“It's just the monster under your bed. In your closet, in your head. Exit light, enter night.”

“Dr. Victor Frankenstein tried to create life but would instead create a monster.”

“Prosecutors were determined to put the inhuman monster behind bars for his heinous crimes.”

“The reptilian monstrosity shook off the vines with total ease, body curled up beneath the neck, and tail stretched out behind it, rattling noisily.”

“The terrifying monstrosity was standing in the team's way in the middle of a dark clearing. It possessed pure white eyes with an oversized red-painted mouth, displaying yellowed sharp teeth.”

“The shelter was an unsightly monstrosity, sticking up as it did from the center of tiny back gardens.”

“The word homicide is wholly inadequate to convey the monstrousness of such a culture.”

“Did the war make him monstrous, or was the war a product of his monstrousness?”

“In my mind, anyway, it assumed a sort of monstrousness, as if it were a living thing, huge and unrecognizable.”

““I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization.”

“Although Ezekiel shares with other biblical authors this view of Egypt as a monster, Ezekiel's monstrification of Egypt is unique.”

“The doors, befittingly, were huge, wooden monstrosities that creaked and led into a small atrium, with two more doors at the other end.”

“Things get nasty as one by one the inhabitants of the house fall prey to the ever increasing hoard of pustular monstrosities.”

“A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.”

“Like coming eye to eye with the monsters under your bed or the demons in your closet.”

“He studied the saliva of Gila monsters because lizards sense prey with their tongues.”

“One of the monsters hissed at the other, revealing twin rows of razor-sharp teeth.”