Meaning of mice-less | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

““Kitty” was found overcome⟳ from smoke⟳ between two trucks parked in the building. She was the pet of all of the Miller Company employes and especially of Mrs. W. C. Dearden, book[-]keeper, who said the cat inspected the shelves of merchandise regularly and took great pride in keeping the building mice-less.”

““I promised I would buy⟳ them some new mice as soon as I could find⟳ some.” But the officer’s luck had run⟳ out. No mice were available and the children grew more restless with each additional “mice-less” mile.”

“MICE-LESS MAZE / This kitten pokes its head from some electrical conduits stacked at the construction site of the new federal building in Fargo, N. D., after an apparently fruitless search⟳ through all those likely-looking tubes.”

“BARN CATS / OUTSIDE CATS / BE MICE-LESS!”

“You might say⟳ Angie Lowry’s career as an interior decorator was predicted by the handwriting on the wall many years ago. When she was 6 years old in her native Cheshire, England, her “mum” came in one night and found her darling daughter crayoning mice onto an otherwise mice-less wallpaper.”

“[Nathan] Lane’s dream⟳ movie mice-less /[…]He had to act with real mice, animatronic ones and computer-generated images.[…][He] said he’s much more comfortable with low-tech than high-tech.”

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