monkey

Example Sentences

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Of course some of us wept and raged when he once again had to flee some bigger monkey that he had clearly annoyed, but while Punch was certainly cowed, he was never broken.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

"We're here since this morning. We rarely come to a zoo but we wanted to see cute Punch," said 32-year-old Sayaka Takimoto who drove two hours with her husband to see the monkey.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Punch is, as millions of his fans know, a 7-month-old macaque monkey living at Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

"It was a little monkey on our back and now we can both free up a little and hopefully get many more wins."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

All the time this was going on, I had the feeling that the big monkey was trying to tell me something.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls