CREATURE in a Sentence

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For CREATURE, below is one of 243 sentences:
The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so the hunter contented himself with cutting away one haunch and part of the flank.

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 Meanings and Examples of CREATURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
creature
 n.  a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
 n.  a human being
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  That creature had gone a little way when she began to limp and show every sign of being foot-sore.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  The unfortunate creature's tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  He became haggard and restless, and his eyes had the troubled look of some hunted creature.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so the hunter contented himself with cutting away one haunch and part of the flank.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  There was no living creature near the remains of the fire: animals, man, maiden, all were gone.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
8  Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
9  No creature among them went upon two legs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
10  "Well, sir, it went so quick, and the creature was so doubled up, that I could hardly swear to that," was the answer.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
11  The creature who crept into my house that night was, on Jekyll's own confession, known by the name of Hyde and hunted for in every corner of the land as the murderer of Carew.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
12  I took and furnished that house in Soho, to which Hyde was tracked by the police; and engaged as housekeeper a creature whom I well knew to be silent and unscrupulous.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  A creature so foul to look at, in her tatters, stains and splashes, but so much fouler than that in her moral infamy, that it was a shameful thing even to see her.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
15  The creature struggled, struck her, seized her by the hair; but Rachael had the cup.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  The fact that you wear a wristwatch is another sure sign that you are a creature of commitment.
17  Snail is a small plant - eating creature with a soft body.
18  They appreciate all the creature comforts of home.
19  Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creature of man.
20  The creature was foaming at the mouth.
21  The weasel is a very pretty little creature.
22  This creature's fur is short, dense and silky.
23  Sometimes a creature uses a pair of antennae to swim.
24  The first living creature sent into space was a dog named Laika.
25  There are creatures so little, so weak, as to be easily restrained thus, and triumphed over; but the leviathan is not one of these: he is made to be the terror, not the sport and diversion, of mankind.
26  The way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!
27  And that's the jury-box, and those twelve creatures.
28  The ecologist was concerned that the new dam would upset the natural balance of the creatures living in Glen Canyon.
29  He used to prey delicate creatures, that are spooked easily.
30  All living creatures are thought to descend from an organism that came into being three billion years ago.