How to Use beast in a Sentence

beast

noun
  • They were attacked by a savage beast.
  • He's a cruel, hateful beast!
  • That only goes to demonstrate that the healing may be (nearly) complete for both man and beast.
    Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Most have family throughout the region, including near where the eye of the beast made landfall.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But heart attacks are tricky beasts, presenting with symptoms that can differ from person to person.
    New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Even Fuhrmann, playing up her role as a manipulative little beast, can’t make some of these scenes work.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Hating your sibling is one thing, but organizing a wildebeest stampede on your brother is a beast of its own.
    Nitya Rao, Seventeen, 11 Aug. 2022
  • This might sound odd, but one of the best ways to level up your plank is to embrace your inner beast and introduce an exercise called the bear plank.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Policy, however, is a different beast — one best fed on a diet of courage and clarity.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • According to eyewitness accounts, the beast has been seen kneeling over a deer, walking on its hind legs, and reaching to the back of a truck to retrieve a roadkill deer.
    Rashad Alexander, Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Crevasses are appearing at higher elevations, glaciers are moving at non-glacial speeds, and large parts of the ice sheet appear to be twisting, like a writhing beast.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Chupacabra The chupacabra is often described as a blood-sucking beast that preys on livestock, particularly goats.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
  • For their upcoming production at the Winningstad Theatre, the company acquired a beauty of a beast.
    oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Hex Enduction Hour is its own beast — an invitation to a knife fight, a grab by the collar, an immersion into a surrealist netherworld.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 15 Aug. 2022
  • McLaren Special Operations unveiled its latest track-only beast this past Friday.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2022
  • This summer, the show will for the first time be staged in the belly of the beast.
    Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Mythosaur is less a beast or a monster, and more a sign of things to come.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The blimp is meant to look like the beast sandwich, which packs half a pound of meat.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Among the most impressive of these new beasts were the basilosaurids.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • LeBron and the Lakers, on the other hand, are the beast.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • The nature of the beast has changed, too, with the transfer portal.
    Joe Morgan, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • This beast at the heart of the Milky Way was first proposed in the early 1960s.
    Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The video shows the beast sauntering up to the front door and grabbing the bag in its mouth.
    CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • That’s sort of the nature of the beast right now for everyone.
    Tim Reynolds, ajc, 4 May 2023
  • The new Honda Civic Type R is a front-wheel-drive beast.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Eventually, the team gets the beast out of the pool, and drags it across the wet asphalt.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 11 June 2023
  • Nothing on the scale of the beasts listed above, but still, some big events.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • When the beast tired itself out, the two men made the return journey back to the truck, caiman in tow.
    Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • This dull and disposable film is a beast that needs to be put down.
    Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • On this hunt, the fourth free dive does it, and Hara finally emerges with the 73.4-pound beast in one piece.
    Kaila Yu, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022

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