Example sentences for: menagerie

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

  • The island menagerie was used to stock the Berlin Zoo, but the bird sanctuary still has much to offer the nature-lover including, of course, peacocks.

  • For years it has been sub-editing practice to headline pieces in a punning manner: in the Books section of October 11, for example, we have, The art of friction, Tartar source, Reef encounters, Class menagerie.

  • 3 m (37 ft) high, its columns, beams, and cornices are carved with a menagerie of dragons, phoenixes, lions, and tigers in a field of clouds, peonies, Chinese sages, and angels, all gilded and painted in red, gold, blue, and green.

  • More frightening, he's turned Times Square and its menagerie of wonderful filth and decadence into Disney World North.

  • A cock and bull story, for example, derives from ancient fables and medieval bestiaries in which cocks moralized, bulls expostulated, and a menagerie of other animals discoursed in human language.


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