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How to use creature in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Creature means a living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien. Example: “The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.”

Examples of creature by meaning

nounA living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.

  • insects and other creatures
  • Urologists often want live sea horses for study of kidney disorders, for the sea horse is one of the few marine creatures with functioning kidneys.1960, William Bittle Gray, Creatures of the Sea, New York : W. Funk
  • One answer to that is “No”: sounds exist in the perspective of creatures who can hear, although sound waves would still be bouncing around in the absence of such creatures.2018 June 18, Christine M. Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 27

nounAn unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.

  • When it comes to this creature you have to unlearn everything you've ever learned about physiology.2015 February 25, Nathan Kuzack, The Anguisher Creature, Nathan Kuzack
  • Tammy and Cherise heard the creature's roar.2020 October 24, Mike Jason, The Creature: What Is It?, Mike Jason
  • The group stood motionless as an entire stream of creatures emerged from the canyons and then passed through, one after another.2022 November 8, Kay Chronister, Desert Creatures, Erewhon, →ISBN

nounA created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.

  • They only mean that we are creatures and not God.1994 January 1, Shirley C. Guthrie, Christian Doctrine, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 169
  • Several aspects of the creature-Creator relation can be drawn from Rom 1:18–32 and other Pauline texts.2020 August 28, Samuel D. Ferguson, The Spirit and Relational Anthropology in Paul, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 98

More sentences with creature

  • The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.From the entry curious
  • The pastor preached that even the least of God’s creatures deserves freedom from needless or idle cruelty.From the entry least
  • How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?From the entry stage
  • The beaver is a social creature, not just occasionally but essentially.From the entry essentially
  • People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.From the entry lump
  • On weekends, she enjoys creature comforts like sleeping in and long baths.From the entry creature comfort
  • The floor of the cave was covered with the exuvial remains of unknown creatures.From the entry exuvial
  • All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species.From the entry humpbacked
  • People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, but in fact they are different creatures.From the entry lump together
  • Regarding us warily, the creature turned its rhinocerotic head in our direction.From the entry rhinocerotic
  • Regarding us warily, the creature turned its rhinocerine head in our direction.From the entry rhinocerine
  • There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp.From the entry generic
  • Most creatures have a will to live.From the entry will
  • I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.From the entry vile
  • The woodland creatures ran from the fire.From the entry woodland
  • A creature wholly given to brawls and wine.From the entry wholly
  • The legendary Bigfoot is said to be a manlike creature.From the entry manlike
  • My stereo is a creature comfort. As long as I have it I can relax and be happy.From the entry creature comfort
  • The word create is dieretic, whereas creature is synaeretic.From the entry diaeretic
  • Hedgehogs are needled creatures, just like porcupines.From the entry needled
  • The bee is a proverbially busy creature.From the entry proverbially
  • "Godzilla" is one of the classic creature features.From the entry creature feature
  • Du's eltin dat creature to death, boy!?From the entry elt
  • Minotaurs are zoocephalic creatures: men with bulls' heads.From the entry zoocephalic
  • This town offers wildlife tours where you can go and watch the bears, deer, wild rabbits and other creatures in their natural habitats.From the entry wildlife
  • The leech is a haematophagous creature.From the entry haematophagous
  • The earthworm is a limivorous creature.From the entry limivorous
  • The snake is a footless creature.From the entry footless
  • Baby birds are known for a propensity to imprint; they tend to imprint on whichever creatures they perceive to be their parents — including humans doing wildlife rescue!From the entry imprint
  • Snakes, worms, certain fish, and other limbless creatures are all apodous, while visibly similar creatures (such as millipedes or centipedes) use a different type of movement called a metachronal gait.From the entry apodous
  • I think this is the first time I’ve seen a diaper creature like this.2024 March 29, @shcdemolisher.bsky.social, Bluesky. From the entry diaper creature
  • Beebe referred to these never-before-seen creatures as monsters, as devils and dragons.2023, Brad Fox, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths. From the entry hyoid

Meaning of creature

  1. noun A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
  2. noun An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
  3. noun A human.

Full definition of creature

Questions about creature in a sentence

How do you use creature in a sentence?
Creature is used as a noun. For example: “The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.”
What is a short sentence with creature?
“insects and other creatures”
What does creature mean?
Creature means a living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: creature (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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