How to Use simian in a Sentence

simian

1 of 2 adjective

• Those Sundays writhing on the couch with him were our simian language of love.
  — Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
• Here, glass walls allow the room to flood with the sunset; bathers are only at risk of simian peeping toms.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
• And the hotel’s corner tower bears its own share of bizarre, simian-like faces sticking out their tongues.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2020
• The police chief began to field tips about simian sightings as far away as Florida.
  — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
• Bá populates most pages with simian bystanders in a way that would stretch any special-effects budget.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 June 2022
• Brash simian Robbie is a lot more fun to watch than soppy simian Robbie.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
• In the simian market hypothesis, on the other hand, investors’ moods swing—the same way apes swing from trees.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• Humanity has been decimated by a simian virus and may not survive.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• With shocking strength, this simian foe sends a tree trunk right through your chopper, before going on to crush, stomp and bellow his way through your friends for the next two hours.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2017
• Millar adds that the team briefly considered leaning into simian movement, but that was quickly dismissed.
  — Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
• However, simian monkey viruses were found lurking in those monkey kidney cells.
  — National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2017
• In one photo in this very small archive, I'm seen as a toddler in my mother's lap, and look remarkably happy, if rather simian.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
• Finally, the sound of wooden cowbells announced the reason for the simian commotion.
  — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2020
• Waze, on the other hand, is a clear and present danger to every pedestrian, equestrian, simian and median on the planet.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• Albert died of suffocation during his flight, and a number of his simian brethren also sacrificed their lives to the cause in the ensuing years.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2013
• According to the simian market hypothesis, figuring out what stocks are worth is monkey business.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• Mando frees him soon enough (after a funny encounter with a four-armed simian food-truck chef voiced with high anxiety by Martin Scorsese).
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2026
• The lab leader, who probably didn't expect a middle-aged Englishwoman to imitate his simian charges, reached out to hold her back.
  — Ron Arias, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
• Suotamo removes that old shuffle, and lends a loping simian gait and fresh physicality that adds more variety and expression.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• Everyone, including our simian hero, is obsessed with digging into the fully destructible ground to unearth its precious metals and gems.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 23 May 2025
• For the effects company responsible for the simian half of the battle, Weta Digital, the stakes felt nearly as high.
  — Tim Grierson, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2017
• Umba, the movement specialist underneath the simian special effects, is convincing.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• Still, even those giraffe characters don’t have species-specific traits—nothing like Babar’s regal bearing or George’s simian curiosity.
  — Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Brandy fixes her gaze on the mirror while repeating a series of unusual gestures, apparently mesmerized by the simian mimic who can anticipate her every move.
  — Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Yet the games themselves bore few traces of such hardship, sparkling from our screens — quite literally in the case of Donkey Kong Bananza, which saw its simian star unearthing diamond bananas.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
• The vaccine also protected 67 percent of rhesus monkeys exposed to a simian virus similar to HIV, according to the researchers.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
• But Williams has always thrived on the audience’s sympathy as much as their admiration, and Better Man finds a wonderfully goofy way to represent that with its charming, if unevolved, simian star.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
• In this simian spin on the slasher movie, college kid Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah) returns home to Hawaii for a visit with family and Ben, a super-smart chimp and her late mom's research project.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
• Animals, especially simian ones, were historically racialized in popular culture to dehumanize black people.
  — Nadra Nittle, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
• As Deadline reported last week, Tatro was in talks to join the DC Universe as the hyper-intelligent telepathic ape who has sought to rule both the simian and human worlds, though the Flash has frequently thwarted his plans.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 15 July 2026

simian

2 of 2 noun

• If that were true, every simian mugging at his own smartphone could call himself an artist.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• Rather, the sneaky simians are provided with mountains of food to gorge themselves.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2017
• After quenching its thirst, the smart simian proves its green credentials by turning off the tap.
  — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2019
• But like the sentient simians from the Planet of the Apes, some of us staged a rebellion last summer.
  — Staff Report, Orange County Register, 28 Apr. 2017
• The simian examined the page briefly, then meandered a few feet to check out several small boys crowding the glass for a closer look.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• Caesar the ape leads simians in revolt against the governor enslaving them on future Earth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• An astronaut and his team crash on a world ruled by intelligent, talking simians who treat humans like animals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• Stereotypes about the Irish, often depicted as having simian features, were common at the time.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2018
• But the one thing Cooper was never able to do was come to the office and at Chewy, all the pets come to the office, including simians.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
• Jupe carefully reaches toward Gordy, but before their fingers connect, the simian is gunned down from behind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• In 2029 an astronaut leads a human uprising against a military leader and his army of ruling simians.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• He’s known for a wearing a monkey mask in the ring, which doubles as a tribute to Hanuman, the Hindu deity who once led an army of simians against the ancient forced of evil.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
• Her cast, human and simian, is compelling, particularly her heroine, who rebounds from one cruel blow after another.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Political cartoonists gave Irishmen dark skin and simian features.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• But half a mile from camp, a peculiar howling echoed through the forest—almost, but not exactly, like that of a spider monkey, the largest simian in the jungle and an excellent source of meat.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• Want to experience the end of the world, an attack from outer space, a war to the death between superheroes, or a contagious disease that puts our simian cousins in control of the planet?
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 13 Mar. 2020
• Even Pierre Boulle, who wrote the novel upon which the 1968 film was based, never imagined a future this long, complicated, or full of talking simians.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 10 May 2024
• Played as an arrogant idiot prince, Rogen’s instantly identifiable stoner giggle sandbags the simian’s bravado in wry fashion.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
• Villagers in India being terrorized by more than 2,000 wild monkeys claim to have found an unconventional way to tackle the simian menace – by dressing up as bears.
  — Fox News, 30 Jan. 2020
• Tough but temporary, the simian intervention reminds us of our physical impermanence and the beauty of everyday materials.
  — Kim Tan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• Primatologist Davis Okoye, played by Dwayne Johnson, has a pet ape, and being in keeping with a traditional monster film, his simian companion grows and grows and grows.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2017
• Some of its grimmest passages, depicting life under concentration camp quarantine amid various, escalating acts of human-on-simian brutality, whack out the story's tonal balance.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2017
• Even the offices are lively these days, with a life-size Planet Apes simian, adorned with cool shades, greeting visitors and a handsome wood-and-glass case being built to house the division’s many historical Oscars.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
• These were the same preventative measures Philadelphia police took to keep wannabe simians from recklessly scaling anything and everything after the Eagles’ Super Bowl triumph.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2018
• On humanity’s side, at least, is Kong’s relationship with tiny human child Jia (Kaylee Hottle), who hopefully can communicate with the gigantic simian from a safe distance during this whole escapade.
  — Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2021
• On his own, this legendary superhero has consistently defeated boomerang-throwing bad guys, temperature-dropping supervillains, his own negative-image doppelgänger, and the toughest alpha simian in Gorilla City.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023