models and human samples, the researchers examined what happens when cancer cells lose MHC I expression.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

He’s flashing those long choppers, like a cat happy to see a mouse.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin