Example sentences for: gorilla

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

  • 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."

  • The expanse contains the city zoo (Parc Zoológic and its rare albino gorilla named Snowflake, or Copito de Nieve), the Museu d’Art Modern (Modern Art Museum), the seat of the Parlament de Catalunya, and the foundations of Ciutadella (Citadel).

  • 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).

  • … Others honored include Frank DeVol, the composer of the Brady Bunch theme; stripper Lili St. Cyr; Gorilla Monsoon, the first pro wrestling villain; and Frederick Hart, the traditionalist sculptor the art world stupidly ignored.

  • Speaking of the Vietnam Conflict, I say we put the Vietcong up against my pal King Kong and let 'em duke it out--my money's on the gorilla.


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