How to Use creature in a Sentence

creature

noun
Definition of creaturenext
Synonyms for creaturenext
  • 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.
  • The group laughed and commented on the small creature’s strength.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The wu gok have the signature appearance of a sea creature stranded on Mars.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The piece was reminiscent of the freakish creature from Alien, bulbous and ant-like.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2022
  • For the quasi-bohemian who still very much appreciates her creature comforts.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Staff will share fun facts about these creatures and their connection to the ancient beach of Lyonia Preserve.
    — Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
  • If the melding doesn’t kill the animal, the once-pathogen can become a permanent fixture of the creature’s DNA.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • As the creature's carcass rots on the beach untouched — graphically described — Suzanne (who'd tried to help save it) goes frequently to meditate beside it.
    — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2022
  • But regardless, these creatures are rummaging around right underneath the placid, straight-outta-the-Eisenhower-era surface.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Maybe one in which a man is imprisoned in a bedroom where he is forced to work, in extremis, while constantly worrying that the creature randomly killing people in the outside world might wind up killing him?
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Up near Crystal Mountain, as time stretches toward eternity, Matthiessen sees tantalizing traces of the great creature: scat, scratch marks.
    — Yael Martínez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps our cosmos, complete with our hundred billion stars per galaxy and the hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe, is nothing more than a snow globe on some alien creature’s mantel.
    — Neil Degrasse Tyson, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Forbes, 19, and Jain, 18, who met working at a nature preserve and regularly scroll through the platform, couldn’t come up with a match for this creature, either.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • One of the most striking things about these creatures, however, is the fact that each of their eight arms almost seems to have a mind of its own, allowing an octopus to multitask in a manner that humans can only dream about.
    — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In the best case scenario, the creature’s stomach contents might be preserved, allowing scientists to determine the animal’s last meal, Pickles said.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
  • These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to their bony, cartilaginous shells and slow-pace movements.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The creature then rips her mouth open and crawls inside.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 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
  • The front of the pillow features a coastal creature, while the back is solid beige.
    — Jennifer Carmichael, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023
  • 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

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