How to Use gorilla in a Sentence

gorilla

noun
  • She hired some gorilla as her bodyguard.
  • See the video above for a look at the adorable young gorillas.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 26 July 2023
  • Sully the gorilla is 8 years old and was thought to be a male.
    — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • The play does not show the encounter between the child and the gorilla, nor the shooting of Harambe.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 4 June 2021
  • The baby, who doesn’t yet have a name, is the first gorilla born at the zoo in more than 20 years.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The front plate of one of his books showed a gorilla bending a rifle in half and killing the hunter.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Harambe dragged the boy around the enclosure, and the child was with the gorilla for about 10 minutes.
    — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But then how does the wolf wind up bigger than the gorilla?
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The dead gorilla is lashed with vines to secure his arms and legs.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
  • The dead gorilla is lashed with vines to secure his arms and legs.
    — Jenna Wortham Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Jamie Lauren Keiles Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The dead gorilla is lashed with vines to secure his arms and legs.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
  • As the number of gorillas rose, so did the number of tourists.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • No amount of talking, though, will make the gorilla slink away.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • When gorillas are found struggling with snares, the vets are called in to clean wounds.
    — Christina Larson, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
  • And if a gorilla’s consciousness does shift, what would that be like to the ape?
    — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Boy or girl:An Ohio zoo thought one of their gorillas was male.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But the lore of what Godzilla stands for means more than any large gorilla.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Bauer is not the gorilla in the room except when writers bring it up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • But the gorilla is scared off when the snake begins to slither.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2021
  • The giant lemurs died off long ago, around 350 B.C. and were as large as gorillas.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • In all, 35 gorillas have been born at the Columbus Zoo.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 4 July 2024
  • Kraven the Hunter can climb sheer walls like a gorilla, snatch fish out of streams like a bear and outrun deer.
    — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The book even comes with a punch-out cardboard gorilla mask.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • In the comics, decades ago, M’Baku was the silverback gorilla.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Koko the gorilla earned her pronouns a long, long time ago.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 June 2018
  • Praline was the last gorilla born at Audubon Zoo, in 1996.
    — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • This will be the first gorilla birth at Audubon Zoo in 24 years and the first offspring for 13-year-old Tumani.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 July 2020
  • The Saudis see themselves as the big gorilla in the region.
    — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • AudioQuest, the 800-pound gorilla of the industry, makes a full range of products at all price points from affordable to just-plain-silly.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In other words, the energy available to orangutans and gorillas may not be sufficient to support greater levels of activity and social behavior—and meat might be to blame.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025

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