Example sentences for: gorillas

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

  • DNA was obtained from cell lines and/or blood from a human (sample ID 02-0056), two unrelated common chimpanzees (sample IDs: NA03450B, NA03448A), two unrelated pygmy chimpanzees (sample IDs: BB501, LB502), and two unrelated gorillas (sample IDs: 9521, 9247).

  • The Times notes that tourist treks aiming to see mountain gorillas became popular after the movie "Gorillas in the Mist," about researcher Dian Fossey, but oddly does not mention that Fossey was also murdered in the jungle.

  • 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

  • They say that a 15 million-year-old fossil of an African ape provides new evidence of a common ancestor of gorillas, chimps, and humans.


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