How to Use gorilla in a Sentence

gorilla

noun

• She hired some gorilla as her bodyguard.
• See the video above for a look at the adorable young gorillas.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 26 July 2023
• Sully the gorilla is 8 years old and was thought to be a male.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• The front plate of one of his books showed a gorilla bending a rifle in half and killing the hunter.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022
• Harambe dragged the boy around the enclosure, and the child was with the gorilla for about 10 minutes.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 22 Jan. 2024
• No amount of talking, though, will make the gorilla slink away.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• And if a gorilla’s consciousness does shift, what would that be like to the ape?
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
• Boy or girl:An Ohio zoo thought one of their gorillas was male.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Bauer is not the gorilla in the room except when writers bring it up.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• In the comics, decades ago, M’Baku was the silverback gorilla.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• So Staples sat up all night with the tiny gorilla sleeping on his chest.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
• The 800-pound gorilla Legion can credit much of its demand to one beer.
  — Daniel Hartis, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• Halfway through the video, a person in a gorilla suit walked into the midst of the players and thumped their chest at the camera before strolling off-screen.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
• Earlier this month, the zoo lost a beloved silverback gorilla – the oldest at the zoo.
  — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
• The only jungle is a manmade one at the San Diego wildlife sanctuary where George, the gorilla, lives.
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2022
• Killing a gorilla bothers us more than killing a rat, which bothers us more than killing a cockroach.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• The previous birth was Keyembe, a male gorilla born in 2021.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
• Seven years after his death, the world continues to mourn Harambe the gorilla.
  — Keely Brown, The Enquirer, 26 May 2023
• The zoo added that the median life expectancy for male gorillas is 32.7 years.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• The porters who work in this gorilla habitat volunteer their time.
  — Alisandra Puliti, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
• When Juba notices Findley, the male gorilla turns to face the zookeeper and gazes at her baby.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• Perhaps this is why a film about people heaping love on a gorilla appealed to me.
  — Amber Husain, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• The keeper captured a video of herself bringing Olivia to the glass of the Dallas Zoo's gorilla exhibit.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• In those first weeks in the studio, Monita sometimes joked that her son was like a gorilla wielding a paintbrush.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• When zoo keepers raised part of the wall in response, Evelyn found a weak spot elsewhere, using the same male gorilla to get over.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• The lifespan of a wild gorilla is typically 30 to 40 years.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• Rivers Herd, 3 at the time, was critically injured when he was bitten and scratched by the gorilla.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023
• Maybe the next set of experiments will teach Atlas to be less of a hulking gorilla.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023
• The video then cuts to a shot of the conservationists grabbing each others' hands while a gorilla kisses its child on the head.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• Elsewhere a large pair of leathery elephants squeal, while at least six gorillas and orangutans top rocky bluffs or emerge from the walls.
  — Linze Rice, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024