bestiary

Example Sentences

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Her bestiary, inevitably, is also a catalog of human greed, ego, and neglect.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Neutrinos are, without question, the weirdest denizens of the vast and varied particle-physics bestiary: They come in three types, but somehow oscillate between these different forms as they travel.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022

Rothko also lingers within Argentinian artist Cecilia Bengolea’s sculptural bestiary, “Mosquito Net,” a few hundred yards away.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2019

The meaning of these stories may be basically the same as the meaning of a medieval bestiary.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas