How to Use weasel in a Sentence

weasel

1 of 2 noun

• That’s exactly how this weasel should sound like.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
• Their update does nothing to assuage my anger over their weasel words.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2012
• Everything from hawks to eagles, weasels to wolves may eat them.
  — Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
• Crawling up the dry arroyo, bellies in the dirt like common weasels.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• This charming little weasel hasn't been off the government dime for decades.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Apr. 2017
• The most dramatic feature is the tail, which can be longer than its slender weasel-like body.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2021
• Min-ah’s haughty mother-in-law abuses her and Min-ah’s weasel of a husband cheats on her.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The weasel—to misquote a line from For All Mankind—has landed.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• Researchers found that magpies put most of the spikes on top of their nests to keep away predators like other birds and weasels.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• The owner's weasel of a son (Ben Foster) does not, and demotes him.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2022
• If a weasel sees its shadow on a golf course in November, that means six more weeks of denial.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• To call someone a weasel means the person is shifty, untrustworthy.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 13 June 2016
• Is there a connection between the weasel that is rumored to be living in the building and the kitchen god?
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• As an actor, Joel Kinnaman used to think of himself as a weasel.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• Wolverines are technically a type of weasel but look more like a cross between a large badger and a small bear.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• The tiny bodies of weasels, shrews and bats burn energy so fast that skipping even one meal can mean starvation.
  — Leonie Baier, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026
• In these forests, everything from trees to weasels depends on the bears’ annual slaughter of salmon.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2017
• American history shows that in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up.
  — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2018
• This dog-size weasel, which grows to about 30 pounds, has daggerlike claws and jaws strong enough to tear apart a frozen moose carcass.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• In 1994, these young men risked their careers by going after those beady-eyed, blood-thirsty weasels.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 8 Apr. 2017
• Not a rodent, per se, but a weasel-like human, the kind of guy who plays drug dealers and police informants and creeps.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• And, to be fair, these little guys (actually the largest land-dwelling weasels) are ferocious.
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 2 June 2015
• The infected person reportedly worked on a farm where the weasel-like creatures are bred for their fur.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 19 May 2020
• Normally, during the warmer months, timber rattlesnakes feed on weasels and small rodents.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
• Wolverines look like small bears but are actually very large weasels, and their wounds pretty much stay wounds for the normal amount of time.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 19 May 2017
• Oh but Jim, the long run does seem awfully long right now, and alas, the weasels and liars appear to be firmly in command.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2018
• Rats, cockroaches and weasels run amok, tearing through limp tent sheets and biting children and newborn babies in their sleep.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
• Most Wanted—every last rat, weasel, ferret, possum, and stoat that has invaded the city.
  — Mara Johnson-Groh, Popular Science, 26 May 2020
• Elil are rabbit’s natural enemies — cats and dogs, weasels and hawks, men, all grouped as the Thousand.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• In it, a man appears to be sleeping outdoors, but the true story is revealed by the presence of a weasel climbing onto his foot.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019

weasel

2 of 2 verb

• So how does Mizzou weasel its way into the 12-team field?
  — Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 21 Nov. 2025
• Equifax is doing everything to weasel out of this settlement.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2019
• Because the sinuses are close to the brain, there’s a fear that virus particles could weasel their way in there and cause damage.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• Muir must use his wits to weasel his way into meetings while evading suspicion of his intentions.
  — Terry Terrones, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• The council opposed the idea of Pebble trying to weasel their way in and throwing all their money around.
  — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Red Solo cups have somehow weaseled their way into Southern culture.
  — Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2017
• The movie industry, people are just trying to get their next project and trying to politically weasel their way through.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2022
• But mathematicians have tinkered with the process, finding new ways to weasel around obstacles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2022
• Elon Musk has been trying everything to weasel out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2022
• Forty-year-old Guy Trilby weasels his way past the rules and competes in a school spelling bee, hoping to move on to the next level.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 June 2023
• Tiny’s ex-lover Jerome tries to weasel the secret of her talents from her, so as to spread them to the male barbers in Cross River.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• So, that was a good learning experience and a humbling experience of being on the outside and trying to weasel my way in.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
• And when untrustworthy people weasel through the cracks and cause harm, secure people are less affected than the insecure.
  — Marisa G. Franco, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
• Some ideas never made it past the pitch stage, while others managed to weasel their way into development—only to be stymied before hitting the airwaves.
  — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 6 Apr. 2017
• In this day and age, people are happy to consume rumors and then regurgitate them in toxic judgment, but the truth has a way of weaseling its way to the surface.
  — Evan Bass, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2017
• The Biden administration, fearing bad news in the near future, is trying to weasel away from that definition.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 27 July 2022
• Stink bugs can weasel their ways into spaces, but often cannot figure out how to escape, thus causing a small community to suddenly inhabit your home.
  — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 14 June 2022
• This is not a way to weasel some internal PR into your brand, but rather a genuine method for improving your company's performance.
  — Yec, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• These weeds—the ones that do the impossible and weasel their way through cracks in the patio, concrete, pavers, and driveway—can be so difficult to remove since most weeding tools don’t fit in between the cracks.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 3 May 2024
• So in between debates, Harris and her staffers repeatedly weaseled on abolishing private health insurance.
  — Peter Spiliakos, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
• Peter Sarsgaard offers a sly, juicy performance as a shady chef who weasels his way into the home of an entitled young heir (Billy Magnussen).
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Maybe this all just an exercise in futility, and the real reason Harsin still has a job is that the school couldn’t figure out a way to weasel out of the coach’s $18 million buyout.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 Feb. 2022
• Despite those pledges, Hirsch and many local residents say Boeing and the federal government have repeatedly tried to weasel out of their commitments.
  — Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• But unlike Covid-19, harmful particles from wildfire smoke can easily penetrate cloth coverings and weasel through gaps between the mask and a person’s face.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
• While the idea of cybercriminals forking over a few bucks to weasel their way into a person's online accounts sounds scary, there are a couple simple cybersecurity practices that can keep everyone safe.
  — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2018
• The plot follows a pair of broke compulsive consumers who weasel their way into the environmental movement, initially to enjoy the free beer and snacks, before starting to be won over the political arguments.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• The leader in the shrinkage was a troubled Twitter, led by a new owner who, after trying to weasel out of his $44 billion commitment to buy the firm, has thrown himself into the task of fixing its problems.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2022
• From there, the Giants remained deadlocked in a 1-1 tie until the 10th, though San Francisco’s relievers had to weasel their way out of trouble to keep the game tied.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
• Another day, another Hollywood relationship that Pete Davidson has managed to weasel his way into.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2022
• Microsoft now feels that OpenAI is trying to weasel its way around this clause, with both companies’ lawyers fighting for weeks over the latter’s agreement with Amazon, sources told the FT.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026