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.
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The front of the pillow features a coastal creature, while the back is solid beige.
— Jennifer Carmichael, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023 -
Jin-su becomes an executor-like creature and is pulled into hell once again.
— Kayti Burt, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024 -
There is such a beautiful creature inside of him that is trying to do good in the world, to love in the world.
— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2022 -
The idea that a big creature like an ankylosaur had to engage in camouflage indicates just how hostile the world around it was.
— Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023 -
Two brothers quickly learn their new town is overrun by vampires, and things go from bad to worse when one of them gets turned into a creature of the night.
— Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 17 Jan. 2023 -
Venomous creatures are milked, then a small, non-harmful amount of toxin is injected into animals like horses or sheep.
— Jackie Fortiér, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024 -
This was a crucial transition in the evolution of all creatures—including humans—that walk the planet today.
— Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024 -
Preparing her camera, Sveinsson waited for the hare to look toward her lens to capture this photo of the creature with its ears alert, staring right at her.
— Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023 -
Its porcelain body is made by luxury Spanish brand Maison Lladro, with a lid in the shape of an imaginary creature.
— Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023 -
Resembling land mammals as much as any sea creature, the manatee is a gentle giant vegetarian.
— Courtney Linder, Gloria Dawson, Dan Shapley, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023 -
Though not exactly in vogue in the academy these days, natural law is an objective and reliable framework, the idea being that the moral claims of any creature are evident in its nature.
— Matthew Scully, National Review, 2 Jan. 2023 -
Eileen is as a dazzled and confounded by her movie-star presence as everyone else, and shocked when Rebecca makes friendly overtures; how has she been singled out by this exotic creature?
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023 -
As played by Klaus Kinski, Dracula is a deeply sad, agonizingly lonely creature.
— James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
Stuck to rocks, shells, and piers in oceans around the world is a strange little creature called a sea squirt.
— Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 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
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