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How to use baboon in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Baboon means an Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. Example: “Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons.”

Examples of baboon by meaning

nounAn Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail...

  • Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons.1971, Philip José Farmer, Down in the Black Gang: and others; a story collection, Nelson Doubleday, page 79
  • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2...

More sentences with baboon

  • I just watched a crazy video where a solo leopard attacked a flange of baboons.2023 August 18, thebligg, “ow many baboons does it take to kill a leopard?”, in reddit, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2026. From the entry flange
  • The ancient baboon, Papio angusticeps, is the first nonhominin primate found at the site.2015 August 24, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “A Piece of the Earliest Baboon Ever Found”, in New York Times. From the entry nonhominin
  • I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.2006, Rick Crosier, Getting Away with Murder. From the entry flange
  • Like baboons, mandrills and drills have forelimbs and hindlimbs of nearly equal length.1999, John G. Fleagle, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 200. From the entry mandrill
  • The commonest game animals are vervet and colobus monkey, baboon, common duiker, bush-pig and grysbok.1969, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, volume 63, page 19. From the entry bush pig
  • I noticed a quarrel between an old brokenhanded baboon and a young dude with fine fur.1917, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, World Outlook - Volume 3, page 24. From the entry brokenhanded
  • Hyena biologists often think of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) as baboons with big teeth and relatively small brains.2003, Anne Engh, Kay E. Holekamp, “Case Study 5A: Maternal Rank "Inheritance" in the Spotted Hyena”, in Frans B. M. De Waal, Peter L…. From the entry hyena
  • The waiters thought him a gibbering baboon.2001, Frank Palescandolo, Remembrance of a Restaurant: A Decameron of Dining, iUniverse, page 199. From the entry Tarzanese
  • Similarities also exist between the antigenic properties of the β₁-glycoproteins obtained from chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, cynomolguses, and baboons.1978, B. J. Catley, “5: Glycoproteins, Glycopeptides, and Animal Polysaccharides”, in J. S. Brimacombe, editor, Carbohydrate Chemistry…. From the entry cynomolgus
  • Consider the baboon in his cage.1995, Albert Cohen, translated by David Coward, Belle du Seigneur, Viking, →ISBN, page 354. From the entry babooness
  • Picasso, among his superb illustrations to Buffon’s ‘Natural History’ has just such a baboon that is a marvel of exact observation and of insight.1950, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Pillars of Hercules: The Iberian Scene, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, page 46. From the entry babooness
  • In one sense, the tragic mulatto heroine is baboon—babooness, if you will—since she has to deny, or at least denigrate, her Blackness in order to be tragic.2020, Clifford Mason, Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers…. From the entry blackness
  • A mere school of fish, a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, and a congress of baboons—am I to believe these lower primates are my ancestors?2015 January 5, Desmond Mattocks, “Seeking Meaning”, in The Last Word of America: The World in Context of America, Bloomington, Ind.…. From the entry parliament
  • Despite all of the groups' experiences with leopards and carcasses in trees, neither the vervets nor the baboons gave alarm calls at the sight of the carcass alone.1992, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, page 284. From the entry carcass
  • It is not necessary to suppose that the “Gorillai” were really Gorillas; in fact, they were probably dog-faced baboons, which, when attacked, do sometimes throw stones at their attackers.1931, Richmond Palmer, The Carthaginian Voyage to West Africa in 500 B. C.: Together with Sultan Mohammed Bello's Account of The Origin of…. From the entry Gorillai

Meaning of baboon

  1. noun An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
  2. noun A foolish, stupid or incompetent person.
  3. noun A black person.

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Questions about baboon in a sentence

How do you use baboon in a sentence?
Baboon is used as a noun. For example: “Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons.”
What is a short sentence with baboon?
“Consider the baboon in his cage.”
What does baboon mean?
Baboon means an Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.

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