menagerie

Example Sentences

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The menagerie at the Department of Health and Human Services keeps getting stranger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Callender’s shop employs more than 80 people and, in the span of just a few years, has added a half-dozen welding robots alongside a menagerie of other automation systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

For Churchill, an avid collector of rare and exotic animals, the platypus's intrigue only made him more desperate to have one – or six – for his menagerie.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

Marooned on “a breathtaking piece of land” at the peninsula’s far western edge, steps from the deadly surf at Ocean Beach, the timeworn seaside menagerie had endured weeks of gray gloom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

I climb to my feet and go instead to our menagerie.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen