bestiary

Example Sentences

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The crew, who are near the end of a 65-year mission — suspended animation keeps them young and pretty — are transporting an extraterrestrial bestiary back to Earth.

From Los Angeles Times

Her bestiary, inevitably, is also a catalog of human greed, ego, and neglect.

From Salon

Such animals were found in bestiaries, which were illustrated books offering the most popular sources of information about animals, real or imaginary, during the Middle Ages.

From BBC

The bestiary of acceptable species on which respectable researchers can experiment is expanding.

From Salon

With terrifying beasts like the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer, Stranger Things has slowly been building up an impressive bestiary of monsters.

From The Verge