How to Use beast in a Sentence

beast

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  • They were attacked by a savage beast.
  • He's a cruel, hateful beast!
  • That’s the nature of the beast with this kind of thing.
    — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • This summer, the show will for the first time be staged in the belly of the beast.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Mythosaur is less a beast or a monster, and more a sign of things to come.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The blimp is meant to look like the beast sandwich, which packs half a pound of meat.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Phoenix is a beast right now, able to win any style of play.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Among the most impressive of these new beasts were the basilosaurids.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • LeBron and the Lakers, on the other hand, are the beast.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • The nature of the beast has changed, too, with the transfer portal.
    — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • This beast at the heart of the Milky Way was first proposed in the early 1960s.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The 6-foot, 228-pound Texan has been a beast in team drills.
    — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The video shows the beast sauntering up to the front door and grabbing the bag in its mouth.
    — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Allgeier has bean been a beast in his own right with the Cougars.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • That’s sort of the nature of the beast right now for everyone.
    — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 4 May 2023
  • The new Honda Civic Type R is a front-wheel-drive beast.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Apr. 2023
  • These beasts move rapidly and tear a great deal of flesh.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Eventually, the team gets the beast out of the pool, and drags it across the wet asphalt.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 11 June 2023
  • In the background stands a ferocious beast with the bulk of a bear but the face of a big cat.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • But one thing is for certain: This drone is kind of a beast.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 1 June 2022
  • Nothing on the scale of the beasts listed above, but still, some big events.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • When the beast tired itself out, the two men made the return journey back to the truck, caiman in tow.
    — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The bad news is, the beast that awaits them in Salt Lake City is bigger than the one that just slayed them.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The beast must blink once and find us around its throat, the jugular already cut.
    — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The First Wave is a remarkable piece of reportage from the belly of the beast.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
  • He is pulled from nightmare to nightmare by the same beasts who pulled him to hell.
    — Kayti Burt, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • This dull and disposable film is a beast that needs to be put down.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Even in the wildest bush, beasts sometimes huddle for warmth.
    — Jessica Furseth, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Mayfield’s contract — five years left at $3.5 million per — is a beast for a third-pair guy who’s 32 and injury-prone.
    — Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In a desperate move to protect his empire, Diego unleashes his own giant sea predators to take down the beast.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025

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