The phrase "a creature apart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is distinct or different from others, often implying uniqueness or otherness.
Example: "In the vast expanse of the forest, she felt like a creature apart, separate from the mundane world of humans."
Alternatives: "an entity distinct" or "a being set apart".
The northern goshawk, however – the largest and most powerful among a group of short‑winged hawks called accipiters – has long been considered a creature apart.
She is cast into the same pejorative stereotype so many Victorian women are: not very beautiful, especially once the teeth went; alternatively a virgin, asexual or a lesbian – De Quincey hinted all three at various points; a bit of an oddball labelled as both being a "creature apart" above love and sex, and of being in love with her own brother.
Like Patricia Highsmith, with whom she shared a healthy interest in sadism, and, briefly, a little black cat named Spider, she was a creature apart, not of us but living among us with lively disdain and mistrust rather like, well, a cat).
Gyllenhaal has been memorable in the past ("Brokeback Mountain," "End of Watch," "Prisoners"), but, as impeccably written by Gilroy (whose credits include co-writing "The Bourne Legacy" with brother Tony), his Lou is a creature apart.
Unlike the anthill imagined by me -- where everyone has a place -- here there is a creature apart.
It is the closest approach to symbolic language of any creature apart from humans.
Apart from the frustrating truth that it's often impossible to tell the warring creatures apart — both sets are huge, black, gleaming, clanking, with many arms and appendages — they obey no rules that would make their combats a struggle of courage against limitation and therefore worth caring about.
Anathema, (from Greek anatithenai: "to set up," or "to dedicate"), in the Old Testament, a creature or object set apart for sacrificial offering.
I started taking pictures with greater and greater separations between them, and then, using a cardboard tube about a yard long and four little mirrors, I made a hyperstereoscope — turning myself, in effect, into a creature with eyes a yard apart.
A creature senses an ending.
