How to Use weasel in a Sentence

weasel

1 of 2 noun

• At the same moment, a weasel popped up in front of her.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
• The weasel—to misquote a line from For All Mankind—has landed.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• In the wild, the weasel-like animals live in or near water.
  — Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic, 21 May 2020
• Live your life like a weasel on a trampoline: That is, with pure joy.
  — Matt Delong, Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
• The owner's weasel of a son (Ben Foster) does not, and demotes him.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2022
• The red panda was created with a coyote tail and the dyed hides of fishers (a kind of weasel).
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• 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
• Crawling up the dry arroyo, bellies in the dirt like common weasels.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• 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
• For example, there’s a yokai called the Kama Itachi, which is a kind of weasel creature that has sharp claws and flies with the wind.
  — George Yang, Wired, 3 Feb. 2022
• At work, Henry suffers the fake support of his sniveling weasel of a boss (P.J. Byrne).
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2021
• The most dramatic feature is the tail, which can be longer than its slender weasel-like body.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Meet a tayra, an animal that's part of the weasel family.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2019
• 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
• The concept art showed an evil queen with blue skin, spiky hair and a coat made from living weasels—an icy Cruella De Vil.
  — Nathalia Holt, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• If a weasel sees its shadow on a golf course in November, that means six more weeks of denial.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Their update does nothing to assuage my anger over their weasel words.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2012
• But the goat didn’t die after a single head shot; its legs kept flailing, as if to taunt Eisen for being such a weasel.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• And in the 19th century, European settlers and their coterie of stoats, weasels, cats, and dogs dealt the coup de grace.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
• As an actor, Joel Kinnaman used to think of himself as a weasel.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• Jamie is obviously a weasel, but that’s way harsh, Tai.
  — William Earl, Variety, 4 Dec. 2022
• Good, honest people are often crushed, and weasels are, too.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
• In 1994, these young men risked their careers by going after those beady-eyed, blood-thirsty weasels.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 8 Apr. 2017
• This charming little weasel hasn't been off the government dime for decades.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Apr. 2017
• The Suicide Squad’s version of Weasel is actually just be a big weasel.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• That changed in the 13th century, when Māori voyagers brought rats and dogs, and again in the 19th century, when European settlers brought more rats, cats and mustelids like weasels, stoats and ferrets.
  — Rina Diane Caballar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023

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weasel

2 of 2 verb

• 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
• 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
• Now this doctor just said Rona probably weaseled her way in.
  — Adiba Nelson, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2020
• 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
• That's one way to weasel out of an irresponsible tweet.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 25 Aug. 2017
• Elon Musk has been trying everything to weasel out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2022
• Equifax is doing everything to weasel out of this settlement.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 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 | [e-mail], al, 11 Feb. 2022
• Wolff clearly seduced, weaseled, confused and finagled his sources to get them yapping.
  — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 11 Jan. 2018
• 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 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
• Red Solo cups have somehow weaseled their way into Southern culture.
  — Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Tough Day: The inspector dinged you because your helper managed to weasel his way through a couple of overfilled boxes and even a sloppy splice that somehow missed your attention.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
• 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, HWD, 6 Apr. 2017
• But mathematicians have tinkered with the process, finding new ways to weasel around obstacles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 July 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So in between debates, Harris and her staffers repeatedly weaseled on abolishing private health insurance.
  — Peter Spiliakos, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
• This apparently is a big motivation in his hare-brained attempt to weasel out White House leakers, knowing how much more Trump cares about that than any of the actual responsibilities of being president.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 15 Sep. 2017
• Manafort’s and Cohen’s legal troubles will further cement in the public’s mind that corrupt people weaseled their way into Mr. Trump’s orbit before and during his presidential campaign.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Shortly after being committed, Sawyer becomes convinced that one member of the medical staff (Joshua Leonard) is actually her old stalker, having followed her to Pennsylvania, assumed a false name, and weaseled his way into a staff job.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Another day, another Hollywood relationship that Pete Davidson has managed to weasel his way into.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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

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