Sentence examples for ferocious creatures from inspiring English sources

Generally speaking, centaurs are represented as wild and ferocious creatures that battle with, and sometimes even eat, humans.

Some dinosaurs, it is known, were ferocious creatures — using claws, jaws, teeth, horns or even tails to subdue their prey.

Naturally shy, although potentially ferocious creatures, they gave us a good few metres of space and carried on their journey.

A typical game sees players summon ferocious creatures, cast potent spells and draw upon the power of mystical artefacts in an effort to vanquish their opponent and claim victory.

The irony is that Dr Schuman is one of the world's experts on the ferocious creatures, and the havoc they wreak.The fact that each spring some part of America gets into an undue panic about the arrival of fire ants tends to obscure two harsher truths: they are spreading relentlessly (see map); and they are pretty nasty.

Narrated by Ben Stiller, "Prehistoric Planet" transports viewers at warp speed back through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, where they come face-to-face with ferocious creatures - from dinosaurs to woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats - that seem ready to jump right out of the screen.

But James's imagination also brooded over a Hot Hell image: a big, ferocious creature poised to spring.

Beowulf, the bravest of all warriors, goes to the help of a neighbouring kingdom in order to do battle against takes on the ferocious Grendel, a savage creature who stalks the night.

On this 95-mile excursion, I have stopped to gaze at Lake Oahe, a vast reservoir formed by a dam further south, and there learned about bobcats – ferocious wild creatures twice the size of domestic cats – from a man emptying bins.

About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love" (1).

Valerie Robin was a wonderfully ferocious Myrtha, a creature of stunningly unblemished bourrées and steely waywardness.