Example sentences for: prehensile

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

  • For our simian ancestors in the trees, falling from branch to branch was a normal mode of locomotion, but you had better have a prehensile paw for grabbing the crucial limb at the last moment.

  • A tireless self-promoter (a friend described him as "felicitously prehensile"), Brady was camera-shy, placing himself on the margins of photographs in which he appeared or, more often, with his back turned.

  • There is an interesting Australasian area, with Bennett wallabies and a bintubong (also called “bearcat”), a large marsupial with a prehensile tail that sits on a tree stump watching the visitors pass by.


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