How To Use Menagerie In A Sentence
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The latest addition to the museum's menagerie of dinosaurs - a cast of a full-size triceratops skeleton, ready for action.
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I have a feeling from a half remembered lecture from a zillion years ago, that Rossetti used to slide naked down the bannisters, and kept a menagerie in his house.
Desperate Romantics
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She was wonderful with animals and impossibly tenderhearted; every year she collected a menagerie of injured or abandoned creatures.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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The creative part was turning this menagerie into a new piece of music without using anything other than those sounds.
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The menagerie also included giraffes and camels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The newfound vents are home to a menagerie of creatures adapted to darkness and crushing water pressures, species that thrive despite waters volcanically heated to near boiling.
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Many are attracted by the prospect of observing a menagerie of erotic freaks and abject ferals.
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Nobody wanted their little princesses to live the life of the great French tragedienne, with her denial of moral constraint, her ridiculous traveling menagerie and her monumental myth-making.
Actress, Seductress
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I didn't move, but sat against the mast running my finger along the cut on my foot and looking vacantly at the green-brown wavelets parting before us, the boulders and cedars along the shore and cloud menagerie overhead.
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He portrayed visions of animal menageries, fairies, and devils, derived from fables and mythology.
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Festivals attract a strange but intriguing menagerie of people.
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He succeeded in mating a cow with the menagerie's bison, but the ensuing pregnancy came to a disastrous end.
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However, the problem of moving their menagerie of animals over east was starting to be a concern as trucking them over wasn't an option, especially for the camels.
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The head of the indie label and his menagerie's techno most recently caught the eye of the heralded Terminal M label.
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The cash will also help her to feed the menagerie of rescued animals that she looks after at her Market Weighton home.
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Elly turned to Jade's companion, her jaw dropping as she caught sight of the strange menagerie.
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Or Dr. Frankenstein concocting from his menagerie of elemental particles a wondrous creation but one that could, in an instant, mutate into a destructive monster, severing pinkies, arms, perhaps even torsos.
The “45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet” Fountain
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Menagerie , Laura Wingfield suffers severe inferiority complex caused by her physical disability.
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His menagerie included scores of elephants, lions and tigers, many of whom he had raised himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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I played Jim in The Glass Menagerie and then went on to stage-manage a production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
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Instead, it's filled with a menagerie of idiots doing stupid things.
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So there's nothing else for it,' said the Countess, sniffing at the frowzy air coming from the entrance to the Royal Menagerie.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Rena may have, at one time, empathized with the menagerie that had taken root in her home.
All God's Creatures
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In a sense, the story told in Lady Vengeance is as old as time, but the director gives it a refreshing dynamism by incorporating a menagerie of rich characters.
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Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons.
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He is cooking a menagerie of animals in a vast cage contraption that hangs over a fire pit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mayo and I opted to climb Glass Menagerie, a pillar of solid ice that spills down in frosted swirls like icing on a cake.
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We also met her menagerie of animals, 2 dogs, a cat, and a hamster.
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Hey, Beethoven: Get a full-time job, a part-time business, a spouse, a few kids, and a menagerie of pets and wait till you see how many symphonies you can crank out!
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But how can we make sense of Easter among the menagerie of cutesie animals from chocolate bilbies, wombats and rabbits to milk chocolate footballs and all kinds of eggs?
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The gardens contained heated pools for his menagerie of alligators and tropical turtles.
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In Oakland , where backyard menageries and D. I. Y. charcuterie are the new garage band, the term "urban homesteading" doesn't need an explanation.
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Zoos have moved from being menageries of animals caged for human entertainment.
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Terroir extends beyond the gustative and into the olfactive, an important fact to remember when navigating among sensory menageries.
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A thousand attics and flea markets must have been raided to yield the album's menagerie of castaway ukuleles, autoharps, Marxophones, Aqualins and peck horns.
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Its 252 leaves includes two full-page miniatures and thousands of exquisite marginalia embracing a whole menagerie of birds and beasties, monsters, fables, grotesques and vignettes of daily life.
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As soon as you enter the car park you are greeted by a menagerie of farm animals, many of them rare breeds including Soay, Ryeland and Whitefaced Woodland sheep.
