How to Use menagerie in a Sentence

menagerie

noun
  • David is known to show off his menagerie and home garden.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • One day, my mum added a duckling who couldn’t walk to our menagerie.
    — Longreads, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But my favorite of all is my menagerie of perfumes.
    — Ali Faccenda, InStyle, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The glass menagerie stood still, like puppies on adoption day.
    — Brennan Kilban, Allure, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The gallery works as an aesthetic menagerie, which makes sense.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • One-third of seats at the raw bar and in the menagerie will be reserved for walk-ins.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Picasso lived with a menagerie of cats and dogs, and even had a pet mouse.
    — National Geographic, 14 Apr. 2018
  • And on top of them was a bustling menagerie of worms, starfish, snails, crabs, shrimp, clams, and corals.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Kids were using their phones to make art, or at least menagerie, of selfies.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • The whole menagerie seemed to be there, from birds to bunnies, lizards to insects.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Want to get a closer look at the menagerie of worlds orbiting the sun?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 6 Dec. 2025
  • To most of us, the photo appears to capture a menagerie of life.
    — Natasha Daly, Animals, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The ocean floor is home to a menagerie of odd and peculiar creatures.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
  • Most locals posit that their living room view can feature quite the menagerie.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • There’s a menagerie of country instruments heard in the show.
    — Deanne Revel, Southern Living, 17 July 2024
  • The chickens completed a menagerie of dogs, more kids and a black-and-white cat.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Russia just sent a mini menagerie to orbit.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Their horses were part of a domestic and wild menagerie that, even now, prompts a smile.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • There is a menagerie of mostly homegrown pitchers.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • On most of my air travels, Michael stays home to secure the house and care for my menagerie.
    — Luzanne Otte, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
  • Can Ohio hang around against the Buckeyes’ menagerie of stud skill players?
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But this menagerie is not viewed as a problem for residents, but rather an amenity.
    — Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The sandwich shop is now closed, but the duo remains committed to the idea of menu as menagerie.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Juris used to be the menagerie caretaker there, but a jaguar attack had put him out of his right mind.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Barnes grumpily moved his menagerie to the San Gabriel Valley.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The lawn hosts a menagerie of more than 200 plushy mesh and metal lawn ornaments.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The menagerie of ancient DNA helps paint a picture of life at some of the sites.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
  • Could Lacey shelter his menagerie there while welders used the equipment to fix the enclosures?
    — OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • To enter Blair’s house in a woodsy part of Studio City is to join her menagerie.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The biggest pieces in the parade, the circus elephants of the menagerie, were Abrams tanks.
    — Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

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