How to Use mouse in a Sentence

mouse

1 of 2 noun

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

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mouse

2 of 2 verb

• To see all the precincts a candidate won, mouse over the candidate's name in the legend.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2022
• So users can mouse across devices and drag and drop files between them.
  — Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 15 Mar. 2022
• Which could explain why the folks at Disney World aren't Mickey-mousing around.
  — Neil Cavuto, Fox News, 3 Jan. 2018
• The device would then process and transmit neural signals and allow the user to control their keyboard and mouse with their thoughts.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
• Most mammals at the time were closer to mouse-sized, while dinosaurs dominated the landscape.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2020
• The old, timid lifer mousing through the revolving door has served so many in government for so long that surely the trick will never die.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• The viewer can mouse over each element and read a brief description, and then perhaps click a link to access more details.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Volume and mute are easy to access without having to mouse over to your video application.
  — Zane Pickett, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Nonadjustable armrest height and width means this chair won't support keyboard and mouse hands properly for many, if not most, people.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2020
• That may tick off some right-handed gamers who don’t like power cords on the same side as their mousing hand, but MSI does at least provide a right-angle plug to make routing less obtrusive.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 6 June 2019
• In what will be the office of incoming press secretary Jen Psaki, a computer keyboard and mouse on her desk were encased in plastic.
  — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2021
• The Settings app has been updated to include the translucency and mouse hot-tracking effects that Fluent brings, for example.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2018
• On some dashboards, the line graphs have each data point or segment labeled, but the graph is so small that the labels bleed together, forcing the user to mouse over each pinpoint dot on the graph to find precise info.
  — Brian Feldman, Bloomberg.com, 14 May 2020
• Zoom in on the map to find individual restaurants and mouse over locations to access the latest state inspection reports.
  — Orlando Sentinel Staff, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• To figure out how cells do this, researchers tested two known for going the distance—a soil-dwelling amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) and mouse pancreatic cancer cells.
  — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
• KeyRocket for Gmail Using keyboard shortcuts is always more efficient than mousing through menus, but many people don’t take the time to learn and memorize them.
  — Michael Ansaldo, PCWorld, 4 May 2017
• At the end of a long day of video calls and Slack messages, workers unable or unwilling to meet up at the bar can mouse over to another tab for some virtual socialization on apps such as Discord and Clubhouse.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Former Disney blogging couple Charity and Matt Craig used the theme park as inspiration for their jewelry business, and are now selling quote bracelets to mouse lovers and beyond.
  — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The lab mice would pick up whatever the pet-shop mouse was carrying—everything from fur mites and pinworms to mouse hepatitis—and perhaps become immunologically more like the pet-shop mouse.
  — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2018
• Some companies like Just are working on growing familiar meats like turkey, pork, chicken and beef, while others are working on exotic options like foie gras, bluefin tuna and even mouse meat for pet food.
  — Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
• The link between such human settlements and house mouse fluctuations became even clearer when the team compared their fossil results to mouse populations around today’s hunter-gatherers.
  — Joe Blossom, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2017
• To see all the precincts a candidate won, mouse over the candidate's name in the legend.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2022
• So users can mouse across devices and drag and drop files between them.
  — Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 15 Mar. 2022
• Which could explain why the folks at Disney World aren't Mickey-mousing around.
  — Neil Cavuto, Fox News, 3 Jan. 2018
• The device would then process and transmit neural signals and allow the user to control their keyboard and mouse with their thoughts.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
• Most mammals at the time were closer to mouse-sized, while dinosaurs dominated the landscape.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2020
• The old, timid lifer mousing through the revolving door has served so many in government for so long that surely the trick will never die.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• The viewer can mouse over each element and read a brief description, and then perhaps click a link to access more details.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Volume and mute are easy to access without having to mouse over to your video application.
  — Zane Pickett, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Nonadjustable armrest height and width means this chair won't support keyboard and mouse hands properly for many, if not most, people.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024