Example Sentences

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The result is visually striking story from Cameron, where again, visual effects has hidden in plain sight despite 9-foot-tall lemur-like creatures appearing on screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2023

Its plans called for 3,800 species of plants and animals, including hummingbirds and lemur-like primates called bush babies.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2019

The episode in question, which aired in Japan earlier this year, follows Ash and his friends as they meet a group of lemur-like Pokémon called Passimian that are terrorizing a nearby town.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2018

The decline in the populations of these lemur-like primates has traditionally been related to rampant habitat loss as the jungles are cleared or agriculture such as commercial cashew and palm oil plantations and rice paddies.

From Time • Jul. 17, 2014

The lemur-like animals, Nycticebus, Tarsius, and Galeopithecus, are found on all the islands.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel