How to Use beastie in a Sentence

beastie

noun
  • I've become used to sharing our cabin in the woods with all sorts of little beasties.
  • My bathtub seems to be a place these cute beasties like to hang out.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026
  • Who needs daddy issues when there are killer beasties and walls of water closing in?
    — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • Who needs daddy issues when there are killer beasties and walls of water closing in?
    — Noel Murray, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • The duo just have to avoid hungry beasties and climb to the top of a mountain several dozen miles away.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • It has also been called the wee beastie; this is Scotland, after all.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 11 July 2016
  • The poetry, the love from a beastie crowd…and that vitiator air.
    — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Just foolishness of course, just a story to tell, on a night when the bedsheet beasties walk the earth.
    — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • Just foolishness of course, just a story to tell, on a night when the bedsheet beasties walk the earth.
    — Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2015
  • With the strange caws and showy displays, these beasties provide a lot of the movie’s easygoing pleasures.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2016
  • Should there be a funeral for a beastie, with prayers and a choir of giant rabbits dressed in blue velvet jackets?
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The wee beastie ends the season in Arthur’s body, ready to continue its freaky little business.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Her transformation from plucky tomboy moppet to bloodthirsty teen beastie is complete.
    — vanityfair.com, 17 July 2017
  • Zombieland introduces some variations on zombie lore by having its flesh-eating beasties be speedy and smart.
    — Noel Murray, The Verge, 14 June 2019
  • In other words, the reason electrons, protons, and neutrons have mass is because of this Higgs beastie.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2012
  • And its horror artwork comes with an array of suitably nasty beasties, plus more pentagrams than a Slayer concert.
    — Owen Duffy, Ars Technica, 22 June 2019
  • As if swinging open the gates of hell, Méliès invited all manner of clawed, malevolent beasties onto the silver screen.
    — A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Earth has been overrun by large, skittering, carnivorous beasties.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • From hummingbirds and butterflies to spiders and even lowly beetles, all those wee beasties are part of an intricate web that makes up an ecosystem.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2024
  • There be beasties beyond US Route 93, bigger than my vision could handle.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • The winning beastie will be turned into a real Folk, available for download from the PlayStation store.
    — Susan Arendt, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2007
  • At a pro-ferret rally in Balboa Park, one of his beasties either nipped or accidently scratched a little girl who grabbed it.
    — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • But spiders do not show any predilection for human flesh, preferring the taste of insects and another small beastie called collembola, or springtail.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • But spiders do not show any predilection for human flesh, preferring the taste of insects and another small beastie called collembola, or springtail.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • Abby’s Magical Beasties, where one of the beasties goes missing, and Abby must problem-solve.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Mario then teams up with Princess Peach to save her kingdom from Bowser, a fire-breathing beastie who commands a vast army of Koopas, who are turtles.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Like all the musical’s beasties, Rosie is a puppet, and the production’s use of that artistic device is deftly integrated.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Better still, the wee beastie that's heavy on its hoof comes equipped with thin, glassy blue tentacles that could be the altnet saviour that some of the Scottish islands stuck in the broadband slow lane need.
    — Kelly Fiveash, Ars Technica, 18 June 2017
  • The trouble is that these wee beasties have a mind of their own (so to speak), whereas the micromotors that power these new microgears have movement that's much more predictable and controllable.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2016
  • Strange nautical beasties — a mermaid, an octopus — keep washing up in the surf of Ephraim’s mind, awakening in him a dark, primordial energy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019

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