The word 'beasts' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe creatures that are considered wild and dangerous, or to refer to nonhuman animals in general. For example, "The lion is one of the most majestic beasts in the animal kingdom."
December's Fiera del Bue Grasso is a bovine beauty show where restaurants and breeders bid to buy the top beasts.
Wild Beasts Smother "I discovered Wild Beasts on their second record, Two Dancers, but was completely absorbed in it for months.
But one scientist on the team said the beasts might have prevailed had the asteroid struck earlier or later than it did.
Two of classic rock's big beasts rejoin the fray, albeit both with only half their core members remaining.
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It is that rarest of political beasts, the lesser spotted Jon Huntsman campaign TV ad.
Plenty of Westminster big beasts lost their seats in the 2015 election: Vince Cable, David Laws, the two Alexanders – Douglas and Danny.
In 1997 Westminster beasts didn't come much bigger than Michael Portillo, who was famously unseated in Enfield by the youthful Labour candidate, Stephen Twigg.
The two are not even a third of the way through a multimillion pound, 10-year stretch wrought solely for the twisted pleasure of gawping visitors stupid enough to swallow the fiction that they are somehow assisting in the conservation of these poor beasts and their kind.
Back in the days when one didn't know much about the jihadis carrying out beheadings, it was possible to think that they were just – as David Cameron has denounced them – "monsters", savages, beasts.
"Elementary is a good show, but it's week-in-week-out, story-of-the-week – it's there to do a job and it does it really, really well," says Stephenson. "Sherlock is there to be a special event, it's there to be like a big movie that comes out every so often, and is explosive when it does – they're very different beasts".
