menagerie
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The author said he moved to his new home in West Sussex because it had land for his "huge and expanding menagerie", and was quiet.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
They include a selection of more than 90 lots from a "cement menagerie" - painted sculptures of animals, historical figures and rural scenes.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Lolita Chakrabarti’s smart adaptation rode the magic carpet of Max Webster’s staging, which had the most enchanting menagerie of puppets since “The Lion King.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
She has created large canvases, embellished formal gloves and a gown, and—most shockingly—a decorated taxidermied goat covered in a menagerie of stitched animals, including a mischievous red-winged blackbird and a cheery possum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Ms. Freeman, the science teacher and head of the menagerie, peered at Coal and Door through silver-framed glasses as they stumbled in behind everyone else, still talking.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Wealthy rulers throughout history, from Carlos III of Spain to Moctezuma, the ruler of the Aztec Empire, have kept menageries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, both countries launched veritable menageries aboard rockets, although none both reached orbit and survived the journey before 1960’s Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 12, 2021
From his collection he supplies museums and menageries with beasts, wild and domestic, and schools and lyceums with animal skeletons, skins, and other objects for the study of natural history.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2020
Not so Edward Gorey, who was almost as eccentric as his ghoulishly humorous drawings, with their mysterious black-clad ladies, long-suffering children and ominous menageries.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
It is customary with traveling menageries in hot weather when convenient to a river to allow the elephants to take a bath.
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