How To Use apish In A Sentence
- Lately, he has taken to apish chest-thumping in proclaiming that various individuals are ‘ducking’ and ‘backing down’ from him.
- As I was hidden by a tree, the wolf approached the fire within a few feet, and was soon tugging away at an apishamore or saddle-cloth of buffalo calfskin which lay on the ground. Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains
- That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality. Archive 2009-11-01
- A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages. THE RED ONE
- Compared to our apish ancestors, which could run only short distances, we have a more balanced head, flatter face, and smaller teeth and nose.
- She is hideously ugly, apish, dirt-caked, a pig's tail thrust in her ear lobe hole, still dripping blood. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
- If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies. The Water Babies
- When I come home late at night from banquets, from scientific societies, from social get-togethers, a small, half-trained female chimpanzee is waiting for me, and I have a good time with her in apish fashion. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
- Between the boards, of course, there was a continuous gap, which, upon first discovering it, I hailed with the blissful howling of ignorance; however, this gap was not wide enough for me to slip even my tail through it, nor was I able to widen it with all my apish strength. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
- In my previous post Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim, I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE. A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus
