creature

Example Sentences

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The black flies are not the only troublesome creature acting up during the unseasonably warm weather.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Another challenge is the fact that this is such a heavy creature and one in a weakened state.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Stacy, being a Manhattan lady who lunches, loves her 24-carat gold creature comforts too much to join Preston on his Montana fishing trips because he never installed an indoor toilet.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

You are close to its trunk, experiencing its lofty height and its many branches spreading out like gesturing limbs of an animate creature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Slowly, stealthily, there stalked out of the reeds a creature as large as a wolf.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell