BEAST in a Sentence

Learn BEAST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
201 example sentences for BEAST, such as:
1. A man without reason is a beast in season.
2. Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
3. Local people live in fear of this unknown sex beast.
4. They might be dried meat from some queer beast, Jim.
5. In the animal realm, the lion is the king of beasts.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BEAST
beast
 n.  a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
 n.  a cruelly rapacious person
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  The pained animal's voice rasped on Scarlett's nerves until she was tempted to stop and untie the beast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  A damned mule, she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  You are nothing but a drunken beast who's been with bad women so long that you can't understand anything else but badness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
4  At home she wondered if the little beast might not be suggesting himself as a rival to Erik, but that abysmal bedragglement she would not consider.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn, pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6  They might be dried meat from some queer beast, Jim.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
7  It took but a few moments to release the gases pent up in the poor beast, and the two women heard the rush of wind and saw the roan visibly diminish in girth.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
8  But Prince was a knowing little beast, and she grew fond of him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
9  At first he was like a wild beast that has glutted itself; he was in a dull stupor of satisfaction.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  When night fell he was pacing up and down his cell like a wild beast that breaks its teeth upon the bars of its cage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  It would have been quite intolerable, staying in a cell with this wild beast, but for the fact that all day long the prisoners were put at work breaking stone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  Then Jurgis fought like a wild beast to get into the big Harrison Street police station, and slept down in a corridor, crowded with two other men upon a single step.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
13  As every vehicle and each beast of burden was occupied by the sick and wounded, Cora had decided to endure the fatigues of a foot march, rather than interfere with their comforts.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  His uneasiness was in no degree diminished when he perceived the beast rolling along their path, and following their footsteps.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
15  The beast still continued its rolling, and apparently untiring movements, though its ludicrous attempt to imitate the melody of David ceased the instant the latter abandoned the field.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
Example Sentence:
1  The duke told him to make himself free and easy, and if anybody ever come meddling around, he must hop out of the wigwam, and carry on a little, and fetch a howl or two like a wild beast, and he reckoned they would light out and leave him alone.
2  It's a classic case of survival of the fittest and the fight for space between man and beast.
3  The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'
4  As docile as he seems today, that old lion was once a ferocious, snarling beast.
5  "Now, sir, what did you want to treat that poor dumb beast so, for?" "I done it out of pity for him -- because he hadn't any aunt."
6  He dies like a beast who has done no good while he lived.
7  A man without reason is a beast in season.
8  We shall defend ourselves to the last breath of man and beast.
9  Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
10  Local people live in fear of this unknown sex beast.
11  Children are fascinated by the idea of gigantic beasts called dinosaurs roaming the earth before humans even existed.
12  In the animal realm, the lion is the king of beasts.
13  In Gulliver's Travels, Swift portrays an image of humanity as vile, degraded beasts; for this reason, various critics consider him a misanthrope.
14  For she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things.
15  The guards were sadistic beasts and their leader was the devil incarnate.