How to Use bestiary in a Sentence

bestiary

noun

• The great bestiaries, from Herodotus to Audubon, are all embellished.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 9 Dec. 2012
• The one-eyed humans and Sciopods with umbrella feet, the whole exotic bestiary.
  — Tishani Doshi, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
• Though his catalogue of catastrophe is real, what one most remembers are the beasts in his bestiary.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Medieval bestiaries were books that served as compendiums of creatures both fantastic and real.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• Kingdom Animalia is a sprawling, modern-day take on the medieval bestiary.
  — Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
• These oddities—and undoubtedly many others theorists have yet to even dream of—fill out our universe’s bizarre stellar bestiary.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2018
• These demons are magical creatures inspired by world mythologies, not unlike Rowling’s own bestiary of fantastic beasts.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 31 Aug. 2018
• The most common beings in her bestiary are a variety of mer-creatures, ranging from the regal merlion (and cub) to the comical merchicken.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• For the house’s third collaboration with the artists, Viard wanted Veilhan to recreate the apartment’s bestiary.
  — Allyson Portee, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
• Here, reducing the medieval bestiary to a contemporary footnote makes for a listless conclusion to an otherwise strong and compelling show.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
• The result is a wildly imaginative bestiary that transports its viewer to a different realm, offering a welcome reprieve from our current one.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• The formal exuberance of this modern bestiary is exhilarating.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• This season made great use of new flying monsters, but at the same time the Upside-Down is a conceptual blank check to develop an entire bestiary of nightmare-inducing creatures.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• Another image, from a 13th-century Franco-Flemish bestiary, shows a long-haired Samson prying open the jaws of a lion.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• His journal, which extends beyond his cactus garden to record encounters with owls and geckos, donkeys and spiders, moths and tortoises, can seem like a medieval bestiary, a nature chronicle with the vividness of a dream.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Confidential, precious and poetic qualities infuse her creations that portray a dreamlike universe, from fantastical bestiary to enchanted mineral forest.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• Unruliness, perversity, pigheadedness—psychologists have long been interested in this bestiary of paradoxical thought and action.
  — Paul Bloom, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
• That creature, in turn, can be traced back to medieval bestiaries as a type of whale called aspidochelone, first mentioned in a 2nd-century CE Alexandrian manuscript called the Physiologus.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
• Penned in the 12th century, the Aberdeen Bestiary’s entry for beavers exhibits the classic medieval bestiary components of observation, imagination and allegory.
  — Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
• And beyond these, the show’s bestiary of Main Street America, its hapless parents and inept leaders, its weird small businesses and petty local politics, its moral pretensions and amoral vanities do ring true, however exaggerated.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020