Sentence examples for a kind of monkey from inspiring English sources

The meerkat's Latin name, Suricata suricatta, is also derived from an obsolete Dutch word, surikat, meaning macaque, a kind of monkey.

Perhaps the saddest part of this is the fact that, with poses like these, Caesar obviously had a bright future ahead as a kind of monkey-based-catalogue model.

Moral: If you're a landlord, be alert for any kind of monkey business.

But an unconscious man cannot be a great movie character, and we begin to think of Szpilman as merely a piano player, a kind of trained monkey who is actually a smaller figure than the more impassioned men seen along the edges of the movie.

Things were bad enough in the 1980s, when artists sometimes referred to their work as "production," but at least that had a kind of grease-monkey grit to it.

"Comedians are a special kind of monkey".

Kathy was gracious as she received guests in a bright green frock; Bob joked in a sensible brown suit and matching tie that he would have felt more comfortable in a different kind of monkey suit.

With a kind of simian stealth, monkey bread has entered American cuisine, not through high-end restaurants but via the food pages of newspapers across the country and Internet chat rooms.

"With more suspension, there's all kinds of monkey motion," he said, referring to undesirable vehicle movements that may cause a driver to lift off the throttle or risk losing control of the vehicle.

The passengers of this open vessel — some of them wearing strange, beaked masks — included a fellow in a kind of dunce cap; several monkeys, who appeared terrified or glum; and a man with a dyspeptic expression who was — it merited a double take — urinating overboard.

Diamond also knew that a short film made by the Marxes in the early thirties, as a kind of teaser for their feature "Monkey Business," reproduced, in only very slightly different form, one of the lost musical's key scenes.