CREATURE in a Sentence

Learn CREATURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
243 example sentences for CREATURE, such as:
1. No creature among them went upon two legs.
2. This creature lives in the depth of the ocean.
3. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
4. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
5. Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CREATURE
creature
 n.  a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
 n.  a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
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)
1  The mayfly is an ephemeral creature: its adult life lasts little more than a day.
2  Even as he swam, the tentacle was lazily withdrawn, so that there was no sign of the creature.
3  Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.
4  The box jellyfish is widely considered the most venomous creature in the world.
5  William's presence by so much as a purr or a claw, and I have noticed that the agnostic is the only creature living who can treat a preacher with so much contempt.
6  "Don't you remember? You WON'T tell, WILL you, Joe?" And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands.
7  In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the spirit Ariel is an ethereal creature, too airy and unearthly for our mortal world.
8  If woman be the weaker creature, her frailty should be the more readily forgiven.
9  In Mexico, the jaguar has been a popular mythological creature dating to pre-Hispanic times.
10  The posterior leg pairs were slightly longer than those preceding it, giving the creature a pronounced trough between its 'back' and the vertically oriented front end.
11  A sphinx is a mythological creature that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head.
12  This creature lives in the depth of the ocean.
13  The storm culminated in one matchless effort that seemed likely to tear the island to pieces, blow it away, and deafen every creature in it.
14  Experts believe the elderly creature, that weighed a hundred and fifty kilograms, was once the personal pet of the British naturalist, Charles Darwin.
15  DNA tests have shown that this giant creature belonged to a subspecies of tortoise found on an island that the British explorer never visited.