(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.
Puppet
Definition:
(n.) A small image in the human form; a doll.
(n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
(n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
(n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Gays Against Guns protester carries a puppet representing congressman Lee Zeldin.
(2) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
(3) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(4) Senior Coalition members backed the minister, while accusing unions of being Labor’s puppet masters.
(5) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
(6) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(7) Extreme discomfort and anonymity are the chief challenges faced by puppeteers.
(8) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(9) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
(10) Three- and 4-year-olds attributed knowledge and perceptual experience to the person (either themselves or the puppet) who had viewed the hidden object, but not to the person who did not view it.
(11) Nothing that transformed the writer into a glove puppet of the manipulators of the media was acceptable to him.
(12) The program includes a self-instructional package presented by a children's puppet.
(13) No, you’re the puppet.” She said the intelligence agencies blamed election-related cyberattacks on Russia.
(14) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
(15) Things that you really wouldn't think about, like for example, you never use the word 'puppet'.
(16) Plans for the show, which has the working title No Strings Attached, are for a puppet presenter interviewing real life celebrities.
(17) With two people to a puppet, synchronised co-ordination was a new challenge.
(18) Anatomical dolls, medical puppets and stuffed animals, toys and games, as well as replicas of medical equipment and furniture are now available to demonstrate more clearly to patients what will be happening to them.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
(20) On the first day of every workshop, there would be a new Joey puppet with new joints or parts, and I'd always go say hello to him.