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She was wonderful with animals and impossibly tenderhearted; every year she collected a menagerie of injured or abandoned creatures.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Sadly, someone has to keep the home fires burning while we're away, make hay to see us through next winter, tend the menagerie, re-point the house, restore the windmill and keep working through the summer, as well as run Jake around tetrathlons and numerous other competitions.
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The crucified menagerie was alive at the beginning of the installation.
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Locked inside this menagerie of failed comic bits are attempts at real anger, sadness, pathos, broad sight gags and genuine rock and roll metal moves.
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Trapped, not by a zoo collector but by his own brainy brilliance, he has set himself up in a huge restless menagerie where he is in constant danger of cracking under the strain.
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Now, added to the natural body odors of the tight-packed building was a whole new menagerie of effluvia generated by excitement and fatigue.
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A regular menagerie appeared in barn and shed, for pet animals were allowed.
Little Women
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He acted as bear-leader and buffoon, villain and hero, alternately in public; while in private he was cook, drudge, messman, and menagerie manager for the rest of the party, for animals of some sort invariably formed part of the attractions of the troupe.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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From their loft space, they recorded on old analog equipment with a menagerie of instruments that would make any instrument fetishist plotz.
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There are also great white apes, deadly plant men and a menagerie of other exotic creatures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Historical apparatuses, from the perspectograph through to today's high-tech menagerie, are on display.
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About six weeks before, the beasts who were about three years old and half-grown, were taken from the Tower menagerie to the animals' hospital in Lytham Road South Shore, for a change.
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I've removed 'aileron' because it is not italicised & has an obvious pronunciation; similarly with menagerie.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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The presence of one of the 'Hessians' at Mrs. Dumars 'house gave it much the same attraction that is attached to a menagerie.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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There seems to be no stopping the menagerie of British pets in cyberspace.
Times, Sunday Times
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These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
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I sometimes think she is a sort of living phenomenon intended to represent all the passions -- a genuine Pandora's box -- a piece of patchwork made up of the odds and ends of all animals in creation -- a sort of menagerie in herself, where the dove and the kite, the serpent and the sparrow, the gilded butterfly and the unsightly bat, the gluttonous sloth and the air-feeding chamelion, are all exhibited.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
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Kim Nicolini lives in Tucson Arizona with her partner Charlie, daughter Skylar and menagerie of pets and critters.
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Here, we saw a menagerie of farm animals and other small creatures at close quarters, too close when it came to the rats, which scurried along a run beneath our feet, and a tame jackdaw, called Jack, which decided to use my head as a perch.
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In a time of barbarous cruelty, the human menagerie forms the backdrop to our story.
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Russia - Inna Kashnikova found her calling during a fourth-grade trip to a factory in this picturesque town that produces matryoshki, the wooden nesting dolls that are synonymous Swedish unit known for its family cars, was rescued Tuesday by a consortium led by Koenigsegg Automotive AB, a tiny luxury carmaker which produces industry in India, best described as a menagerie of related business streams coming together to ...
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Scientists have been altering DNA a generation, producing a menagerie of genetically engineered plants and animals.
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Their lightning-fast delivery of three-chord tunes, and lyrical menagerie of punks, runts, brats, loudmouths, and jungle queens create the illusion of dumb simplicity.
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Other finds at the site show that Ardipithecus lived alongside a menagerie of animals, including antelope, rhinos, monkeys, giraffes and hippos.
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It had lakes and lush vegetation that was home to a menagerie of strange beasts including the Columbian mammoth and other huge herbivores such as ground sloths, bison and camels.
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A whole menagerie came to life to see, but more importantly to help, Emily play.
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Considered as Tennessee Williams' first well-known book as well as the masterpiece in American drama history, The Glass Menagerie received wide attention from the critics.
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Some communities, like Boston and Atlanta, became so enraged at the poor care of animals in their municipal menageries that they demanded their city zoos to shut down or revamp, which Zoo Atlanta did to national acclaim.
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Now he has his own football club and 300 animals in a menagerie in his back garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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Commentary bus tours run through it and there's a Skyfari chair lift that offers you aerial views of the menagerie.
