How to Use mouse in a Sentence
mouse
noun
- He moved the mouse to click on the icon.
- The house was infested with mice and rats.
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One of the mice appeared to be dead and the other alive.
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Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2023
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Check out our guides to the best mouse traps and how to get rid of silverfish.
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Amanda Garrity,
Good Housekeeping,
12 Mar. 2023
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What’s more, the changes occurred faster in mice than in humans.
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Quanta Magazine,
18 Sep. 2023
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But Hayashi and his team used stem cells from a male mouse instead.
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Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2023
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The leads are mice: a chic one, voiced by Eva Gabor; and a frumpy one, voiced by Bob Newhart.
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Chantel Tattoli,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Dec. 2023
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Do not use the trash can in the kitchen, as there is a huge problem with mice, rats, and gerbils.
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Julia Young,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2023
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Our brains are about 15 times the size of a mouse’s, with a thousand times as many neurons.
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Celia Ford,
WIRED,
12 Oct. 2023
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Get ahead of rodents When the weather turns cold, mice and rats search for ways to stay warm.
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Jeanne Huber,
Washington Post,
1 Sep. 2023
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If a fruit fly brain were a house, a mouse brain would be a city, and the human brain a nation or even a world.
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Rachel Shin,
Fortune,
8 July 2023
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All your recipient needs to do is fill the mice with cat food and hide them around the house.
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Yolanda Wikiel,
wsj.com,
17 Oct. 2023
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People have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with Google Maps over it.
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Cathy Free,
Washington Post,
9 Mar. 2023
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The park's newest coaster is a mere mouse among giants.
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Craig Webb,
USA TODAY,
5 May 2023
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My eyes were the cursor arrow, and my fingers were the mouse, it was explained.
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Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2024
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For instance, a 2014 study shows that CBG oil helped with slowing the growth of colon cancer cells in mice.
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All Cbd Naturals,
Discover Magazine,
3 Apr. 2024
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On PCs and Macs, members can play games on web browsers using a keyboard and mouse.
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Todd Spangler,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2023
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Others had a cat curled up in the window, taking a nap between mice hunts.
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Vulture,
20 Jan. 2024
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The result: mice raised on cooked food gained 15 to 40 percent more weight than mice fed only raw food.
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Katharina Menne,
Scientific American,
25 Oct. 2023
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Disney will retain the copyright to modern versions of the mouse.
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Andrew Dalton,
The Christian Science Monitor,
15 Dec. 2023
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There are a lot of drugs that work in animals, in mice, but nothing has been shown in people.
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Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
12 July 2023
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Interestingly, the mouse doesn’t come with any risers installed on the body of the mouse.
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PCMAG,
22 Mar. 2024
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Five buttons surround the scroll wheel of this ambidextrous mouse, while the bar at the top controls the mouse cursor.
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PCMAG,
27 Mar. 2024
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It was built to tuck under a desk, with its monitor, keyboard, and mouse on top.
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IEEE Spectrum,
1 Mar. 2023
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For mice, that may mean taking a pause from viewing a series of images.
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Erin Prater,
Fortune Well,
13 Dec. 2023
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The final part of the study involved experiments in mice.
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Linda Carroll,
NBC News,
19 Feb. 2024
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With that done, leave your mark on the document using your mouse or trackpad.
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David Nield,
Popular Science,
16 Aug. 2023
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With a few mouse clicks, the operator confirmed to the A.I. program that the image was indeed smoke from a fire.
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Thomas Fuller,
New York Times,
24 Aug. 2023
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An eight-inch-wide platform raised 20 inches off the ground stood at the center, covered in mouse bedding.
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Matt Hrodey,
Discover Magazine,
3 May 2023
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One evening in July 2004, Scott Kimball and his two boys were out in the backyard digging holes and chasing mice.
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Allie Weintraub,
ABC News,
12 May 2023
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