Sentence examples for dumb beast from inspiring English sources

My heart pounded nonetheless, the dumb beast.

If that's all a writer contrives, he's "treating you like a dumb beast, endlessly fascinated by a swinging weight on a cord".

Blame fairytales, blame JK Rowling, but reality often comes highly augmented in children's fiction; rarely is an animal just a dumb beast, or anything just as it seems.

A second, smaller tug, owned by Dragamex, had attached a towline to the barge's stern, and, like circus trainers with an unruly elephant, the two boats leaned hard against their ropes, trying to bring the dumb beast in line.

The grand dumb Beast of Budapest with his fantasies of world domination, bartered away for some two-bit border hick who thought it would be funny to make prisoners wear pink underwear.

I'm making a movie, which is perhaps redundant to say since we're on a lot, but they do treat us like dumb beasts".

The master would become less a monarch than a stern but benevolent father, and slaves less dumb beasts than obedient children.

"No work, no play, no idle strolling was known; no sign of human life or motion was seen except the necessary care of the patient cattle and other dumb beasts, the orderly and quiet going to and from the meeting, and at the nooning, a visit to the churchyard to stand by the side of the silent dead".

For Peggy, a woman who greets her beloved four-legged friend with a toothy smile that rivals the sun for warmth (Pencil shines right back), this isn't the death of some adopted stray, one in a line of carelessly loved dumb beasts.

I used to think hunting was me versus dumb beasts that didn't have much of a chance; but now I know hunting is a bit like being in the infantry (clearly a bit of sublimation on the vice president's part, victimized as he was during the Vietnam War by student deferments): anyone can shoot anyone at a moment's notice.

One way to alleviate it would be to increase the intelligence of traffic lights – converting them from dumb beasts that beat out the same rhythm all day long into dynamic managers of vehicle flow.