How to Use creature in a Sentence

creature

noun
  • The poor creature had no way to get home.
  • She's a creature of rare beauty.
  • A social creature by nature, he loves working with people.
  • Few living creatures can survive without water.
  • All these creatures are here to stay.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As long as anger flows, the creature thrives.
    Joe Palaggi, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Now, any creature that eats rats is a friend of mine.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The creature walks — and cries.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But what set this creature apart were its teeth and skull.
    Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • And then the creature comes for Jack.
    ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
  • What type of creature is Chilly?
    Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Dick looked like some creature from Mars.
    Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • A lot of my cues came through the creature itself.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Sperm whales have the largest brains of any creature on Earth.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And these babies can be quite scary creatures.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
  • All creatures have the right to firm boundaries!
    Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • Zeus later placed the creature in the stars.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2026
  • To do this, the pair used a Minecraft creature known as a slime.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 May 2026
  • There doesn’t need to be a full moon for this creature to arrive.
    Tanya Fedak, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • And that's all thanks to a cameo from a certain eight-legged creature.
    Andrea Towers, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Each creature took time to sniff, bite and slither around the shiny prize.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Such a creature of the theater.
    Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Some of these creatures are oysters, shrimp, fish, and blue crabs.
    Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Red gloves, scarf and, of course, all the blood making the creature.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Victor doesn’t just fear the creature’s mate.
    Kennedy French, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
  • What creature is this riddle about?
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Grogu That tiny creature is Grogu.
    Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
  • Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • And so, somehow, was the creature.
    Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • All those giant creatures milling about.
    Noah Lederman, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2026

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