dormouse

How To Use dormouse In A Sentence

• Dormice like the coppiced hazel woodland here — hence its other name: the hazel dormouse. Times, Sunday Times
• That's all the prompting the matronly dormouse needed.
• Amongst an immense number of others are found many new reptiles, some of them adapted for fresh water; species of birds allied to the sea-lark, curlew, quail, buzzard, owl, and pelican; species allied to the dormouse and squirrel; also the opossum and racoon; and species allied to the genette, fox, and wolf. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
• A huge decline in the number of Britain's native mammals - such as the water vole and dormouse - has led to the launch of a new organisation which is seeking the support of animal - lovers to help to save our furry friends.
• As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
• The garden dormouse is notorious for finding its way into vehicles.
• Then, I thank God, I have vast blessings; I have preserved my eyes, ears, and teeth; I have no pain left; and I would bet with any dormouse that it cannot outsleep me. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
• Commenters and bloggers from right to left, who normally spit and snarl at each other, have been as one in saying how awful she is, how scarey that a literal biblist and ignoramus with the geographical knowledge of a dormouse should have a chance of becoming President. RosieBell
• I see from the programme that one of these alleged smells is that of roasting dormouse. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
• She gazed at the absence of light coming through the string-like curtains on the exterior wall like an anxious dormouse who's been too long in hibernation.