beastie

Example Sentences

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"He was a well known beastie in the streets of the West End of Edinburgh," he added.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

That movie's entire marketing campaign oriented around the Statue of Liberty's decimation by the beastie Clover.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024

Joel’s paternal fondness for Ellie, it becomes clear, scares him more than any undead beastie.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

In 1998, she found it did, in fact, slow, by about one-hundredth of 1 second—proof that Duncan and Thompson’s theoretical beastie existed in the wild.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 8, 2021

He moved the conch gently, looking beyond them at nothing, remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire, the talk of fear.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding