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verb

as in to sneak
to move about in a sly or secret manner a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mouse
Noun
Enhanced with a gyroscope and a new mouse mechanic, players can simulate movement with precision, akin to rolling a ball across the floor. Eammonn Dignam, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025 The first step: Show a mouse video snippets of sci-fi movies, sports, animation and nature. CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
Cooking Salmon With Avocado and Cilantro Salad Jan. 14, 2025 If those don’t appeal, mouse your way over to New York Times Cooking and make your own list. Sam Sifton, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025 The click-through rate, industry-wide, is less than 1 percent—and chalk some of that up to mouse error and click fraud. IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011 See All Example Sentences for mouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
  • There is no way a coward like Musk is in a position to accuse Sen. Kelly of being a traitor.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
  • This is a cop novel that fully satisfies its genre expectations — chases, gun battles, sinister bad guys, questionable cops, cowards and heroes.
    Claude Peck, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • It was filled with flowers, candles, branches and crystal icicles to create a winter wonderland.
    Emy LaCroix, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Another high point was snowshoeing in a forested canyon where a waterfall was all icicles.
    Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Two assailants sneaked into a camp of workers building the Z-Morh tunnel (an important highway project) and opened fire at the laborers and engineers.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Brentford are sneaking up on the rails, a further two points adrift of Hurzeler’s side.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On April 14, just before midnight, the 882-foot ship struck an iceberg, sparking a chain of events that would lead to one of the most dramatic shipwrecks in history, killing roughly 1,500 people, per Britannica.
    Nicole Briese, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The breaking off of this huge iceberg is an example of the ongoing shrinkage happening at the earth's poles over the past few decades as part of climate change.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In the rocky and sandy terrain of the Arabian peninsula, a dangerous creature lurks just below the surface in a burrow.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The Furry Detectives: Unmasking A Monster, The Furry Detectives: Unmasking A Monster, a four-part documentary, unpacks a horrifying conspiracy of animal abuse lurking beneath the Furry Fandom’s playful exterior.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Verb
  • The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.
    KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Related Articles Another California city bans ‘price-fixing’ software from RealPage to set rents LinkedIn buys Sunnyvale tech office for more than $70 million in cash Its shares slid about 6% as the markets opened in New York, leading a broad selloff in semiconductor firms from the US to Japan.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.
    Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022

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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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