How to Use menagerie in a Sentence

menagerie

noun

• And on top of them was a bustling menagerie of worms, starfish, snails, crabs, shrimp, clams, and corals.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• The menagerie of ancient DNA helps paint a picture of life at some of the sites.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
• Every home has a menagerie of hoists, blocks, hooks, bones.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• The whole menagerie seemed to be there, from birds to bunnies, lizards to insects.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2019
• To most of us, the photo appears to capture a menagerie of life.
  — Natasha Daly, Animals, 2 Dec. 2020
• Over the years, Biden has amassed a menagerie of trusted counselors.
  — Philip Elliott / Goffstown, Time, 8 Feb. 2020
• One day, my mum added a duckling who couldn’t walk to our menagerie.
  — Longreads, 16 Sep. 2022
• Picasso lived with a menagerie of cats and dogs, and even had a pet mouse.
  — National Geographic, 14 Apr. 2018
• During the Fifth Republic, a menagerie of pets has come and gone at the Elysée palace.
  — The Economist, 18 Mar. 2021
• On most of my air travels, Michael stays home to secure the house and care for my menagerie.
  — Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
• Barnes grumpily moved his menagerie to the San Gabriel Valley.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2021
• To enter Blair’s house in a woodsy part of Studio City is to join her menagerie.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
• From time to time, a New York City pet shop will replenish the menagerie with new bugs.
  — Jane Perlez, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• The Fort Worth Zoo is adding to a growing menagerie of accolades.
  — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 17 June 2021
• The gallery works as an aesthetic menagerie, which makes sense.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 July 2019
• There’s a menagerie of country instruments heard in the show.
  — Deanne Revel, Southern Living, 17 July 2024
• The glass menagerie stood still, like puppies on adoption day.
  — Brennan Kilban, Allure, 15 Sep. 2021
• The sandwich shop is now closed, but the duo remains committed to the idea of menu as menagerie.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
• Then again, so is each one in her menagerie of characters.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
• The My Body author has been pulling out all the stops for this season's menagerie of fashion shows.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Sep. 2022
• The lawn hosts a menagerie of more than 200 plushy mesh and metal lawn ornaments.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Kids were using their phones to make art, or at least menagerie, of selfies.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• After a stop at McDonald’s, the pair took the meerkitten home, adding it to a menagerie of four dogs and a cat.
  — Trevor Marshallsea, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
• But Parker, unlike Thurber, was open to the world’s entire menagerie, worms to warthogs.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• Their horses were part of a domestic and wild menagerie that, even now, prompts a smile.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• Greer says as she and her menagerie walk toward her husband.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2018
• The menagerie of sculptures have served in playgrounds across the city for decades, and have endured the tough love of countless children.
  — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 27 May 2021
• Could Lacey shelter his menagerie there while welders used the equipment to fix the enclosures?
  — OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Willem Dafoe is a hilarious standout in the film’s menagerie of madness.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024
• Amid the menagerie of women Truman Capote surrounded himself with, Joanne Carson was perhaps the oddest.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024