How do you use Monkey in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like primate or nipper, plus the exact meaning.
Monkey in a sentence
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Monkey meaning
- A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- Any simian, including humans.
- Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
Synonyms of Monkey
Using Monkey
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches. | Any simian, including humans. | Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- Useful related words include: primate, small fry, nipper, shaver.
- In the example corpus, monkey often appears in combinations such as: the monkey, of monkey, monkey island.
Context around Monkey
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Monkey
- In this selection, "monkey" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, capuchin, vervet, organisation, island, dna and rescue stand out and add context to how "monkey" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a yellow monkey had been and an invisible monkey that lives. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "monkey" sits close to words such as bello, doubling and encouragement, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with monkey
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Standing at number one on the list is Monkey World, a 65-acre ape rescue centre and monkey sanctuary. (19 words)
There’s no more cheekier monkey than the coke-snorting, sex-addict monkey that we find in the movie. (19 words)
Freelance journalist Luis Chaparro shared an image of the baby monkey on X (formerly Twitter) and wrote: "A new narco monkey. (21 words)
Capuchin Monkey - "Raiders of the Lost Ark" The Indiana Jones question that has plagued fans for decades centers on the capuchin monkey perched on the shoulder of a Nazi soldier that manages to do the Seig Heil salute. (38 words)
In the roguelike Dungeons of Dredmor a number of references to the Monkey Island series are made, including a drink called Grog which has the same ingredient list as the grog mentioned in the Secret of Monkey Island. (38 words)
In case you’re not familiar, the infinite monkey theorem provides that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter given an infinite amount of time will almost surely type the complete works of William Shakespeare. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Earlier this month, locally based Vervet Monkey rescue organisation, Monkey Helpline (MH), received information from concerned Queensburgh residents that a “yellow” monkey had been seen in the Northdene and Escombe area.
Freelance journalist Luis Chaparro shared an image of the baby monkey on X (formerly Twitter) and wrote: "A new narco monkey.
Standing at number one on the list is Monkey World, a 65-acre ape rescue centre and monkey sanctuary.
The monkey bit Mohd on the neck and caused him to scream, raising the alarm with neighbours who were able to drive the monkey off.
The phone line to My Monkey Home never picked up but Liam says he got a text soon after, so Liam played coy and asked the man on the other line about buying a monkey.
There’s no more cheekier monkey than the coke-snorting, sex-addict monkey that we find in the movie.
Capuchin Monkey - "Raiders of the Lost Ark" The Indiana Jones question that has plagued fans for decades centers on the capuchin monkey perched on the shoulder of a Nazi soldier that manages to do the Seig Heil salute.
In case you’re not familiar, the infinite monkey theorem provides that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter given an infinite amount of time will almost surely type the complete works of William Shakespeare.
The scientists are aiming to repeat the experiments to create healthy animals with higher concentrations of monkey DNA and to eventually reproduce an animal with an organ containing only monkey DNA.
Today Ozyesilpinar's abusive messages appear to have continued, with curses including: 'You want that banana, Africa?', 'Monkey know what tree to climb' and 'you are not a monkey you are an orangutan' sent across the Atlantic.
Evolutionary biologist told Popular Science, that while in Kenya, he'd noticed a monkey found near Mount Kenya, the patas monkey, that bore a strong resemblance to the fictional Lorax.
Monkey 47 is loved by Aficionados, bartenders, and connoisseurs around the world, and now in Nigeria, who have come to appreciate the incredible complexity and harmony of Monkey 47.
This seems backwards to me: we can enjoy monkey pleasures too, and we have removed many of the limitations of being a monkey.
A different avenue for exploring the analogy between evolution and an unconstrained monkey lies in the problem that the monkey types only one letter at a time, independently of the other letters.
Another monkey was provided an opportunity to obtain the food after watching a monkey go through this process on four separate occasions.
Another story in Portraits of His Children were the "The Monkey Treatment" about an invisible monkey that lives on the back of an obese man who eats all of the food that the man attempts to eat.
In the roguelike Dungeons of Dredmor a number of references to the Monkey Island series are made, including a drink called Grog which has the same ingredient list as the grog mentioned in the Secret of Monkey Island.
Since the first game in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island, three of the games have visited the eponymous island of Monkey Island, while all have introduced their own set of islands to explore.
The Curse of Monkey Island introduces three, and Escape from Monkey Island, which revisits some of the older islands, features three new islands as well.
The Curse of Monkey Island main The Curse of Monkey Island, the third in the series, was exclusively available for PC Windows in 1997 after a 6-year hiatus.
Common combinations with monkey
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the monkey 36×
- of monkey 16×
- monkey island 12×
- monkey luffy 9×
- monkey is 8×
- monkey and 8×
- monkey wrench 7×
- and monkey 6×
- monkey that 6×
- monkey in 6×