The phrase "a different creature to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two entities or discussing how one differs from another in nature or characteristics.
Example: "In many ways, the new software is a different creature to its predecessor, offering features that were previously unimaginable."
Alternatives: "a different entity from" or "a distinct being compared to".
"Sylvia," his four-person comic romp, now being offered at George Street Playhouse in a splendidly acted, smartly directed new production, holds up a different creature to scrutiny.
He has described his event as "a different creature" to Venice, suggesting that it will be more open and democratic, with a jury made up of ordinary film-goers.
If they can't have Assad's head they might go for an independent Sunni state in the east--a different creature than a federal state.
Each page in "Good Night!" bids an evening farewell to a different creature, and each page in "Spoonful!" offers a mouthful of food (unspecified) to a person or animal.
Their most dramatic discovery is a manuscript in Rebecca's own hand, a letter to the future that reveals her to be a different creature entirely from the bad witch described by Maxim -- and by du Maurier.
Credit Mad Men for rekindling nostalgia for the 1950s and 60s if you must, but The Aviation Cocktail, a dramatic thriller that's cast, crewed, and filmed in Colorado and Nebraska during that era looks to be a different creature entirely.
"Sweet Fields," Ms. Tharp's 1996 ode to the Shakers, is a different creature, one watched from a remove through the designer Jennifer Tipton's dappled shafts of light.
Writing online today in Nature, the researchers propose that, after pennaceous feathers evolved, they became adapted for different purposes in different creatures: to attract a mate, like a peacock's tail, or for insulation.
It is a tricky balance to strike.Ms Ahrendts cautions that the "millennial customer" is a different creature from the 20th-century luxury-lover.
