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

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

Her final meal before bed is what she refers to as "beastie bolognese," which she makes with browned ground meat, organic tomato sauce, garlic, onion, garlic salt, kosher beef seasoning, oregano and parsley.

From Fox News • Jan. 30, 2019

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