Sentence examples for hyena at from inspiring English sources

The narrator takes an instant dislike to the unfortunate-looking Ridley ("pouchy, pallid, pig-eyed and all but lipless, indistinctly hulking in her lurid, swishing leisure gear") and worries that she is intent on sinking "her jaws into my little life" with "all the vigor of a hyena at carrion".

Longtime neighbors recall hearing the cry of hyenas at night.

The audience explodes, clapping wildly, shrieking in laughter, heads thrown back like hyenas at the site of a kill.

Research with captive hyenas at the University of California, Berkeley, has revealed that the glans of the male's penis swells slightly in the female's reproductive tract, such that the sex partners remain in a brief "copulatory lock" for some minutes after the male ejaculates.

Because the students of the Oxford MCCU side who host Surrey – while the County Championship chugs into life elsewhere – are a far cry from the 11-strong pack of Baggy Green-wearing hyenas at the Sydney Cricket Ground that whooped and hollered after Ryan Harris teased the inside edge of Pietersen's bat and George Bailey clung on at short-leg.

He had been to the movies, which he hates, with this boy and another, and they both "laughed like hyenas at stuff that wasn't even funny," and then he tells you, after this harrowing experience, "I didn't even enjoy sitting next to them in the movies".

Intel is likely to cut prices to keep the silicon hyenas at bay, an act that would no doubt lead to further margin erosion.

His torrential struggle with reality drives "Hyenas" at Stages Theatre Center.

"You can see it in people's eyes when they see the hyenas at night.

On that morning, people leave porridge and butter for the hyenas at the many shrines that dot the town.

In east Nigeria they have a belief that there are people who are capable of turning themselves into hyenas at will.