How to Use different animal in a Sentence
different animal
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To shift to a different animal metaphor, Trump remains a bull in a china shop.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2023
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The evolution of the heart in different animal species have different ways of how the heart work, but the main point of them is to contract.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
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But this was a different animal, trying to come back against Huskies instead of Owls.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
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Wrestling, of course, is a different animal than football, but Montoya believes Harston melds the two sports well.
—Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
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This year’s sightings are believed to be of a different animal.
—Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
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Each squishy is made of nontoxic rubber and comes in a different animal shape.
—Bridget Shirvell, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
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While running through this year’s Pac-12 was no easy feat − the league definitely went out with a bang in terms of depth and quality − the SEC is a different animal.
—Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
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The playoffs are a different animal, but those trends matter.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
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But that whiskey was an entirely different animal, having spent a full two years finishing in Oloroso sherry casks.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
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The soap dispenser is offered in five different animal silhouettes—duck, penguin, elephant, hippo, and whale— so your little one will be able to choose their favorite one.
—Courtney Kittel, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
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But historically, the playoffs have been a different animal for the Charlestown native.
—Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
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There is a benefit to vegetable gardening through fabric or film mulch but that’s a totally different animal and does not involve placing mulch on top of the film/fabric.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2023
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Trimming trees, on the other hand, is an entirely different animal.
—Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2023
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Monken had a strong presence during the offseason program, but training camp is a different animal as coaches evaluate players and install the scheme.
—Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
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Being able to have bigger conversations at bigger tables with people that have done this for years, maybe even decades, that’s a completely different animal.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Oct. 2023
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Although, more than 85 years earlier, the draft was an entirely different animal.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
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At home this season, the Celtics have established themselves a completely different animal.
—Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
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Biologists today have a much better idea of how different animal species are related, as well as how endangered species are.
—WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
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This dog that normally put the high in high-maintenance abruptly reinvented himself as a wholly different animal.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
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Playoff experience matters this time of year, and as good as Sacramento has been throughout the regular season, the postseason is a different animal.
—Sporting Green Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2023
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The Lunar New Year cycles through different animal zodiacs every 12 years.
—Ella Polak, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
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Private loans from banks and other commercial lenders are an entirely different animal.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
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Live captioning is an entirely different animal, and those workers use steno machines, like those used in courtrooms, to create hyperfast captions.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
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The man with the binoculars is Tim Shields, a conservation biologist whose mission concerns an entirely different animal, the desert tortoise.
—Brett Marty, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
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YouTube is a completely different animal than audio-only podcasts.
—Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
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However, standalone storage is a different animal compared to solar.
—Jason Kaminsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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Per Hanley and his co-authors, different animal species possess unique sets of photoreceptors that are sensitive to a wide range of wavelengths, from ultraviolet to the infrared, dependent on each animal's specific ecological needs.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
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Previous studies published earlier this year have demonstrated reverse aging in mice with the hopes that such a technique could be applicable to human cells, but Fedichev argues that humans are—literally and figuratively—a different animal.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
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That doesn't mean total animal populations have declined by 69 percent, however, as the report compares the relative decline of different animal populations.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
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Why would two regions in close geographic proximity have such different animal populations?
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
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