vole

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Examples

• Sons grew up to become less likely to form bonds with mates, making another generation of single-parent vole families more likely.

• With most diseases spread by rodents, the mouse or rat or vole is only an intermediary (a “host”) for fleas and lice and the like.

• The vole found quite a shoal of fish collected near the reeds; and for a few moments he frolicked about the edge of the shallow.

• More than half-way across the pool a large boulder stood out of the water, but the vole was heading towards the bank above.

• Close beside the river's brink, as the shadows darkened, he found the fresh scent of a female vole.

• By the middle of May, when another vole family of six had arrived, the number of vermin in the valley had perceptibly diminished.

• It was mingled with the faint odour of a field-vole that, doubtless, had been pursued and carried away by its persistent enemy.