Tarzanin a sentence
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The city, Tarzana, California, is named for the Tarzan character.
Tarzan = fictional character raised by apes who grew up a heroic jungle adventurer
- Let's play Tarzan.
- It wasn't strong, he couldn't use it to pull a Tarzan and swing from a tree, but it should hold the raft to the plane. (source)
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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.
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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)
- He also loved Tarzan, a movie so popular that it had to be shown for several weeks in a row.† (source)
- I wasn't Tarzan.† (source)
- IT PROBABLY LOVES TARZAN!† (source)
- With a wild hollering yodeling sound, like Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan, he picked up the clerk from behind in a bear hug, lifting him eighteen inches clear of the ground, and shook the terrified creature from side to side.† (source)
- If they get numerous enough and too persistent, he'll have to start swinging from vine to vine, like Tarzan.† (source)
- Tarzan was their favorite comic.† (source)
- This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest.† (source)
- He only wore a piece of cloth around his middle, like Tarzan, so we could see his hairy legs and belly and back and arms.† (source)
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- Michael gets a notion in his head that this is Africa and keeps asking, Where's Tarzan?† (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)
- I felt like Tarzan.† (source)
- All anyone seems to know about when it comes to Africa is Tarzan MAMA.† (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)
- …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)
- It kind of makes him look like Tarzan, don't you think?† (source)
- He had never been in such a place, and until this moment he had thought that the most luxurious spot imaginable was the movie house in San Lucas, where the schoolteacher had once taken the whole class to see a Tarzan movie.† (source)
- They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon.† (source)
- And he started calling elephants like Tarzan does in the movie, "Aghhh-uhhhh-uhhhh-uhhhhhhh-hh—"† (source)
- We could be like Tarzan and Jane, swinging through a jungle, snagging bananas right off a tree, living at one with nature, la-di-da Tarzan and Jane and their band of merry mutants!† (source)
- There was a water-damaged Faulkner, and the nearly complete set of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan.† (source)
- People who'd never been closer to Africa than a Tarzan movie were speaking broken Swahili.† (source)
- Me go down to Tarzan.† (source)
- Tarzan country, Eddie Lazzutti called it.† (source)
- I felt like a combination of Tarzan and Romeo.† (source)
- It was supposed to be for Tarzan.† (source)
- I felt that dressing Star was like putting a paint job on the crown jewels—but I was forced to admit that, if we were not to do the "Me Tarzan, you Jane" bit right in that dell from then on till death do us part, then clothes of some sort, if only to keep her perfect skin from getting scratched by brambles, were needed.† (source)
- He played the character parts formerly thrust upon me— the ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys, Mr. Damon in Tom Swift. (source)
- I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan, and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety despite Jem's assurances that Boo Radley was dead and nothing would get me, with him and Calpurnia there in the daytime and Atticus home at night. (source)
- I thought she was swinging, like Tarzan from a vine, on the TV.† (source)
- Owen was also critical of Tarzan movies.† (source)
- Tarzan fit this formula—and so did the dreaded biblical epics.† (source)
- The Idaho was partial to Tarzan films, and—increasingly—to biblical epics.† (source)
- Now he's Tarzan beating his chest and yelling.† (source)
- "He says he went to a party for Tarzan, in Los Angeles," he said dully.† (source)
- Nobody mentioned Tarzan all night long, and I never saw him.† (source)
- "You can't be Tarzan," said Jem.† (source)
- He runs up and down the backyard with no pants on trying to imitate Tarzan yodeling from tree to tree.† (source)
- "Let's play Tarzan today.† (source)
- I'm gonna be Tarzan."† (source)
- I don't have to sit up in the gods anymore with people all around me cheering on the Indians killing General Custer and the Africans chasing Tarzan all over the jungle.† (source)
- They're very grand now the way they pay sixpence or even a shilling for seats at the Savoy Cinema where you'll meet a better class of people than the lower classes who fill the tuppenny seats in the gods at the Lyric Cinema and are never done shouting at the screen, the kind of people if you don't mind who are liable to cheer on the Africans when they throw spears at Tarzan or the Indians when they're scalping the United States Cavalry.† (source)
- Where's Tarzan?† (source)
- AND EVERY TIME HE GOES SWIMMING, THEY SEND IN THE ALLIGATORS OR THE CROCODILES—ACTUALLY, I THINK IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME ALLIGATOR OR CROCODILE; THE POOR CREATURE IS TRAINED TO WRESTLE WITH TARZAN.† (source)
- Tarzan!" she yelled.† (source)
- I think it's so sad the way our American Negroes don't know nothing about Africa 'cept Tarzan and all that.† (source)
- 'Is this the Tarzan party?'† (source)
- The other side now, viejo," he shouted up to Anselmo and climbed across through the trestling, like a bloody Tarzan in a rolled steel forest, he thought, and then coming out from under the dark, the stream tumbling below him, he looked up and saw Anselmo's face as he reached the packages of explosive down to him.† (source)
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