How to Use yeti in a Sentence
yeti
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The wild man of the snows, the glacier spirit, the abominable snowman...the yeti.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2017
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And there’s enough soft, slim and opaque noodles to weave a yeti costume from.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 15 Feb. 2022
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The only problem is there’s only one yeti in the world.
—Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 22 June 2017
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So instead of stalling out, the Fat E-5 will crawl up and over roots, rocks, and icy patches like a yeti.
—Parker Hall, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
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Drambuie grew into a 115-pound blond bruiser with the thick coat of a yeti.
—Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
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Even Rihanna wore a pair of yeti boots from Saint Laurent in 2017.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2021
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While most of us mere mortals are wearing mom jeans and crop tops, Billie's out here in neon ski masks and furry yeti pants.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 26 June 2019
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The trio set out on new adventures alongside their yeti friend, Everest.
—Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
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The trio set out on new adventures alongside their yeti friend, Everest.
—Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
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The former is a white-knuckle roller coaster ride through the Himalayas to the base of Mount Everest, where a ferocious yeti awaits.
—Atlanta Life, ajc, 4 May 2017
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So interest in the yeti has persisted both in pop culture and among researchers.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2017
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That’s the only yeti to be found in the script, except obliquely, perhaps, in its endorsement of Rousseau’s concept of the noble savage.
—Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
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By far the most entertaining theory is that the party was attacked by a yeti.
—Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
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The Matterhorn simulates an Alpine sled hurtling down a mountain while trying to avoid a yeti trying to capture the sled.
—Lauren M. Johnson and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020
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Everyone knows somebody who has glimpsed a yeti, albeit from a distance.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
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These people set up camera traps for the Sasquatch, examine goat carcasses looking for signs of the chupacabra, or hunting for a yeti on the slopes of the Himalayas.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2018
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Facebook's yeti campaign is just one of many design strategies the social network has used to guide users to click or tap on a certain button.
—Tracey Lien, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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Three years ago when Facebook Messenger's users opened the app on an Android device, they were greeted by an adorable cartoon yeti.
—Tracey Lien, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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The video shows how the pilot program works: With a pet yeti — a Tibetan term for an abominable snowman — your valuables are always protected.
—Max Londberg, kansascity, 22 June 2017
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One of the most exciting sea dwellers that has made the Endurance its home is what some experts believe to be a yeti crab, a species of blind deep-sea crabs with hairs along their legs, earning them their nickname.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2022
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Photographs and casts of the yeti footprint are consistent -- a very odd, broad primate foot -- and so are the sight records, most of which come from the populous Sherpa country of eastern Nepal.
—oregonlive.com, 2 July 2019
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Nature lovers will appreciate the kangaroo and platypus coins, while there is even a spot for the yowie, a mythical creature said to be similar to a yeti.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
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Devine’s homage to the old-school variety show then climaxed with a full marching band, a yeti with confetti and a stilt-walking Larry King impersonator.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
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There were reports again of that political yeti, the undecided voter, but this time, no one really fell for it.
—John McDonnell, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
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The potential truth of what really killed nine hikers in the remote Russian mountains in 1959 may be far stranger than the conspiracy theories—a yeti, anyone?—floated to date.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
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There's a yeti kidnapping, time travel, a trip to the moon, and a tussle with a team of villainous rivals who are far more civilized and likable than our protagonists.
—Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
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The story of Migo (voiced by Channing Tatum), an enthusiastic yeti who lives an idyllic life in his Himalayan mountain-top village, unfolds beat for beat in the most predictable way.
—Brent McKnight, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
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Unexpectedly zoom backwards into the dark, alternating between hanging upside down and looping back and forth while shadows of the yeti loom.
—Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 4 July 2017
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Circumstantial evidence suggested that the yeti crabs were not just tolerating their arm bacteria, but eating them.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2011
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