How to Use different animal in a Sentence

different animal

noun

• To shift to a different animal metaphor, Trump remains a bull in a china shop.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2023
• 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
• But this was a different animal, trying to come back against Huskies instead of Owls.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
• 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
• This year’s sightings are believed to be of a different animal.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
• Each squishy is made of nontoxic rubber and comes in a different animal shape.
  — Bridget Shirvell, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
• 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
• The playoffs are a different animal, but those trends matter.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• But historically, the playoffs have been a different animal for the Charlestown native.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Trimming trees, on the other hand, is an entirely different animal.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Although, more than 85 years earlier, the draft was an entirely different animal.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
• At home this season, the Celtics have established themselves a completely different animal.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Lunar New Year cycles through different animal zodiacs every 12 years.
  — Ella Polak, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Private loans from banks and other commercial lenders are an entirely different animal.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• YouTube is a completely different animal than audio-only podcasts.
  — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
• However, standalone storage is a different animal compared to solar.
  — Jason Kaminsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Why would two regions in close geographic proximity have such different animal populations?
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024