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Sentence Examples It was like some sort of ghastly empowerment group, of thousands, except it was being chaired by a bald ape who ran hither and yon. During the latest bachelor party, a man in an ape suit served as master of ceremonies as guests were required to answer a series of riddles. However, the mermaids and mermen of the Pacific were ugly, angst-ridden hags with ape like features and brown hair covering their upper bodies. Like the giant ape, the Hulk is a freak of nature, hunted by the authorities. The entire behavioral record for each ape was scored independently by two observers. The book, which is bound for the first time, features a mustard-yellow cover with artwork of an ape contemplating a baseball. Flattering as it may be to our egos, the Japanese don't always slavishly ape our tastes in entertainment. It bewilders me why so many fans go so far to slavishly ape their icons' lifestyle, dress, and style. Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink. If this ancient ape was anything like living chimps and gorillas, it depended mainly on fruits. The crested black macque was called the Celebes or black ape by early scientists, because it appeared to have no tail. By juxtaposing man and ape in identical squatting poses, these capitals explicitly evoke the simian trait of mimicry. They did not care two straws whether man was descended from the ape or not. Being at the uttermost ends of the earth we are both proud of our uniqueness and at times also wanting to ape the big kids on the block. In the six million years since the human and ape lines first diverged, the behaviour and lifestyles of apes have hardly changed. Rather the ape had achieved its high status through intellect, the dog on account of highly developed emotions. Ironically, it's Heston, in a small cameo role as an aging ape, who has the film's best moment. Strange to report then that with its new car it has made no effort whatsoever to ape the rather appealing styling of the last one. On the basis of all three works, I'd call him a Stravinsky-Hindemith neoclassicist, although like most of his tribe, he doesn't ape his models. If we are trying to ape the west, what we will land up with is a whole lot of emotional wrecks. Show More Sentences In fact, Huxley argued, a human differs much less from an ape, such as a chimpanzee or gorilla, than an ape does from a baboon. If so why is she drooling over this ape of a man who is so Neanderthal, he can't string more than two words together. An ape is defined by the ability to move through the trees swinging arm over arm in a form of locomotion called brachiation. Aileen is played by Charlize Theron in a performance that everybody's going ape over, and it's easy to see why. Eventually, the behaviorists caved in and exempted the bipedal ape from their theory of everything. Mind you, most of Europe went ape over the election, and it doubled my fun. In a word, he looked exactly like the ape dressed in the habit of a merry andrew, except that he had no hair. We ape the worst of tabloid titillation in a relentless downward drive of tacky exploitation. Being close to us makes this ape a natural for scientific studies, and much time and effort is spent in research. There's no need for him to slavishly ape Hitchcock to be a great film-maker. And it is doing this to keep the Reform Party happy and ape our neighbours to the south. With the help of a primatologist, Caesar, played by Serkis, grows up to be an ape with genius-level intelligence. If only Charlton Heston had been there to shriek something about overthrowing our ape overlords. In his more-than-a-dozen books, he has thoughtfully mined the goings-on of the ape world for insights about the human one. He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. If unskilfully and casually treated, it will be but the ape of nature. He went ape when he netted against his former club ten minutes from time after he flicked the ball up with his left foot and rammed it into the net with his right. They found that 60 percent of plantations overlapped with great ape habitat across the entire area. Certainly, no one should think about playing the sedulous ape to him. If all that Scotland's new-economy tyros want to do is ape the customs and mores of Scotland's bankers, actuaries, accountants and lawyers, God help us all. Show More Sentences It seems these days that there are precious few ordinary human or ape fossils unearthed, rather they all have to be a missing link between the two. We had to be less developed to pass through a smaller, bipedal apes cervix, and as a result developed longer and slower, but further than our ape cousins. But in the corner the ape was bristling, and a certain point he snapped. One recurrent question concerns the extent of ape carnivory. Hoolock Gibbon is the only species of ape to be found in India. The disguises actually allow the power of the performer inside the ape costumes to break through, unlike the rigid masks from the original movies. Is this feeling of escapism the reason why so many people go ape at theme parks? But, as he entered her driveway, a man jumped out of the bushes, yelling at him — a little guy, going ape. Develop and promote responsible great ape tourism, of already habituated gorilla groups and within the broader ecotourism strategy for this site. The week before, Goodes had been racially abused on the pitch by a girl who called him an ape. You know with the ape thing, the whole thing, I'm just saying pumping him up and mucking around, all that sort of stuff. Indeed, these agencies even ape the behaviour of those sections of the media that are opposed to traditional values. Maintain ape biomonitoring program, including training in monitoring methods for research personnel. Here we're introduced to some of the civic and military leaders of the ape pack, led by Thade, an ornery, scowling, bad-tempered ape if there ever was one. This series is about Monkey World, the popular ape and monkey sanctuary and zoo near Wool, Dorset. They fear teenie fans of Mel B and Victoria Adams will want to ape their idols and have babies of their own. Go ape www.goape.co.uk is an award-winning high wire forest adventure course of rope bridges, tarzan swings and zip slides... all set high up in the tree