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How to use animal in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Animal means a multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms. Example: “Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.”

Examples of animal by meaning

nounA multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid...

  • Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.

nounA higher animal; an animal related to humans.

  • When he's hungry my toddler opens his mouth like an animal instead of asking us to feed him.

nounA tetrapod; a land-dwelling nonhuman vertebrate.

  • With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4

nounA non-human mammal.

  • 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.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 54
  • “Long Story Short,” a new animated series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg with art by Lisa Hanawalt, trades the talking animals for kvetching humans.2025 August 21, Robert Ito, “The Makers of ‘BoJack Horseman’ Take Family Matters by the Reins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The...

nounA person of a particular type specified by an adjective.

  • He's a political animal.

nounMatter, thing.

  • a whole different animal
  • no such animal

adjectiveOf or relating to animals.

  • 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.1918, W[ilhelm] Max Müller, “[Egyptian Mythology] Worship of Animals and Men”, in Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, editors, The...
  • He looked down at the tangled wet hair, the wild, bare, animal shoulders.1913–1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, in England My England and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Thomas...
  • 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.2012, Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 216

adjectiveRaw, base, unhindered by social codes.

  • 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.2016 August 26, Spencer Kornhaber, “Britney Spears Finds Grace in the Hook-Up on 'Glory'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on...

More sentences with animal

  • Your definition of "elephant" needs to be more precise than "a big animal with large ears".From the entry definition
  • A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.From the entry meat
  • You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.From the entry break
  • A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.From the entry fight
  • The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.From the entry shape
  • My daughter told me about all the different animals she saw at the zoo.From the entry different
  • The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.From the entry floor
  • Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?From the entry evil
  • In some countries, priests bless farm animals on St. Anthony's Day.From the entry bless
  • Animal anatomy is also called zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.From the entry anatomy
  • This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.From the entry ancestor
  • Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.From the entry scrap
  • Dogs are very loyal animals, which is why they make wonderful pets.From the entry loyal
  • From this vantage point we can observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitat.From the entry observe
  • The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.From the entry evisceration
  • The classroom had an alphabet frieze that showed an animal for each letter.From the entry frieze
  • At this time of year, you can see many animals courting.From the entry court
  • It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.From the entry humane
  • Even animals in the Jewish system cause impurity only when they are dead.From the entry impurity
  • The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.From the entry cargo
  • The words animal, citizen, comedy, and antepenultimate are stressed on the antepenultimate.From the entry antepenultimate
  • A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.From the entry sustain
  • The girl who had zoophobia didn't like animals, domestic or wild.From the entry zoophobia
  • Sterols are found in all animal and plant tissue and play an important role in hormone chemistry.From the entry sterol
  • The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.From the entry brim
  • Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!From the entry inspection
  • While some animals take months to reproduce, mayfly need just one perfect day.From the entry mayfly

Meaning of animal

  1. noun A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms.
  2. noun Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
  3. noun A higher animal; an animal related to humans.

Full definition of animal

Questions about animal in a sentence

How do you use animal in a sentence?
Animal is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.”
What is a short sentence with animal?
“no such animal”
What does animal mean?
Animal means a multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: animal (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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