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Example sentences for "wild beast"

  • He must hide like a criminal; they are chasing him like a wild beast; he is always in danger, and we must constantly tremble for his safety.

  • How lone would he be chased yet, like a wild beast, from mountain to mountain?

  • They follow me everywhere, and stare at me as though I were a wild beast.

  • The position of the second son was the position of a wild beast in the house--a creature to be got rid of, without risk to yourself, if you only knew how.

  • He rose, and paced round and round the strip of greensward under the walnut-tree, like a wild beast in a cage.

  • She flew at his throat like a wild beast.

  • I suppose you'd say a fox was a wild beast?

  • You might be saved from a wild beast," Mark pointed out.

  • A wild beast with a long nose and a sort of grey colour.

  • The negroes of Calabar, at the mouth of the Niger, believe that every person has four souls, one of which always lives outside of his or her body in the form of a wild beast in the forest.

  • Thus Athamas was saved, but afterward he went mad, and mistaking his son Learchus for a wild beast, shot him dead.

  • Like a wild beast he must skulk in the long grass and the bushes; and if he sees or hears any one coming, especially a woman, he must hide behind a tree or a thicket.

  • The day passed thus; he scarcely tasted food, but walked round and round the cell like a wild beast in its cage.

  • You are mistaken; he will not advance two leagues into the interior of France without being followed, tracked, and caught like a wild beast.

  • And he broke from the priests struggling and raving like a wild beast, and striving desperately to break the cords that bound his hands.

  • No; far from wishing to learn whither he has betaken himself, I should shun the possibility of meeting him as I would a wild beast.

  • He now walked about the house like a wild beast in its cage, putting his ear to the door to listen if the other were there and defying him through the wall.

  • She spoke hurriedly, her eyes cast down, with a deprecating air as of a wild beast who is afraid.

  • The moment my voice was heard, my face seen, the whole squalid populace rose as on a wild beast,--a mad dog.

  • Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare.

  • You see how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast.

  • As I read their conversation it seemed to me as though John Knox and John Calvin were made for each other; that they fitted each other like the upper and lower jaws of a wild beast.

  • Castillo was pursued by John Calvin like a wild beast.

  • He knew that his doom was now sealed, and that nothing remained for him but to be hunted as a wild beast of the forest for the remainder of his days.

  • I believe that such a job would be a positive pleasure to him, for the fellow is more like a wild beast than a man.

  • The latter turned, and with an inarticulate cry, like a wild beast, rushed at the young man and seized him by the throat with his brawny hands.

  • Well, Jonas had thought on these things till he could not rest, but walked up and down continually like a wild beast in his cage.

  • Mrs. Wilson slowly turned round, and her eyes gleamed like those of a pent-up wild beast, as she recognised her visitor.

  • During that time, he grew gloomier, lost his appetite, could not sleep and walked in his underground cell like a wild beast in a cage.

  • If that wicked enemy, the Knight of the Cross, were present, he would have fallen upon him and torn him to pieces like a wild beast.

  • He was greatly terrified, but in a moment he grasped the hilt of his sword, clenched his teeth, and had the appearance of a wild beast at bay, ready to defend himself desperately.

  • Hlawa was amazed at the sight of the extraordinarily small shaggy chargers, with powerful necks, such strange brutes that the western knights took them to be quite another species of wild beast, more like a unicorn than a horse.

  • Soon after certain shepherds discovered the saint near his cave, but at first took him for a wild beast; for he was clad with the skins of beasts, and they imagined no human creature could live among those rocks.

  • In the persecution of Dioclesian he fell into the hands of a judge, who, by his brutal behavior, resembled more a wild beast than a man.

  • The two other negroes were obliged to seize hold of him, when he endeavored to bite every one within his reach like a wild beast, and carry him to the nearest house.

  • He gnashed his teeth at us like a wild beast, and flourished his knife with frightful rapidity.

  • They were tall robust men, fully six feet high; their features showed the most violent agitation, and their huge mouths and projecting teeth had really more resemblance to the jaws of a wild beast than to anything human.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wild beast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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