How to Use monkey with in a Sentence
monkey with
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One monkey with its hands covering its eyes, another with its hands covering its mouth, and a third with its hands covering its ears.
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Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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Irons brought the monkey with him to Kansas City, and, as legend has it, it’s buried somewhere on the property.
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Kansas City Star,
20 Sep. 2025
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Further proof of the theory that a bunch of monkeys with typewriters could eventually produce the full works of Shakespeare.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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At least one hand organ player outfitted his monkey with a red jacket—apparently an early instance of a type of street entertainment that spread across American cities by the early twentieth century.
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Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Sep. 2025
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The new majority on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors intends to imprudently balance its operating budget by monkeying with its reserve structure and reducing its size.
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Harvey Levine,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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