Example sentences for: gorilla

How can you use “gorilla” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She has already produced the world's first test-tube gorilla.

  • Perhaps the best time had by all was on an outing to the Minnesota Zoo, where a gorilla was eating vast handfuls of his own bright yellow feces.

  • When the kids refer to the results of a new recipe I've tried as gorilla mustard, I know it's best to retire it.

  • They've revived an ailing dog ( ER 's Anthony Edwards), spent $700 nursing a rabbit back to health (actress Gretchen Mol), spearheaded efforts to free an inhumanely caged gorilla (Doris Day), and aided African elephants that suffer from "Floppy Trunk Syndrome," a malady that keeps the poor beasts from eating properly (Alicia Silverstone).

  • Glenn Close's tender mama gorilla has clearly been to finishing school; Lance Henriksen's massive patriarch must have learned to talk from watching after-school specials: "I said he could stay," he grits, after baby Tarzan gets adopted by his missus, "That doesn't make him my son."


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