(n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
(n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
(n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
(n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(2) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
(3) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(4) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
(5) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(6) Although most studies emphasise the similarity of the australopithecines to modern man, and suggest, therefore, that these creatures were bipedal tool-makers at least one form of which (Australopithecus africanus--"Homo habilis", "Homo africanus") was almost directly ancestral to man, a series of multivariate statistical studies of various postcranial fragments suggests other conclusions.
(7) Highlights included TV series All Creatures Great and Small, competing in Strictly Come Dancing and starring in the touring stage production of Calendar Girls.
(8) They are two separate creatures with very different structures, more like a virus and a host: co-dependent but each with delusions about who is the superior form of life.
(9) Like traditional English philanthropists, the ladies running Hailsham believe that some wider public will feel more humanely towards these "poor creatures" if they can be shown to make art.
(10) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
(11) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(12) They could hardly believe it, this tiny creature sitting on the bench.
(13) The film uses new technology to transport viewers back 200 million years, to the time when pterosaurs lived – flying creatures with a wingspan of up to 14 metres.
(14) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
(15) When Rolls-Royce launched a $1.2m Year of the Dragon edition of its Phantom, with the creature hand-painted on its wheelbase and hand-stitched on to cushions, all eight sold in two months.
(16) Many of the patients anthropomorphise the seal, enjoy pretending that it is a real, living creature, with all the associated foibles.
(17) Executives at Lafarge global headquarters in Paris should take note that the second part of the name allocated by the molusc specialists who named this new creature is lafargei.
(18) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any other creatures that we don’t routinely eat.
(19) Records show there were many reports of beaching whales in the Netherlands in the early 17th century, prompting a surge of public interest in the creatures.
(20) Sir David suggested spyholes to allow the public to watch the gorillas without the creatures realising they were being observed, but he didn’t seem entirely convinced by his own idea.
Monster
Definition:
(n.) Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
(n.) Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
(n.) Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
(a.) Monstrous in size.
(v. t.) To make monstrous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(2) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
(3) It’s the first time the digital monsters have made it on to smartphones – so what do you make of this new venture?
(4) We report here that two other members of this peptide family, rat growth hormone-releasing factor and helodermin H38, a component of Gila monster venom, also increase the rate of dopa synthesis, while glucagon-like peptides I and II and a number of other peptides tested produce no effect.
(5) One of the other studies, not written by Preece, used the word "monster" in its title, unusual language for a scientific report.
(6) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.
(7) While Mind Candy tries to crack it, Smith said it remains committed to the web-based virtual world that started off the Moshi Monsters phenomenon – "the beating heart of the property" – despite changing habits of children.
(8) He warned that the US federal reserve would need to pull the lever on "monster" quantitative easing [QE]".
(9) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
(10) The £150m black hole over iPlayer and playback-watching is a monster problem at the very time it’s being solved as George and Tony trade.
(11) Like Dr Frankenstein increasing the dose until the monster comes to life.
(12) The multiple manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus recall the ancient Greek monster the Hydra.
(13) Cotto is probably at the head of the queue but there are other intriguing options, including the monster of the division, the unbeaten Gennady Golovkin, and Chris Eubank Jr, who looked good stopping the former Saunders victim, Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan in London on 12 December – or even a rematch with Lee.
(14) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
(15) Five increasingly anionic variants (Pa1-Pa5) of Ca2+-dependent phospholipase A2 were purified to homogeneity from the venom of the lizard Heloderma suspectum (Gila monster).
(16) The attribution of sympathy became the creative battle in the making of Monster.
(17) The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.
(18) Following his role in Gods and Monsters, McKellen went on to shoot what would prove his most popular role, as Gandalf in the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy .
(19) The club’s new president, Bruno de Carvalho, has denounced as a “menace” and “monster” the funds to whom majority stakes in almost the club’s entire squad were sold before he was elected in March 2013 and he vowed to end the practice.
(20) Indeed, continually depicting Muslims as the supreme evil - even when compared to the west's worst monsters - is par for Harris' course, as when he inveighed : Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies."