How to Use beastie in a Sentence

beastie

noun

• I've become used to sharing our cabin in the woods with all sorts of little beasties.
• The duo just have to avoid hungry beasties and climb to the top of a mountain several dozen miles away.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
• Just foolishness of course, just a story to tell, on a night when the bedsheet beasties walk the earth.
  — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Just foolishness of course, just a story to tell, on a night when the bedsheet beasties walk the earth.
  — Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2015
• It has also been called the wee beastie; this is Scotland, after all.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 11 July 2016
• With the strange caws and showy displays, these beasties provide a lot of the movie’s easygoing pleasures.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2016
• The creepy beasties in the Nelson’s painting tempt the monastic St. Anthony with food, booze and gruesome thoughts.
  — David Frese, kansascity.com, 28 June 2017
• Who needs daddy issues when there are killer beasties and walls of water closing in?
  — Noel Murray, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
• Ghosties and ghoulies and Stephen King beasties: TV has become a hellscape of our literal and metaphorical fears.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2019
• Should there be a funeral for a beastie, with prayers and a choir of giant rabbits dressed in blue velvet jackets?
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The winning beastie will be turned into a real Folk, available for download from the PlayStation store.
  — Susan Arendt, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2007
• Mario then teams up with Princess Peach to save her kingdom from Bowser, a fire-breathing beastie who commands a vast army of Koopas, who are turtles.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• In other words, the reason electrons, protons, and neutrons have mass is because of this Higgs beastie.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2012
• Better still, the wee beastie that's heavy on its hoof comes equipped with thin, glassy blue tentacles that could be the altnet saviour that some of the Scottish islands stuck in the broadband slow lane need.
  — Kelly Fiveash, Ars Technica, 18 June 2017
• At a pro-ferret rally in Balboa Park, one of his beasties either nipped or accidently scratched a little girl who grabbed it.
  — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• There is also an explosion of what look like giant grape vines (also wood-like), out of the pods of which erupt a crew of beasties: a gnashing cyclops, a gnashing griffin, and more gnashers.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
• And its horror artwork comes with an array of suitably nasty beasties, plus more pentagrams than a Slayer concert.
  — Owen Duffy, Ars Technica, 22 June 2019
• Happily, the tuner tots at AMG also made modifications that left the test car handling remarkably well for a 5,858-pound beastie boy.
  — Al Haas, Philly.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• The trouble is that these wee beasties have a mind of their own (so to speak), whereas the micromotors that power these new microgears have movement that's much more predictable and controllable.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2016
• Her transformation from plucky tomboy moppet to bloodthirsty teen beastie is complete.
  — vanityfair.com, 17 July 2017
• Zombieland introduces some variations on zombie lore by having its flesh-eating beasties be speedy and smart.
  — Noel Murray, The Verge, 14 June 2019
• Traci Watson writes about the microscopic beasties in our houses, huge galaxies millions of light years from Earth, and everything in between.
  — Traci Watson, National Geographic, 16 May 2017
• Another addition in the v17.10 Cosmic Summer update is a new beastie.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• But spiders do not show any predilection for human flesh, preferring the taste of insects and another small beastie called collembola, or springtail.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
• But spiders do not show any predilection for human flesh, preferring the taste of insects and another small beastie called collembola, or springtail.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 22 May 2017
• Strange nautical beasties — a mermaid, an octopus — keep washing up in the surf of Ephraim’s mind, awakening in him a dark, primordial energy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• The revelation that the onetime Who executive producer houses a beastie among his bushes was made by Karen Gillan.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 July 2019
• The title beastie at the heart of this musical fairy tale is a scaly, life-size, anthropomorphic saltwater crocodile who occupies the attic of an Upper West Side brownstone and doesn’t talk…at all.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
• Earth has been overrun by large, skittering, carnivorous beasties.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Portuallo, of Parkland, says homeowners can control the beasties by regularly inspecting yards for iguana burrows, often found next to seawalls, and collapsing the holes and adding dirt.
  — Ellie Rushing, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 June 2018

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024