How to Use monkey in a Sentence

monkey

1 of 2 noun

• I've got this monkey on my back, and going to detox is the only way to get it off.
• He's quite a cheeky little monkey, isn't he?
• Punch the monkey ran away with our hearts.
  — Kyle Melnick The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 15 Mar. 2026
• Punch the monkey can't catch a break.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
• Mom comes to us in the form of a monkey and cups us in her hands.
  — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• Watch videos of Punch the monkey above.
  — Kate Perez, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
• Rhesus monkeys spend time in both trees and on the ground.
  — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
• The monkey has had a city pet license since the spring.
  — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
• The rally monkey was all the rage.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
• The vervet monkey is not an anomaly.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
• The monkey took off from the owner.
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
• Broder worked for me the same way a zookeeper works for the monkeys.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Nov. 2025
• Broder worked for me the same way as zookeeper works for the monkeys.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
• Langur monkeys screeched from the canopy above.
  — Kate McMahon, AFAR Media, 13 Aug. 2025
• The monkey sits, swinging its leg.
  — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• Many fans now travel to the zoo to see the monkey in person.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
• The same is true for other mammals such as monkeys and mice.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2026
• Each monkey had kept a piece of the little glider.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
• But getting there this time was no monkey off of Dixon's back.
  — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2023
• The monkeys have bright orange fur on their limbs, tails and heads but gray fur on their backs.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
• Music plays a key role in bringing the monkeys’ world to life.
  — Jd Linville, Variety, 27 June 2026
• Five of the eight monkeys were recovered at the scene of the crash.
  — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
• And so do some primates, such as bonobos and snub-nosed monkeys.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
• Black players are still taunted with racial slurs and monkey sounds.
  — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• The monkey’s fangs punctured the boy's lungs and other parts of his body.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
• Far away, across the tops of the trees, is a group of dark-bodied, long-haired up-monkeys.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Always that monkey on your back saying do it, do it, just have fun and f— it.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
• Lee did a monkey flip into a Styles Clash.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• The monkeys are believed to be vervet monkeys.
  — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
• The same type of cut was found in the area housing the zoo's langurs, a small breed of monkey.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023

monkey

2 of 2 verb

• Why do thriving sports feel the need to monkey around with their product?
  — George Vecsey, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
• Wayne Newton‘s pet likely won’t be monkeying around any longer.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• To make matters more confusing, Apple monkeyed around with the names of the new stuff.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• To make matters more confusing, Apple monkeyed around with the names of the new stuff.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• But there’s no stopping the construction now, so signing Kaepernick would not monkey-wrench the stadium.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
• There’s very little Congress can do that people take more personally than monkeying around with healthcare.
  — Cathleen Decker, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
• Vieux Carre home owners and hoteliers have traditionally applied grease to the poles to prevent such monkeying around.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Last year our smokestacks and tailpipes puffed out more than 60 trillion pounds of the greenhouse gas, monkeying with the planet’s climate and acidifying the oceans.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
• Many generations of monkeying around ensued, aided by the relative lack of natural predators (other than alligators, which often eat young, naïve primates on the riverbanks).
  — Tamara Lush, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2017
• Again, negotiators might monkey around a bit with the formula for how rapidly the Obamacare Medicaid expansion is killed and how deeply the long-term Medicaid cap would bite.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 22 June 2017