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He is a ‘country boy at heart’, a farmer's son from just outside the Lanarkshire town, who grew up among a bizarre menagerie of animals that he refers to as ‘a crazy sort of petting zoo’ and that include two ostriches.
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In a sense, this private menagerie replicates the oldest of human/animal relationships which was the aristocratic privilege of ownership that was the prevalent model until the French Revolution.
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She is what I call distressingly good; one doesn't want to be treated like a wild beast in a menagerie, and to be every now and then stirred up with a long stick.
Sowing and Reaping
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He said: ‘The Dangerous Animals Act set stringent regulations on those who wished to keep exotic pets in private menageries.’
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It WAS a menagerie of garmented bipeds that looked something like humans and more like beasts, and to complete the picture, brass-buttoned keepers kept order among them when they snarled too fiercely.
A VISION OF THE NIGHT
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Through the cavity in the wall, the whole menagerie is on display: fridge, stove, coffee maker, plates, teapot, oven mitts, and fruits in a bowl.
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They are too rare and valuable a bird to be hawked about with the rest of your menagerie.
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Across the street is a place where pretty petite men in sad, grey clothing sit amidst women so colorful they are a menagerie of flamingoes and toucans and macaws.
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The Johannesburg Zoo has a new pair of animals in the menagerie - a two-ton statue of two buffaloes now stands next to the zoo's central lake and near the elephant and lemur enclosures.
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A regular menagerie appeared in barn and shed, for pet animals were allowed.
Little Women
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The very word conjures a mental menagerie of grotesque caricatures.
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As animal lovers, they had a menagerie of creatures on their property.
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At the left were more attractions: another menagerie, a heap of ostensible gold representing the five milliards paid by France, a gallery of astonished wax soldiers representing the Franco-Prussian war, a cook-shop with "mythologic" confectionery.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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When this busy artist is not sculpting in her studio in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she participates in local cattle roundups during the spring and fall and helps her husband tend to a menagerie of animals at their ranchland home.
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Our lead character, Victor Mons, is a painter whose most recent collection is titled Monstruary: “a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.”
2010 March 31 « The BookBanter Blog
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The father of ten is well known for his menagerie of rare creatures including tigers and lions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The author has endowed our culture with a menagerie of role models.
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Circuses will also have to find other animals to complete their menagerie after the adoption of the bill.
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So there's nothing else for it,' said the Countess, sniffing at the frowzy air coming from the entrance to the Royal Menagerie.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
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He wanted to take Dora at once to the menagerie, but I represented the inexpedience of their taking her about with them to the horse - fair afterwards, and made Eustace perceive that it would not do for
My Young Alcides
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So that she could play at being a countrywoman at Versailles, Louis XV provided her with a hermitage comprising a pavilion, a menagerie, a pasture, dairy and kitchen garden.
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Suddenly, she realises the family neglected to mention the menagerie of animals that need feeding.
The Sun
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He solved the Chelsi problem by having her noisily eaten by a Stygian panther in the lab menagerie.
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You were on a break, and I was playing with that whatchamacallit, the menagerie display?
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Any movie featuring a rat leaping from a toilet to attack, or a sloppy building superintendent delivering a soliloquy on animal rights to his menagerie of pets, ranks up there with one of the campy creature classics of all time.
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Researchers have been delving into the history of the royal menagerie, using animal remains to reveal the secrets of medieval lions once locked up in the Tower.
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A menagerie of Bradford animals has had a starring role in the latest Harry Potter film.
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1944-Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" was first performed publicly, at the Civic Theatre in Chicago.
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Inside, the mounted menagerie includes a duck, a pheasant, a raccoon, a brown bear and a two-headed calf, who are kept company by three unstuffed but very old cats.
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It's impossible to turn a corner without confronting a menagerie of stuffed animals, plucked from freezing forests.
The Sun
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One day it happens that a careless jailer leaves his keys in the doors of this menagerie, and the wild beasts rampage with savage roars through the horrified town.
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Some larger menageries house animals in small, barren cages that in no way encourage visitors to respect wildlife; nor do they educate, facilitate research, or help with species preservation.
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In the psychic menagerie of Bion and Klein, Beckett may also have found hints for the protohuman organisms, the worms and bodiless heads in pots, that populate his various underworlds.
The Making of Samuel Beckett
