Sample Sentences for
menagerie
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    As a child, she was fascinated by the old castle’s menagerie of rare animals.
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    Well, he certainly must have strained himself to get this menagerie together.  (source)
    menagerie = diverse group
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    The crowd mills around the menagerie, viewing the animals on their way to the big top.  (source)
    menagerie = a collection of wild animals in captivity; or their enclosure
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    Mother calls them a glass menagerie! Here's an example of one, if you'd like to see it! This one is one of the oldest.  (source)
    menagerie = a collection of wild animals in captivity
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    Several of these deer were so heavily infested with external and internal parasites that they were little better than walking menageries, doomed to die soon in any case.†  (source)
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    Inside, they stared at the shelves of her menagerie.†  (source)
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    Now, the old sofa was a regular patriarch of a sofa—long, broad, well-cushioned, and low, a trifle shabby, as well it might be, for the girls had slept and sprawled on it as babies, fished over the back, rode on the arms, and had menageries under it as children, and rested tired heads, dreamed dreams, and listened to tender talk on it as young women.†  (source)
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    Probably getting her owl They made their way back up the crowded street to the Magical Menagerie.†  (source)
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    At five minutes to twelve stood a copy of Dr Faustus, at two lay on Occult Iconography, at six, under Mr Halloway's trailed fingers now, a history of circuses, carnivals, shadow shows, puppet menageries inhabited by mountebanks, minstrels, stiltwalking sorcerers and their fantoccini.†  (source)
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    "A menagerie of the sea," murmured Tanna.†  (source)
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    Let us say here that a prince's apartment was then composed of never less than eleven large rooms, from the chamber of state to the oratory, not to mention the galleries, baths, vapor-baths, and other "superfluous places," with which each apartment was provided; not to mention the private gardens for each of the king's guests; not to mention the kitchens, the cellars, the domestic offices, the general refectories of the house, the poultry-yards, where there were twenty-two general laboratories, from the bakehouses to the wine-cellars; games of a thousand sorts, malls, tennis, and riding at the ring; aviaries, fishponds, menageries, stables, barns, libraries, arsenals and foundries.†  (source)
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    Is there no menagerie or library that we could see?†  (source)
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    This grating was nothing else than a piece of the brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries.†  (source)
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