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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her hat was an aggressively red felt and she peered out from under its big brim like a shrew ready to attack.
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I became attuned to the high-toned squeaking of shrews, which appeared to be engaged in conflict.
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Matilda has the reputation of being a shrew - do you think she will stay tamely in Anjou?
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The girls became shrews and harridans: they screamed at the help and they smothered their children.
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The very first mammals were small insectivores, probably very similar to this modern tree shrew .
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They placed a shrew into a social confrontation with another shrew.
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You have to listen and to know, to hear the shrews at all.