Example sentences for: gorillas

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

  • The plot rips off the familiar one-on-one mind games of The Silence of the Lambs and adds up to nothing more than "a greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as Gorillas in the Mist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to watch the trailer, and for David Edelstein's review in

  • The daft charm of Edgar Rice Burroughs' protagonist--a little boy raised by gorillas whose animal and human languages are constantly vying for supremacy--doesn't have the same piquancy when the gorillas talk like characters from Leave It to Beaver . If we're all the same under the skin (or fur), then what's the point of the story?

  • The toughest male gorillas get a whole harem of females to themselves, and the wimpiest get zilch.

  • In "Gorilla Warfare," Robert Wright has misconstrued what gorillas can teach us.

  • The problem with fielding a sexually integrated army of gorillas wouldn't be that the females can't fight.


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