Sentence examples for there were creatures from inspiring English sources

The sound of waves against rocks existed millennia before there were creatures who could hear it.

On an island that it had been speculated was modelled on Tasmania; there were creatures like wallabies there.

William Golding writes: "There were creatures that lived in this last fling of the sea, tiny transparencies that came questing in with the water over the hot, dry sand.

The Hastings schools had the good sense to pair Peter with an upbeat Russian immigrant and tutor, Alexander Davis, who had the good sense to ply him with Russian songs and fairy tales and to notice on nature walks that there were creatures Peter could relate to — animals.

We may imagine that there were creatures to all appearances like cats, but which are internally robots; or just like tigers but had reptilian innards.

— Julia Moskin The Girl & the Fig Farm Project: Beetles, bees, owls — there are creatures hard at work on a biodynamic farm even when the human farmers are elsewhere.

There are creatures everywhere.

There are creatures in "White Teeth" who are as ridiculous as Mr. Bulstrode in "Middlemarch".

There are creatures — hibernating bears come to mind, or emergency-room doctors after an overnight shift — who don't appreciate being roused from their slumber.

There are creatures fished out of formaldehyde, volumes flecked with rot, birds that have been hollowed out and stuffed, household tools battered beyond recognition.

"Did you know, Mr. Kerchek, that there are creatures in the Book of Revelation covered entirely with eyeballs?" Douglas shook his head.