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

But the director, Rob Savage, is so stingy with detail — What does the beastie want?

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 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

When he found there was no way to escape and no place to hide, he sat quaking with indignation, a wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, just as the poem said.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary