creature
Example Sentences
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Villarreal: I feel like Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is so steeped in the culture because the creature, the monster, is such a part of pop culture.
From Los Angeles Times
But local pigeon welfare campaigner Jenny Coupland said the birds were "brilliant" creatures and defended people's right to feed them.
From BBC
The last time these researchers spotted this type of “extraordinary octopus,” the creature was also holding part of a jellyfish, which at the time helped scientists understand its surprising diet of gelatinous animals.
From Los Angeles Times
His immortal creatures are dull, repetitive, empty; they express the ancient Greeks’ idea that the immortal gods suffer from terminal boredom.
It is therefore a creature of confidence, he writes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
