noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
creature comforts
shy creatures
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Deer are shy creatures .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
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His doe's a beautiful creature , too.
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Dominic remains, I would say, a preposterously beautiful creature .
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The Copper Beech Naiads were the most beautiful creatures any of them had ever seen.
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To me, Dominic was always a beautiful creature .
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It is the same with visual responses to light and darkness, to summer and winter, to beautiful creatures or plants.
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They were beautiful creatures with red legs, black head and thorax, and black white-ringed antennae.
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Even if I break your cage, I can't reach you, beautiful creature !
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At the sight they forgot the goddess and turned in pursuit of the beautiful creature .
different
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We can not say that there is a separate, solid, objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways.
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In each different place, he caught different furry creatures that I would never have known existed.
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You control our heroine Jill as she battles with different creatures in her search for weapons, gems and health giving food.
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Online services are very different creatures from Internet service providers.
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He was Mr Summerchild - an entirely different creature .
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There are many sequences of eyes in different creatures .
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Strange alloys can be made with ingredients from different creatures .
furry
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Pozzo was a small black furry creature that, years ago, had belonged to Henry.
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In each different place, he caught different furry creatures that I would never have known existed.
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Read in studio A pet lover with a passion for hamsters has let the furry creatures take over her terraced house.
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Edward Koren, whose furry creatures often defy links to any known species?
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You might see a group of these furry creatures in fields beside railway tracks.
large
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We know they were not large creatures and, probably, sought security by congregating.
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What is the largest air-breathing creature ever to inhabit the earth?
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This must be considered a bonus to the food resources available to any larger creatures .
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Consequently, the larger creatures that prey on them, the raptors, are fleeing starvation too.
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Simply by growing larger , creatures suffer a continual decrease in relative surface area.
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I crawl into my sleeping bag and drift off, listening to large creatures moving nearby in a dark sea.
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The invertebrates include quite large creatures , such as freshwater shrimps and crayfish.
little
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They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments.
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These little creatures are mostly white, in the tradition of the popular white child-like Snowbabies.
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And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless, the fateful twitching stilled at last.
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That little creature must have had a strength to survive that we can only guess at.
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These days, there is little doubt that creatures possess a mind structure.
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These tough little creatures had just walked a thousand kilometers or so on nothing but milk, chilli and flour.
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It means they can learn more about the lifestyle of the little creatures .
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I was beyond fury at this little creature , who had spoiled my chances at amassing a fortune of pink clay.
living
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This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature .
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The positive forms of living creatures express the internal pressure of their circulatory systems.
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The sensory and motor indriyas are an integral part of the internal mind configuration of all living creatures .
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Whether or not a particular form of radiation has any effect on a living creature depends upon three factors.
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The same, of course, applies to all interactions between living creatures , including human to human.
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The last thing I want is to impale this dancing, living creature upon the stake of meaning.
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That men are living creatures is a contingent fact.
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Like all living creatures because House Dust Mites eat, they also excrete.
other
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Many other creatures feed on the animals that feed in this way, or upon the animals that feed on them.
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Amuletic wands were carved from its teeth with the object of deterring snakes and other noxious creatures .
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So plants, quite naturally, have the ability to protect themselves from predators, just as all other creatures do.
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The other creatures screeched nervously, but they weren't running away.
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For Descartes, only humans had souls, animals and other creatures did not.
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There was a seal there in some water, a great herring gull with a damaged foot, and other creatures .
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Warriors of Chaos, human outcasts from the wars, flocked to join the Beastmen and other creatures of Chaos.
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But it was a place that drew other creatures to its calm, to rest awhile and find their strength again.
poor
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My poor creature , you see, is not like all the other grim shades who have preceded him.
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Oh, come in, come in, you poor creature .
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The poor creature must have wondered what was going on, as it was already fully airworthy!
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The poor creature lifted itself up on its wobbly front legs and then dragged its hindquarters behind it.
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She gave the poor creature a kick, then smiled at me with toothless gums.
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I shall do everything in my power to help these poor creatures .
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No doubt several of these poor creatures died.
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What d' you think you're doing exploiting the poor creature like this?
shy
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These shy creatures may sometimes be seen and have been known to stray on to the road, startling passing motorists.
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Would such a shy creature really prey on human offspring?
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The panda is a shy creature , not used to being in contact with other animals, particularly humans.
