Sample Sentences for
Tarzan
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  • When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.  (source)
    Tarzan = fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his novel, Tarzan of the Apes and used in numerous sequels, films, and television series; a baby boy raised by apes and growing up a heroic jungle adventurer (1912)
  • This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest.†  (source)
  • I thought she was swinging, like Tarzan from a vine, on the TV.†  (source)
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  • All anyone seems to know about when it comes to Africa is Tarzan MAMA.†  (source)
  • Michael gets a notion in his head that this is Africa and keeps asking, Where's Tarzan?†  (source)
  • Now he's Tarzan beating his chest and yelling.†  (source)
  • Owen was also critical of Tarzan movies.†  (source)
  • As her voice swirled on, Bev thought of some Tarzan book he had read.†  (source)
  • There was a water-damaged Faulkner, and the nearly complete set of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan.†  (source)
  • Tarzan was their favorite comic.†  (source)
  • His eyes were dark and a little ferocious when he wasn't smiling—kind of a Tarzan look, if Tarzan came in extra-small Latino.†  (source)
  • My brother and I played often in our jungle, even pretending to be Tarzan (Rano mastered the Tarzan yell from the movies).†  (source)
  • He was imitating Tarzan and going AaaaaaaaayaaaaaaaaaH!†  (source)
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