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Examples of beastie in a Sentence
I've become used to sharing our cabin in the woods with all sorts of little beasties.
Recent Examples of beastie from the Web
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Her transformation from plucky tomboy moppet to bloodthirsty teen beastie is complete.
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Her transformation from plucky tomboy moppet to bloodthirsty teen beastie is complete.
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Just foolishness of course, just a story to tell, on a night when the bedsheet beasties walk the earth.
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On the other hand, the more exotically flavored fractional beasties are numbers like 3/2, 4/3, and 27/11 whose numerators are all greater than their denominators.
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The creepy beasties in the Nelson’s painting tempt the monastic St. Anthony with food, booze and gruesome thoughts.
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Better still, the wee beastie that's heavy on its hoof comes equipped with thin, glassy blue tentacles that could be the altnet saviour that some of the Scottish islands stuck in the broadband slow lane need.
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But spiders do not show any predilection for human flesh, preferring the taste of insects and another small beastie called collembola, or springtail.
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Traci Watson writes about the microscopic beasties in our houses, huge galaxies millions of light years from Earth, and everything in between.
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First Known Use of beastie
1714
beastie Synonyms
Synonyms
beast, animal, brute, creature, critterRelated Words
blastie [Scottish], varmint, vermin; biped, quadruped; carnivore, herbivore, insectivore; invertebrate, vertebrate; domestic animal, pet; feral; livestock, stockLearn More about beastie
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