simian

Example Sentences

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As they advance and retreat, collapse and rise again, they often cluster in a kind of cool simian strut, pulsating, shaking, flipping back, whipping around.

From New York Times

For his part, Driver dominates “Annette” with the same tightly coiled mix of charisma and simian menace with which Henry — whose ego comes with generous dollops of shame and self-loathing — rules his precarious roost.

From Washington Post

Behind-the-canvas anecdotes are delicious, such as when “Candid Camera” host Allen Funt complained that Hirschfeld made him look like a simian.

From Washington Post

Her hair went gray with the shock of it, she said, and she had ceaseless nightmares about simians.

From Los Angeles Times

For example, the monkey pummeling the chest of its fallen compatriot may indeed have been practicing a crude simian form of CPR.

From Washington Post