How to Use monkey in a Sentence

monkey

noun
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  • I've got this monkey on my back, and going to detox is the only way to get it off.
  • He's quite a cheeky little monkey, isn't he?
  • The kids were sent links that when clicked, would open images of the N-word and monkeys.
    — Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The same type of cut was found in the area housing the zoo's langurs, a small breed of monkey.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
  • And not just a monkey, but the sounds of a monkey to emphasize it!
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 May 2023
  • The same type of cut was also found in the area housing the zoo's langurs, a small breed of monkey.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2023
  • But getting there this time was no monkey off of Dixon's back.
    — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2023
  • No charges in the langur monkey case have been announced.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the top picture, a number of monkeys are located on and around a car.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 July 2023
  • The miracle happened: The monkey returned the baby and the light at the top of the tower has been burning since.
    — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Visit Monkey Park: Don’t let the name fool you, there’s more than just monkeys here.
    — Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The Angels have featured a monkey jumping up and down on their video boards since 2000.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Always that monkey on your back saying do it, do it, just have fun and f— it.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The monkeys hadn’t escaped, but zoo officials worried that the worst was still to come.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • For six years, scientists around the globe searched for a safe home for the endangered monkeys.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 26 July 2023
  • This is the same for most land mammals: cats, dogs, monkeys, horses, cows, and hippos.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The park also had a zoo, where people could see bears, lions, monkeys and more.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Black players are still taunted with racial slurs and monkey sounds.
    — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • There would only be monkeys here, and deer there and rabbits in between.
    — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Riding of deer by the monkeys of Yakushima Island is rare, but not unheard-of.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The high priest had to work double duty leading the prayers and making sure the monkeys didn’t steal our belongings!
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Lauren Goode: Because what did those poor pigs and sheeps and monkeys ever do to Elon Musk to deserve that?
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • By the early 1970s, the virus, which by then was known to infect small mammals besides monkeys, had spread to humans as well.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Much like monkeys swinging from branch to branch, some parrots can swing through the trees with the greatest of ease, scientists have learned.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • One of the monkeys grabbed the cable and started taking photos, which panned out to be adorable monkey selfies.
    — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In another, the habitat of some langur monkeys was cut open.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2024
  • In Italy, where monkey chants swirled in April as a Black player celebrated a goal.
    — Tales Azzoni and Steve Douglas, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2023
  • Dozens of grazing deer perk up their ears, then join in the staccato warning screeches of the langur monkeys and birds high up in the trees.
    — Charukesi Ramadurai, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Earlier this year, a 3-year-old boy was abducted by a monkey that carried the child up a cliff.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023

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