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• Who's going to look out for the little man as insurers increasingly weasel out of paying claims?From the entry little man
• He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.From the entry hedge
• When you start to feel unmotivated, you will look for ways to weasel out of your commitments.2011, Mel Robbins, Stop Saying You're Fine: Discover a More Powerful You, Crown Archetype, published 2011, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry lose face
• I lifted the extension, slowly released the button, easing in mid-ring like the weaselliest weasel.2009, Sean Beaudoin, Fade to Blue, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry weaselly
• As I said I do not post binaries I look for weasels just like you to stomp.2001 August 21, Curbstomp, “More proof Pedophile idiocy”, in alt.fan.air (Usenet). From the entry stompable
• Ounce for ounce, few creatures who hunt can match the relentless little least weasel.1978 January, Steve Maslowski, “The Least Weasel”, in Boys’ Life: The Magazine for All Boys, volume LXVIII, number 1, North Brunswick…. From the entry least weasel
• That's worth more than a weasel, isn't it?2016, Richard Blackburn, Rise of the Gatekeeper (Book 3 Guardians of the Gate), Lachesis Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry fesnyng
• The weasel drank his scotch like lemonade and before we had even touched upon our topic of interest he ordered another.2011, Joe Thompson-Swift, A Choice of Evils. From the entry drink something like lemonade
• And if they try to weasel out that way, Obama is warning them that he'll "call them out."2009 September 10, “Obama's Big Test”, in Newsweek, retrieved 16 May 2011. From the entry weasel out
• Modern carnivores appeared as well, diverging into the feliforms (cats, hyaenas, and mongooses) and caniforms (dogs, bears, raccoons, weasels, and seals).1997, Peter D. Ward, The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared, page 73. From the entry caniform
• The least weasel diets almost exclusively on tiny, selected mice.1973, John McPhee, “Travels in Georgia”, in Pieces of the Frame, 1st paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux…. From the entry least weasel
• Cryptoterfs are really good at using social justice language to weasel themselves into these spaces and make people accept Bad Ideas and i hate it.2019 October 25, shut up and go in peace (@deidaravore), Twitter. From the entry cryptoTERF
• To Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence, Wellcome Library, for guidance on finding images, locating Wellcome treasures, and warnings of 'weasel words' and 'peacock terms'.2018, Gianetta Rands, Women's Voices in Psychiatry: A Collection of Essays, page xi. From the entry Wikimedian in Residence
• With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help.1990 December 24, “Table of Contents: Is Uncle Sam Being Suckered?”, in Time. From the entry weasel out
• Also only in North Korea are tiger, lynx, two species of deer, Manchurian weasel and northern pika in the plateau regions of Paektusan.1985, H. Edward Kim, “Land and People”, in Facts about Korea, 18th Revised edition, Seoul: Hollym Corporation, →OCLC, page 22. From the entry North Korea
• But if it were like a rabbit that Rosa went, she came back like a weasel or some such sleek and lissom creature.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 99. From the entry sleek
• Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels.1903, Joel Chandler Harris, chapter 11, in "Brother Rabbit's Cradle", New Stories of the Old Plantation. From the entry truck
• Christopher suggested being "open" with the person you are parring off which will provide a "good grounding" for future tricky situations you want to weasel out of.2017 February 20, Lucy Woodham, “We asked a therapist how to stop overthinking things”, in The Tab. From the entry par off
• European stoats were long ago introduced to New Zealand (along with ferrets and weasels!) in the mistaken belief that they would control the burgeoning populations of introduced rabbits.2005, T. C. R. White, Why Does the World Stay Green?: Nutrition and Survival of Plant-eaters, page 91. From the entry stoat
• One would like to know if Hickwalls were rare at Bodicote and weasels at Shenington, or if in fact they were not considered to be vermin in these parishes.1975, Banbury Historical Society, Cake & Cockhorse, volume 6, page 126. From the entry hickwall
• He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book:Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. From the entry mongoose

Meaning of weasel

1. noun Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genera Mustela, Neogale, Poecilogale, and Lyncodon, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.
2. noun A least weasel (Mustela nivalis).
3. noun Any of certain other species of the family Mustelidae.

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Questions about weasel in a sentence

How do you use weasel in a sentence?

Weasel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Who's going to look out for the little man as insurers increasingly weasel out of paying claims?”

What is a short sentence with weasel?

“He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.”

What does weasel mean?

Weasel means any of the carnivorous mammals of the genera Mustela, Neogale, Poecilogale, and Lyncodon, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.