(n.) A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alcor has a reputation for celebrity clients, while KrioRus offers budget service, probably due to its communal approach to storage, with bodies sharing tanks with a menagerie of 20 or so pets (cats, dogs, birds) that owners have paid to preserve.
(2) Kids have to populate a zoo with colourful animals by folding them (virtually) together following on-screen prompts, then keep the menagerie occupied with items.
(3) Carroll takes on two fellow Britons in the best director category – Michael Grandage for The Cripple of Inishmaan and John Tiffany for The Glass Menagerie.
(4) Six dogs, six cats, rabbits and white rats make up a menagerie of slobbering, purring affection, punctuated by squawks from the geese as they flee the Rottweiler.
(5) It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
(6) Twelfth Night leads the field in the drama categories alongside John Tiffany's The Glass Menagerie, which also has seven.
(7) Start a menagerie What else would you want to do in your own garden but create your own zoo?
(8) Our previous visits to these vents with remotely operated vehicles have already yielded a menagerie of new deep-sea species.
(9) But its wild menagerie should be enough to ensure a colourful, controversial edition of the world's oldest film festival.
(10) (“Gosh,” murmurs Roy, as he gazes at a menagerie of living puppets and dolls, “you’ve really got nice toys here.”) It’s as children that we perhaps learn to warm to them, for all their chilling potentiality for violence.
(11) All she wanted was a home for herself and her husband, and her growing menagerie of rescue animals.
(12) Life During Wartime revisits this menagerie 10 years on.
(13) James, who kept a menagerie of exotic animals here and put his need to build huge towers down to “pure megalomania”, never completed his tropical shrine to surrealism but his fantasy realm remains a joy to explore.
(14) If that payroll shrinks, fears will grow that the building could symbolise the first of many white elephants in a new menagerie.
(15) The campaign reportedly involved a menagerie of contractors: Booz Allen Hamilton, a billion-dollar intelligence industry player and Snowden's former employer; Palantir , a PayPal-inspired and -funded outfit that sells "data-mining and analysis software that maps out human social networks for counterintelligence purposes"; and HBGary Federal , an aspirant consultancy in the intelligence sector.
(16) There, you will find not only a fascinating video of Big Dog in action, but also confirmation that its maker has a menagerie of mechanical beasts, some of them humanoid in form, others resembling predatory animals.
(17) The others on the shortlist were Carol Birch for her much-admired Jamrach's Menagerie , a historical high seas adventure; two Canadian writers - Patrick deWitt for The Sisters Brothers , a picaresque western, and Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues , which mixes the raw beauty of jazz and the terror of Nazism; and two debut novels – Stephen Kelman for Pigeon English , which tells the story of a Ghanaian boy who turns detective on a south London housing estate; and AD Miller for Snowdrops , a Moscow-set tale of corruption and moral decline.
(18) Over only a few decades of bioscience, our "new normal" could be closer to that menagerie of mutants and cyborgs that you see in the average Star Trek street scene than it might be to the muttonchopped visitors to the Crystal Palace.
(19) Even accepting that culling animals is routine in modern zookeeping, given the conflict between cage size and the commercial requirement for replacement babies, the existence of Gill’s menagerie, with its deprivation and mortality, is hard to square with, say, British donkey sanctuaries.
(20) But surely there could be nothing more apt: a mythical beast to join the capital's long lost menageries – like the medieval Barbary lions of the Tower of London, or the elephants and zebras of the Exeter Exchange on the Strand in the 18th century.