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How to use monster in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Monster means a terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or fictional kind. Example: “Get away from those children, you monster!”

Examples of monster by meaning

nounA terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or fictional kind.

  • He caught Grendel's right hand, and still without rising from his bed, stopped the monster's onrush.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 29

nounA cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.

  • Get away from those children, you monster!
  • Perhaps I am a monster.2018 September 16, Mary Townsend, “Throw Your Children’s Art Away”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 19 Dec 2022
  • "Because of this monster, Jayme won't have her mom and dad at her dance recitals," Mike Closs, Jayme's uncle, said in court.2019 May 24, Joey Peters, “'Embodiment of evil': Jayme Closs kidnapper sentenced to die in prison”, in The Guardian

nounA badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.

  • Sit still, you little monster!
  • The rest of the day he heard the children playing kick-the-can, hide-and-seek, Over-Annie-Over, jacks, tops, mibs, and the sound of the little monsters in every shrub and shadow would not let him rest.

nounA prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.

  • That dude playing guitar is a monster.
  • He was a party monster.2009, Carol Ann Harris, Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac, page 216

nounSomething very or unusually large.

  • Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters.

nounA deformed animal or person (especially, a severely deformed one); in previous centuries often taken as an ill omen at...

  • The villagers were worried because the weather had been strange and several monsters had been born among the flocks and people.
  • No doubt the external form and semblance of any monster is a matter of interest, but alone it is not satisfying; nor, indeed, is it always a trustworthy indication of the most important peculiarities of the organism.1900 April, O. Charnock Bradley, “An Acardiac Monster”, in The Veterinary Journal [British Veterinary Journal], volume 1 (New Series)...
  • "Periodically, storms would bring the creeping death to the valley - drifting clouds of radio-active dust - and men would sicken and die and women give birth to monsters."1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 153

nounA bizarre or whimsical creature.

  • The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster.

adjectiveVery large; worthy of a monster.

  • He has a monster appetite.
  • I turned to Jack and said, "It's supposed to be monster."2004, Rex Pickett, Sideways, page 55
  • How do you get more monster than a monster truck?2009, Michael O'Hearn, The Kids' Guide to Monster Trucks

More sentences with monster

  • If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.From the entry party
  • Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.From the entry sea
  • Midas made everything turn to gold. He turned into a monster every full moon.From the entry turn
  • Bruce Banner turns when he is angry: he becomes the Hulk, an incredibly powerful green monster.From the entry turn
  • I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.From the entry sac
  • In the dark, the teddy bear took on the appearance of a fearsome monster.From the entry take on
  • The boy's mother reassured him that there was no monster hiding under the bed.From the entry reassure
  • The old sacrificial well is still there, but animals aren't thrown into it to appease monsters anymore.From the entry sacrificial
  • I hate walking into an unlighted room; the monsters might eat me.From the entry unlighted
  • The monsters drop health pickups when killed.From the entry drop
  • That guy can drop the bass like a monster.From the entry drop
  • He was pulled below by a sea monster.From the entry below
  • The monsters stun when you jump on them.From the entry stun
  • Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.From the entry slab
  • A demonlike monster chased them down the tunnel.From the entry demonlike
  • The monster had a long, trunklike nose.From the entry trunklike
  • Pocket aces is a monster hand in no-limit hold-'em poker.From the entry monster hand
  • In my darkened bedroom as a child, a trick of the light made my chair look like a crouching monster.From the entry trick of the light
  • His description painted you up to be a monster.From the entry paint up
  • The monster slowly reared its head.From the entry rear
  • Che Guevara remains a polarizing Marxist revolutionary, feted by some as a champion of the poor and reviled by others as a bloodthirsty monster.From the entry polarizing
  • Both our cat and the dog are spoiled monsters and beg for food every meal.2026 July 6, @chaoskat.bsky.social, Bluesky (post), archived from the original on 06 Jul 2026. From the entry spoiled
  • One of the creepiest enemy types in games and shows are the "Weeping Angel" style monsters.2025 December 14, Shaun Fulton, “How to Make a Weeping Angel AI in Unreal Engine”, in Medium. From the entry weeping angel
  • You are not getting your hands on my monster, my greatest creation to date.2024 November 11, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Laszlo's Father” (22:09 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 6…. From the entry meat puppet

Meaning of monster

  1. noun A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or fictional kind.
  2. noun A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
  3. noun A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.

Full definition of monster

Questions about monster in a sentence

How do you use monster in a sentence?
Monster is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Get away from those children, you monster!”
What is a short sentence with monster?
“He has a monster appetite.”
What does monster mean?
Monster means a terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or fictional kind.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monster (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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