Sample Sentences fordenizen (editor-reviewed)
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The book has photographs of deep sea creatures. It is called "Denizens of the Deep."denizens = animals that inhabit a particular place
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She's a denizen of the club scene in New York.denizen = someone who frequently visits a particular place
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He's quite a character around New York — a denizen of Broadway. (source)
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Over there in the corner was a spectacled denizen of the second floor with four enormous documents spread across his table, comparing them word for word.† (source)
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They shouted angrily, as righteous in their outrage as churchgoers might be outraged at a filthy and drunken denizen of the streets who staggered into their service to sag against the chancel rail and vomit on the sanctuary floor.† (source)
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Sophie, who is shy enough anyway, detests being forced to perform for Durrfeld, but, smiling a twisted embarrassed smile, complies, speaking at her father's command in Swabian, then in the indolent cadences of Bavaria, now in the tones of a native of Dresden, of Frankfurt, quickly followed by the Low German sound of a Saxon from Hannover and at last—aware that the desperation shows in her own eyes—blurting out an imitation of some quaint denizen of the Schwarzwald.† (source)
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McCandless spoke frequently to the denizens of the Slabs about his plans for Alaska.† (source)
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Drizzt had struck out alone from Menzoberranzan on a journey to a neighboring city when he fell prey to a cave fisher, a crablike denizen of the dark caverns that customarily found a niche high above the floor of a tunnel and dropped an invisible, sticky line of webbing.† (source)
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The denizens of Joffrey's court had striven to outdo each other today.† (source)
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—Though this fish, whose loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not popularly classed among whales.† (source)
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SOMETIMES SOMEONE from the press would descend on Saeed and Nadia's camp or work site, but more often denizens would themselves document and post and comment online upon what was going on.† (source)
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The branches interfered and it was darker under the trees than it had been out in the open; nevertheless he could see, prowling around the tree, the denizen that had favored him with attention.† (source)
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She knew plenty about this forest, knew that the denizens of this place had once been faeries: gnomes, sprites, nymphs, goblins, more names than anyone could count or remember.† (source)
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Am I then fated—I, a denizen of earth—to be placed face to face with these representatives of long extinct families?† (source)
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I was what Mommy called a "Little Kid," one of five young'uns, microscopic dots on the power grid of the household, thus fit to be tied, tortured, tickled, tormented, ignored, and commanded to suffer all sorts of indignities at the hands of the "Big Kids," who didn't have to go to bed early, didn't believe in the tooth fairy, and were appointed denizens of power by Mommy, who of course wielded ultimate power.† (source)
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Sue, you seem when you are like this to be one of the women of some grand old civilization, whom I used to read about in my bygone, wasted, classical days, rather than a denizen of a mere Christian country.† (source)
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