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"Animal" in a Sentence (35 examples)
Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.
Life in prison is worse than the life of an animal.
A cow is a useful animal.
Cows are more useful than any other animal in this country.
Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
Roger is a party animal.
He sits upright, not crouched over his plate like an animal at a feeding trough.
The hunters captured the wild animal with a strong rope net.
A cheetah runs as fast as any animal.
It's the animal in me that wants it.
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Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.
It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
When he's hungry my toddler opens his mouth like an animal instead of asking us to feed him.
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
I spent my summer studying the animals and birds of the two islands.
Birds are as popular as animals in the toy kingdom, especially pigeons, owls and domestic hens.
“Long Story Short,” a new animated series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg with art by Lisa Hanawalt, trades the talking animals for kvetching humans.
My students are animals.
Own me, I'll let you play the role I'll be your animal
She speculated that things could deteriorate later: “I think they’re scared of the English, which is fair; we are animals.”
He's a political animal.
a whole different animal
no such animal
animal instincts
The season has been most unfavourable to animal life; and I, who am merely animal, have suffered much by it.
[…]—according to Sanssure, Abbé Fortis, Bruckenman, Jameson, Dr. Richardson, &c. &c. both animal and vegetal remains have been detected in Basalt and Wacke.
The body was covered with soft hair, and though undoubtedly human, it was very animal in its instincts and ways.
The unsatisfactory material at our command, however, renders it difficult to determine why we cannot prove a worship of a living incarnation for every deity who is represented on the monuments in a form either wholly or partially animal. We must wonder why, for example, the sacred hawk or hawks of Horus at Edfu (who never has human form) are scarcely mentioned.
He looked down at the tangled wet hair, the wild, bare, animal shoulders.
I thought: if pain is the thing shared by all living creatures, then I’m no longer human or animal or vegetal; I am unplugged from the tick of metabolism; I am mineral.
In any case, the argument the inhabitants of these parts would have advanced as their strongest one against the so-called chastity belt would, of course, have been that living species, whether animal or vegetative, were made the way they were for an obvious reason.
animal passions
But the line also distills pop culture’s big commandment about sex to its animal essence: If you’re not screwing somebody, you’re nobody.
To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion.
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