creature
Example Sentences
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In 1634, Rembrandt attempted to depict a lion for a scene of “St. Jerome Reading,” but Rubinstein said the shaggy creature in the print wasn’t realistic.
The creatures Bamberger seemed most proud of attracting to his property, however, were other human beings.
They provide homes for birds and squirrels and other woodland creatures.
“My home village,” he said slowly, “is home now only to fish and other creatures of the lake.”
From Literature
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“Where can we also highlight each of the elephants by name, so they aren’t just this huge herd of random gray creatures?”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.