


(B) the penetration of the genitals or the anus of another person with an object.

(A) any contact between any part of the genitals of one person and the mouth or anus of another person or These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bestial.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Julianne Mcshane, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019 Late cast bronze sculptures look both botanical and bestial. 2020 Some distance between the source and the story would have benefited the themes at play, which end up buried beneath punches, slurs and bestial masculinity.Ĭarlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2020 Abolitionists claimed that the eloquence of slaves and Africans proved their equal humanity, but most Europeans had long taken for granted that black utterances were inherently inferior, even bestial.įara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. Gene Seymour, CNN, Lincoln’s opponents tarred him with racist and bestial characterizations.Ĭalvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021 Such epiphanies, though bookended in Wright's novel between the bestial horrors of its first section and the abject bleakness of its third, are what give the novel its lasting glow. 2021 The streaks provide proof of our mundane bestial reality-our hormones, our lunch, our particular whorls and spirals. 2021 On the Foo Fighters’ second album, The Colour and the Shape, Grohl ended up rerecording songs with his own bestial drumming in place of Goldsmith’s, and suddenly tracks that hadn’t been working sounded like instant modern-rock classics.īrian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. Recent Examples on the Web Our reduced olfactory apparatus was the detritus of a bestial and benighted past, and an allegory of our enlightenment.
