Example Sentences

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We evolved from predecessors who had differently shaped skulls and often heavier builds, but were otherwise much more like us than, say, the ape-men that came before them.

From Time • Jun. 7, 2017

There are discoveries to be made and mysteries to be solved, but not of lake serpents and preternaturally hard-to-photograph ape-men.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2012

The representatives of the advanced, scientific, galaxy-spanning organization were now the bad guys, and the heroes were positively medieval -- hereditary princes and princesses, wizards and ape-men.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2011

The remains of giant ape-men have been found in southeastern Asia, and the yetis may be their descendants.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still comes out of his chasm at intervals and preys upon the ape-men, but no one of our race has seen him for thousands of years, and he has always let us alone.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various