How to Use bestiary in a Sentence

bestiary

noun

• The great bestiaries, from Herodotus to Audubon, are all embellished.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 9 Dec. 2012
• Kingdom Animalia is a sprawling, modern-day take on the medieval bestiary.
  — Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
• The most common beings in her bestiary are a variety of mer-creatures, ranging from the regal merlion (and cub) to the comical merchicken.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• Medieval bestiaries were books that served as compendiums of creatures both fantastic and real.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Another image, from a 13th-century Franco-Flemish bestiary, shows a long-haired Samson prying open the jaws of a lion.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• These oddities—and undoubtedly many others theorists have yet to even dream of—fill out our universe’s bizarre stellar bestiary.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2018
• This season made great use of new flying monsters, but at the same time the Upside-Down is a conceptual blank check to develop an entire bestiary of nightmare-inducing creatures.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• These demons are magical creatures inspired by world mythologies, not unlike Rowling’s own bestiary of fantastic beasts.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 31 Aug. 2018
• Here, reducing the medieval bestiary to a contemporary footnote makes for a listless conclusion to an otherwise strong and compelling show.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
• In the galleries The Getty Museum is currently the site of a beastly exhibition about bestiary, the medieval manuscripts that depicted fantastic creatures (unicorns and beavers, oh my!).
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2019
• The result is a wildly imaginative bestiary that transports its viewer to a different realm, offering a welcome reprieve from our current one.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• His journal, which extends beyond his cactus garden to record encounters with owls and geckos, donkeys and spiders, moths and tortoises, can seem like a medieval bestiary, a nature chronicle with the vividness of a dream.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• The Clickers – the most iconic creature / nightmare fuel from the bestiary – become exponentially more terrifying when their echolocation clicking feels like it’s brushing the hair of your neck.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2022
• And beyond these, the show’s bestiary of Main Street America, its hapless parents and inept leaders, its weird small businesses and petty local politics, its moral pretensions and amoral vanities do ring true, however exaggerated.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• The formal exuberance of this modern bestiary is exhilarating.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• Here’s a bacterium whose genetic material includes genes from a diverse bestiary: Icelandic hyperthermophiles, petunias, yeast, perhaps a bit of bioluminescent jellyfish.
  — Sophia Roosth, Slate Magazine, 25 Apr. 2017
• Unruliness, perversity, pigheadedness—psychologists have long been interested in this bestiary of paradoxical thought and action.
  — Paul Bloom, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024