tops. As if a giant ape weren't enough to get Jack Black going in King Kong, the actor says he let loose one time while making the film. When the Giganto dragged him off the tree, he lay on the ground looking up at the monstrous ape as it roared. These scientific debates take on political significance for advocates of great ape personhood. Show More Sentences Pushing 70, Ferguson is getting too old to ape the touchline contortionism of Villas-Boas. The old country — the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — is going ape about the possibility of Scotland voting for independence in a referendum on Thursday, September 18th. The taxonomy shown here follows the monophyletic groupings according to the modern understanding of human and great ape relationships. The motion-captured ape characters are the bleeding edge of digital effects, rarely short of impressive. After Cooper's interview, Burnham made it clear that he too supported the idea of a 50p top rate of income tax to help with reduction of the deficit and warned against any move by the party to ape the Conservatives. What Marvel has achieved with its comic-book universe, which Sony would do well to ape, is a kind of synthesis between creative endeavour and smart studio deal-making which would once have been thought impossible. There are eight living species of great ape which are classified in four genera. All the action is happening over there, so we've sprinted to the gorilla house, and I'm trying to get a glimpse through the reinforced glass of a hairy ape with his back to me. The following table lists the estimated number of great ape individuals living outside zoos. Their numbers and range dwindled so much last century due to human development that there are fears they could be the first ape species to go extinct because of people. Freida meets a man who has dedicated his life to the Hoolock gibbon, India's only ape, which starts the morning by singing. The producers go ape, but Ellison stands fast. From small animal exhibits to the ape house. After two millennia of Chinese over-lordship and 60 years of amity-enmity under Communist rule, Hanoi's leaders still ape the policies of its northern neighbor. High on The Rock of Gibraltar, Benny the Barbary ape and six of his tail-less, furryfaced friends scampered up and held out leathery paws. He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape. If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies. The change in Toto once he arrived at the ape sanctuary was immediate. Rather than ape the jingle jangle pop perfection of the Beatles, Wilson and Parks knew that the best response was a music as American as the moptops were British. These shape differences affect the way the bones are arranged on the skull base, such that it is fairly easy to tell apart even isolated fragments of ape and human basicrania. Show More Sentences Krantz put forth the theory that Sasquatches could be surviving Gigantopithecus, a giant ape that inhabited China and southeast Asia 300,000 years ago. Got three in my clothes, took off like a striped ape, and got nekkid. Well, why else would our Supreme Leader ape Buzz Lightyear by donning a flak jacket and helmet over his Crimplene suit and spend a night in a shed in Afghanistan? As a physician, Varki had little interest in great ape genetics until his research on sugar molecules called sialic acids led him in that direction. So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing. The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage. Doing incredibly interesting things with dubstep and some top deliveries from Space Ape this is a great work. Ape mothers nurse their babies for several years, and during this period they are protective and attentive to the point of indulgence. Little Ape three-wheel trucks are laden with freshly harvested winter produce like peas and artichokes being sold on the roadside. My great treat was to be able to spend a whole day on the Rock of Gibraltar, inside the barbary Ape colony. Based in Vancouver, Canada, David is a regular and enthusiastic visitor to Australia, and was here recently to promote his latest book, Naked Ape to Superspecies. The first method, APE A Priori information for Earthquake damage mapping, concerns the generation of maps to address the detection and estimate of damage caused by a seism. There's also the Bedgebury National Pinetum, which has a Go Ape. As an animal behaviourist, he's called in to help the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary in Abercrave re-settle a mandrill brought back to Wales from a zoo in Poland. Examples from Classical Literature He sings of the artists' balls that ape the Bohemia of Paris, of our genius, our unrestraint, our scorn of all convention. One is reminded of Fechner's playful satire by the spectacle of those poets who ape angelic modes of progression. The other agreed, and after reverentially bowing to the ape, mounted on his back. The magot is sometimes known as the Barbary ape, although of course it is not really an ape at all. The E. spirula of certain Brazilian monkeys and of the Barbary ape bears a strong resemblance to the species from the hog. And guan Yin gave the Monk a magic formula by means of which the ring could be tightened, should the ape grow disobedient. The orang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous. This Naka Machi had tossed into the aperture where the ape skin had been destroyed. The old gray ape knitted on, not looking toward Ervic now, and the young skeezer stolidly kept his seat. At fifteen or sixteen, she affected, both in dress and manners, to ape such of the quality as were most apish. He treated him, of necessity, as though he were actually the colombian ape he pretended to be. This ape has been described in a former volume, for it is abundant in Sumatra. This ape is a macaque, a genus that otherwise is purely Asiatic and contains some of the most celebrated of the monkeys. Cut-in-Half slept in a room underneath, with his great ape, Gargousse, fastened to the foot of his bed. This ape has eaten the peaches, has drunk the nectar and also swallowed the pills of life. And that ape again, not a score of thousands from the monkey, his forebear. The boy slid to the ground as he spoke, but the ape first looked carefully about, sniffing the morning