How to Use beast in a Sentence
beast
noun- They were attacked by a savage beast.
- He's a cruel, hateful beast!
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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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