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Examples of gorilla in a Sentence
She hired some gorilla as her bodyguard.
the loan shark sent a couple of gorillas to “convince” him to pay up
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As the key detail to even the most dramatic hair looks (as seen on FKA Twigs), the strong-hold styling product is used daily with brands like Moco de Gorila’s Gorilla Snot Gel (not to be mistaken for gorilla glue) and Got2B Glued Styling Gel as beauty supply store front runners.
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India Espy-Jones, Essence, 11 Apr. 2024
The movie follows Patel’s character, Kid, a young man who fights nightly in an underground fight club while wearing a gorilla mask.
—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
The baby gorilla’s arrival was made possible under the international conservation breeding program for western lowland gorillas at London Zoo, which provides the preservation of a healthy population of the gorilla subspecies, per the release.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
Get up-close with gorillas in Rwanda Photo: Getty Images
Few experiences are as soul-stirring as an eye-to-eye encounter with a wild gorilla, and Rwanda’s densely forested Volcanoes National Park is one of the best places to meet these fascinating creatures up close.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
Courtesy Fort Worth Zoo A newborn gorilla at the Fort Worth Zoo has been getting around-the-clock care since her dramatic arrival early this year.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
In the years since that encounter, Cartmill and her colleagues have analyzed 75 hours of footage from two zoos of chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas exhibiting similarly impish behavior.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
Unfortunately, the attempts were unsuccessful, and the staff made the difficult decision to send the two-and-a-half-month-old gorilla elsewhere.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
This kid gorilla leads Kong to a tribe of scraggly hostile apes who are living in a slave society presided over by the Skar King, an evil ape with blotchy red hair who’s as tall as Kong and wields a skeletal bone whip that looks like it was fashioned out of the spine of a sea serpent.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
India Espy-Jones, Essence, 11 Apr. 2024
The movie follows Patel’s character, Kid, a young man who fights nightly in an underground fight club while wearing a gorilla mask.
—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
The baby gorilla’s arrival was made possible under the international conservation breeding program for western lowland gorillas at London Zoo, which provides the preservation of a healthy population of the gorilla subspecies, per the release.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
Get up-close with gorillas in Rwanda Photo: Getty Images
Few experiences are as soul-stirring as an eye-to-eye encounter with a wild gorilla, and Rwanda’s densely forested Volcanoes National Park is one of the best places to meet these fascinating creatures up close.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
Courtesy Fort Worth Zoo A newborn gorilla at the Fort Worth Zoo has been getting around-the-clock care since her dramatic arrival early this year.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
In the years since that encounter, Cartmill and her colleagues have analyzed 75 hours of footage from two zoos of chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas exhibiting similarly impish behavior.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
Unfortunately, the attempts were unsuccessful, and the staff made the difficult decision to send the two-and-a-half-month-old gorilla elsewhere.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
This kid gorilla leads Kong to a tribe of scraggly hostile apes who are living in a slave society presided over by the Skar King, an evil ape with blotchy red hair who’s as tall as Kong and wields a skeletal bone whip that looks like it was fashioned out of the spine of a sea serpent.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Gorilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gorilla. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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gorilla
noun
go·ril·la
gə-ˈril-ə 
: a typically black ape of equatorial Africa that is much larger but stands less erect than the related chimpanzee
Etymology
derived from Greek Gorillai, a name used by ancient explorers for what they thought was a tribe of hairy women in Africa
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