monkey

Example Sentences

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"He was your very normal, cheeky little monkey," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

The Halos have gone to halo, the Big A is now the Big L and, somewhere, a rally monkey weeps.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Footage purportedly of Sunday's incident filmed by other zoogoers and shared on social media shows a person wearing a costume and carrying a stuffed toy jumping over a fence and into the monkey enclosure.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

The mind is just like a monkey, you can’t just follow wherever it goes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

I never did look around to see if the monkeys were after me, but I could almost feel the hot breath of that big monkey right on the back of my neck.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls