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)
  • Owen was also critical of Tarzan movies.†  (source)
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  • I thought she was swinging, like Tarzan from a vine, on the TV.†  (source)
  • Now he's Tarzan beating his chest and yelling.†  (source)
  • Michael gets a notion in his head that this is Africa and keeps asking, Where's Tarzan?†  (source)
  • As her voice swirled on, Bev thought of some Tarzan book he had read.†  (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)
  • They were studying the Creation and the Fall of Man, lesson five in the Baltimore Catechism, and Sister pointed to a picture in the book of a man and woman standing more or less undressed beneath an apple tree with a serpent coiled on a limb and she called on Michael Kalenka and asked him to identify the man and woman, the easiest question she'd ever asked, and Michael Kalenka stood up and looked at the picture, and he thought and looked and thought, and Sister said, "The original parents of us all," and Michael Kalenka thought and grinned and said, "Tarzan and Jane."†  (source)
  • There was a water-damaged Faulkner, and the nearly complete set of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan.†  (source)
  • All anyone seems to know about when it comes to Africa is Tarzan MAMA.†  (source)
  • He was imitating Tarzan and going AaaaaaaaayaaaaaaaaaH!†  (source)
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