How to Use different beast in a Sentence

different beast

noun
  • So our off-air chemistry has been forged over years and years, but on air is a whole different beast.
    — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Nine years on, John Wick: Chapter 4 is a much different beast.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Grief was a different beast, one that couldn’t be overcome through will power alone.
    — Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024
  • From the get-go, Bottoms was a different beast than Shiva Baby.
    — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Game 7 of the finals is a different beast, but the Oilers are prepared to draw on that experience.
    — Bailey Johnson, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • Its boats may look like the wooden runabouts that slide happily across Lakes Tahoe and Como, but this is a far different beast.
    — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The Eagles’ push is a whole different beast, and can’t be as easily scouted as Allen is always running to his left.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • But here’s the problem: Being top-heavy can propel you through the regular season, but the Stanley Cup Playoffs are a different beast.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • With the exhaust wide open, all of a sudden the Cherokee transforms into an entirely different beast.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But the Joint Security Area is a slightly different beast.
    — Haley Britzky, CNN, 18 July 2023
  • Meta is a different beast, however, and Zuckerberg entering the ring with billions of users and the Instagram brand may give Musk some sleepless nights.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But the weather and shooting schedule was a different beast entirely.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Tournament Naeher is a different beast from any other level of her play.
    — Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • What has subsumed this type of interaction was a wholly different beast.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Adventure travel, of course, is a much different beast than Clooney’s pink-slipping weekday missions.
    — Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Normally, Leone would shoot at his own convenience, but being made to keep to schedule was a different beast entirely.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Training is a different beast, and yet nearly all of these new features are geared toward that while still catering to beginners and a more casual athlete.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Training is a different beast, and yet nearly all of these new features are geared toward that while still catering to beginners and a more casual athlete.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2024
  • But the cycle around Australia has been a different beast altogether, purely based on the sheer size of the country, much of which is remote and uninhabited.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Grizzly bears were an entirely different beast: large, wild, dangerous, much less goofy.
    — Hillary Richard, Vogue, 1 July 2024
  • Voice assistants, especially ones connected to devices and services in our phones and homes, are a different beast than a chatbot in a browser.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 June 2024
  • Compromise The original version of Umberg’s bill included sober living homes, which don’t have to be licensed by anyone and are thus a different beast.
    — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Antarctic sea ice is a different beast, ringing a polar continent rather than growing from the center of a polar sea, and a number of factors cause its behavior to be complex.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
  • College football, though, is a completely different beast, especially in this new NIL world.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Thru-hiking is a different beast from day hiking or regular backpacking.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • Reporting trips are a different beast from personal travel and sometimes more heightened.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
  • This is a totally different animal and a different beast.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Beyond the overt physical differences—such as the steroidal aerodynamic enhancements, the tattooed race livery graphics, and the massive rear wing—the race version of the 296 feels like an entirely different beast.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Instagram, though very popular, is a different beast, more about social networking than photography, and doesn't have things like EXIF or even full-size viewing.
    — PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Although she was accustomed to high-pressure situations, Vogue World: London was a slightly different beast.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023

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