bestiary

Example Sentences

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“I have touched them, I have not only seen them in photos,” Zelaya said of his mental bestiary, as he flipped through an iPad of drawings at a restaurant in North Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times

The cartoonish, sometimes possessed looks of his creatures recall imagery from Japanese mythology and medieval bestiaries.

From New York Times

Poised between wild fantasy and thought experiment, Descartes’ demon is only the first of many such creatures to appear in Jimena Canales’s bestiary “Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science.”

From Washington Post

But South America spent most of this time period, the Cenozoic, as an island continent, complete with its own strange bestiary: giant ground sloths, bizarre native ungulates, tank-like armadillo relatives and saber-toothed marsupial predators.

From New York Times

In their houses, many spirit figurines come with entourages of servants, dancers and bestiary.

From New York Times