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.
• There are dead mice on the floor.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• There is no cat-and-mouse here.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
• Are there rats or mice on cruise ships?
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
• So does the grip that wraps around the mouse.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
• Read on to learn how foil can help keep mice away.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
• Stale air with the faint stench of a long-dead mouse.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
• Look for any small holes or crevices mice could squeeze through.
  — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 14 June 2026
• Look for any small holes or crevices mice could squeeze through.
  — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 7 Feb. 2026
• Fancy a slice of mouse tail pie?
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
• More than likely a mouse or rat.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Owning a cat can keep mice away.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
• Cindy Lou loves to zoom around with her toy mouse.
  — Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
• The studies were done in labs and on mice.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 19 Feb. 2026
• Dust is just as bad for keyboards and mice.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
• Set aside your mouse and keyboard.
  — PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
• That creates a cat-and-mouse game.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
• Use steel wool to prevent mice.
  — Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 25 June 2026
• Older mice had more, younger mice had less.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• What’s the best gaming mouse to buy?
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
• But that’s mice—what about humans?
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025
• Despite its low weight, the mouse is built to last.
  — George Yang, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
• In use, the mouse is as quiet as, well, a mouse.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 15 Mar. 2026
• In fact, one mouse was still alive when the study ended.
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
• For most mice, this would be a hard suite to compete with.
  — PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
• The risk of seeing a rat or mouse on your next cruise is, too.
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 May 2026
• Both of you can be mice, but only one of you can reach the top shelf.
  — James Factora, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
• This 49% off gaming mouse is for you.
  — George Yang, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
• Move over, Ash's Pikachu, there's a new mouse in town.
  — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025

mouse

2 of 2 verb

• So users can mouse across devices and drag and drop files between them.
  — Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 15 Mar. 2022
• To see all the precincts a candidate won, mouse over the candidate's name in the legend.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• There’s no more wasting time mousing all over the screen just to adjust the size of a brush or to set a different value.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• Volume and mute are easy to access without having to mouse over to your video application.
  — Zane Pickett, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Most mammals at the time were closer to mouse-sized, while dinosaurs dominated the landscape.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2020
• Which could explain why the folks at Disney World aren't Mickey-mousing around.
  — Neil Cavuto, Fox News, 3 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The only Nobel Prize for strictly mouse genetics was presented during this period.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• For now, voters mousing over to rival campaign websites won’t see nearly as many policy positions to contrast with those of the former President.
  — Time, 12 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Multi Control allows users who own a Galaxy Book to use its keyboard, trackpad, or mouse with a Galaxy phone without physically connecting the two devices.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Then, a decade ago, Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka identified a cocktail of genes that, when added to mouse skin cells, transformed them into a new kind of cell that grew happily in ever expanding colonies.
  — Kim Smuga-Otto, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2016
• The researchers identified several human and mouse microRNAs that seem to create an unfavorable physiological environment for viruses.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011