air. How are we to come into the place where this great ape lives? But other mandibles of the same kind of ape are very different. Reports of outbreaks of human metapneumovirus infection with respiratory symptoms have been documented in wild great ape populations. Show More Sentences With a start he sat up to see a huge, anthropoid ape squatting at his side, inspecting him intently. In the anthropoid ape we already find the family, but not the clan. Here's the divining ape and the show of the Release of Melisendra just coming. As the captain approached him the ape half rose and waddled forward to meet him. He struck the attitude of Wellington where he is made to ape Achilles, at Hyde-Park entrance, and was superb in it, without the shield. That scorns to stoop to billingsgate, or ape the bold bargee. This the ape at once laid hold of, and began to brandish like a hammer. Or did he already know that the colombian ape was Lee Bentley? It seems to lie between the ape and the human type of dentition. Thus the old ape imparted to the son of Tarzan the boy's first lesson in jungle lore. When Tantor trumpeted, the great ape scurried with his fellows high among the trees of the second terrace. He took his stand before the great ape and contemplated it for a moment. A great ape weighing hundreds of pounds, crying like a child! With a gasping shriek the king ape collapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimbly sidestepping from his grasp. In accomplishing this the ape was tearing away the entire front of its breast, which was held in the vise-like grip of the powerful jaws. That I left him alone for a few minutes, and that you sneaked in and the ape killed you. Then through the palace of the Count de Coude rang the awesome challenge of the bull ape that has made a kill. That he was weakening perceptibly was evident, but so also was the ape, whose struggles were growing momentarily less. With difficulty he kept the ape from her throat, and after a time succeeded in quelling her fears. He was white haired and looked like a great ape, she gasped. Show More Sentences The great ape, again left behind, had been altogether forgotten. Crouched close to the great ape in the crotch of a tree the boy had shivered through an almost sleepless night. Thersites, the ugliest of mortals, chose the form of an ape. The ape, however, proved no easy victim to the superior numbers that seemed fated to overwhelm him. The old ape thought that they were searching for a tribe of his own kind, nor did the boy disabuse his mind of this belief. The action reminded her disgustingly of a great ape she had once seen in a circus. The boy and the ape growled menacingly in chorus and the carnivore moved on. He was an ill-favoured, undersized, gruff sailor of fifty, coarsely hairy, short-legged, long-armed, resembling an elderly ape. The older ape, pessimistic by nature, recognized no such thing as humor. Already Go-lat saw in this young ape a possible contender for the laurels of his kingship and consequently the old bull looked upon Zu-tag with jealousy and disfavor. My carriers said it was the cry of a great bull ape who has made a kill. Then he would enjoy their consternation at sight of a naked white boy trapped in the war togs of a black warrior and roaming the jungle with only a great ape as his companion. I have killed one striped ape, and sure am I in my stomach that Shere Khan would have left his own mate for meat to the dhole if he had winded a pack across three ranges. Presently he found it beneath a picture of another little ape and a strange animal which went upon four legs like the jackal and resembled him not a little. As Tarzan drew nearer he called aloud to the ape and the girl heard from the human lips the same sounds that had fallen from those of the anthropoid. She had always been afraid of firearms, and would never touch them, but now she rushed toward the ape with the fearlessness of a lioness protecting its young. He had said nothing of this plan to Akut, for he knew that the old ape would look with displeasure upon any suggestion that savored of separation. In one section grew the plant man, in another a sixteen-legged worm, in the third the progenitor of the white ape and in the fourth the primaeval black man of Barsoom. When the boy saw the ape he hastened forward to exhibit his trophies. As the boy entered he saw the great ape squatting upon the bed, the coverlets of which were a tangled wad of filthy blankets and ill-smelling quilts. Show More Sentences The gorilla seemed puzzled by the strange passivity of the hairless ape. I can only hint of those vast and terrific vistas through which I have peered hazily at the progression of life, not upward from the ape to man, but upward from the worm. The ape shouted to him to come away, but the lad only flourished his spear and executed an improvised war dance to show his contempt for the king of beasts. The trail, which marked the passage of a good-sized company, pointed north at right angles to the course the boy and the ape were taking toward the coast. Markets operator Mrs Maby has restored Kong to an upright new base in her garden in Penrith after the ape lay discarded flat on his back in a nearby car park. If I had seen an Ape taking command of a Man, I should hardly have thought it a more degrading spectacle. In the forest of the table-land a mile back from the ocean old Kerchak the Ape was on a rampage of rage among his people. Together they slunk from the house, but no casual observer might have noted that one of them was an ape. They say it will change our ideas about our human ancestors and could be the famous missing link between man and ape. The Ape and all his court, gratified with the lie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer. At night we could hear from amid the trees the long-drawn cry, as some primitive Ezekiel mourned for fallen greatness and recalled the departed glories of Ape Town. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ape? Words that rhyme with ape What is the past tense of ape? What is the plural of ape? What is the adjective for ape? What is the noun for ape? Translations for ape Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words APC APB apatosaurus apatite apathy apathetically apeak apec APEC aped apelike ape-like 3-letter Words Starting With a ap