How to Use creature in a Sentence

creature

noun
  • The poor creature had no way to get home.
  • She's a creature of rare beauty.
  • A social creature by nature, he loves working with people.
  • Few living creatures can survive without water.
  • There are no guarantees any of these creatures will survive.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2024
  • To engage with them was to look in a mirror and find a sinister creature staring back.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Looming in a field, about 100 yards east of the road, were what looked like three beastly creatures from another time.
    J. Harry Jones, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But not even the roar of the engines igniting, and a shaking spacecraft, were sufficient to dislodge the creature.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2023
  • In a desperate bid to prevent the alien from falling into the wrong hands, Ripley chooses to end her life along with the creature.
    Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
  • There are also some familiar creatures, including arthropods such as crustaceans and horseshoe crabs, as well as sponges, starfish, and worms.
    Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 1 May 2023
  • The curious sea creature—which sported a toothy, trunklike snout and eyes that were splayed out on a rigid rod—has been impossible to classify.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Furious Endings Right before the moment of its death, a giant star is an inflated, grotesque creature.
    Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Four full-size animatronic creatures, another rarity, appear in the haunt.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
  • When huge and age-old creatures emerge from the deep woods surrounding the villa, a series of strange and sinister events prompt three unlikely guests to band together in a desperate escape.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • That creature recalled a recent campaign urging Japanese employers to stop requiring female workers to wear high heels.
    Hikari Hida, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • The Henson creatures tend to have such a soul, for lack of a better word.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Way up in the mountains of Peru, a spiky creature settled in for the night.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Some of these creatures are oysters, shrimp, fish, and blue crabs.
    Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The story of Punchy the bull – the bovine creature found roaming the streets of Cleveland – got a lot stranger Friday.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • Along the roads of the island of Hainan, a small brownish-orange creature leaps from bush to bush.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
  • Of course, before these babies are born, the creatures must mate.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The Omicron variant had emerged like a creature from the Black Lagoon.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Little did the creatures know: They were being watched.
    Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Suzuki brought two new ideas to the show that promise to make life better for those on the water and the creatures that live in it.
    Evan Williams, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Based on the book by Robert A. Heinlein, the film has action stars, gross creatures, tons of slime, and nonstop thrills.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Google’s logo is covered in stars and is visible in the sky above the two space creatures.
    USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The silt covered and killed marine plants and bottom-dwelling creatures.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The ocean is home to some of nature’s most beautiful creatures.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But the seeds may be spread far and wide by creatures snacking on the fruit (not edible for humans).
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024

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