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This simple test showed that all mankind was one; but it was difficult to do with exotic or shy creatures .
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In the main they are shy creatures , though their speed, strength and agility demand a healthy respect.
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The plan will involve studying the behaviour of these shy nocturnal creatures which live in the thickest parts of woods.
small
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Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures .
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Or is it simply the way most adults have learned to approach small creatures ?
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The many small creatures of the oriental forests support a population of small predators.
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Then she notices a lady-bug or some such small creature and can not help but become fascinated by it.
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The bird, a small creature , abruptly fled.
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Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures .
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In the kitchen I scoured the cupboards, and poured disinfectant over small black creatures like woodlice.
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It is absolutely crucial to the lives of the small creatures that the rock is returned precisely where it was found.
strange
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They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments.
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The strange but arresting creatures become instant celebrities.
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He simply had no idea what these strange creatures could look like in the flesh.
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From there, he studied this strange creature more closely.
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Soon all my master's neighbours were talking about the strange little creature he had found in a field.
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But no person could command these strange creatures more than three times.
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What makes us strange creatures tick, Liz, do you know?
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Spinning bodies, eyes popping out of heads, hair standing on end, characters morphing into strange creatures .
tiny
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It was not possible that such a tiny creature could be showing such fearful strength; and yet it did.
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Directly below her were some tiny creatures crawling over the surface.
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How can a tiny creature like you have such inhuman, cruel ideas?
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Jackie sat on the edge of his bed, a tiny , spiky creature , utterly alone.
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Inside, the tiny creature skidded to a halt on the marble floor, terrified by the sudden din of the gathering.
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Maggie stared at people walking about far below, tiny creatures that could hardly be recognized.
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She loved this tiny creature so much she didn't know how to contain it, or how to show it enough.
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The sheer mass of Snotlings can overwhelm or tie down an enemy unit even if the tiny creatures don't cause many casualties!
wild
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The pair of them were wild , undisciplined creatures .
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Where great, wild creatures ranged, the vermin prosper.
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All wild creatures behave in the same way when presented with a cache of food and plenty of competition for it.
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They need help, my dear, as our wild creatures have needed help, and that is why I must go.
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Oh, wild creature , it's you I've dared to demand in the garden of paradise.
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The results are frequently fatal to the wild creatures .
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And be quick, watchful, clever, like a wild creature that must elude the hunters.
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They would tear to pieces the wild creatures they met and devour the bloody shreds of flesh.
■ NOUN
comfort
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His attitude towards creature comforts was demonstrated by his regimen in Downing Street.
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The crews made on-the-spot modifications to increase protection, firepower, or creature comforts .
sea
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It was like being the first sea creature to crawl on to the shore and discover his gills had become lungs.
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A gray gull carries some sea creature high up over the beach, drops it from its beak.
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Also unearthed - perfectly preserved examples of the food they lived off - literally hundreds of ammonites and other small sea creatures .
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As so often seemed to be the case, the cavorting sea creatures heralded bad weather.
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The sense of a deep sea creature , defined only by light, is very strong.
■ VERB
live
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Our perception of parrots as somehow our rightful property has been destructive for the living creature in its natural environment.
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This stated that living creatures multiply at a rate that exceeds the capacity of the environment to maintain them.
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And so on down the catalog of living creatures .
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There are many other ways of being a living creature .
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It was evening; not a house, not a living creature , was to be seen.
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Other odd patterns appear as different genes band together-as they must-to build a living creature .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dumb animals/creatures
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We would become like dumb animals, oxen, or go crazy, and probably both.
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Would that as many animal lovers were as quick to speak and defend dumb animals instead of staying silent as so many do.
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You don't have to look far to see these dumb creatures crawling across the branches of many organizations today.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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creatures of the deep
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The Housing Board was a creature of Mayor Beller's design.
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The movie's about creatures from outer space.
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They found a fossil of a small, sparrow-like creature .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they, like all creatures, clearly have their own inner life.
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Great big and fearsome Dimetrodon, a species of dinosaur, was the most powerful creature .
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Higher still up the Sizewell natural food chain is another creature we had gone especially to find-marine skuas.
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Jainism, a Hindu reform church, prohibits the killing of any living creature .
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The pull of the invisible creature grew stronger.
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The scale and spirit of the iron creatures on display brought to mind one image: mechanical dinosaurs without skin.
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They were rare, complex creatures of overwhelming confidence, persistence and ambition.