41 Simple Sentences About Animals

These 41 simple sentences about animals can be used to enhance and expand our English vocabulary, and to sound closer to a native speaker.

If you are learning English and would like some beginner example sentences, this is the place for you! The topic of animals is a very interesting one. Did you know cats have a grand total of no fewer than 32 muscles in each ear? Amazing!  

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Simple sentences about animals: small creatures

The first five of our simple sentences about animals will focus on small creatures. Which small creature do you like?

1. I saw three rabbits in the field.
2. Those rabbits live in a burrow over there.
3. Guinea pigs make very cute pets.
4. Hamsters are very cute animals, and also fun to have as pets.
5. Chihuahuas are very intelligent little dogs.

Simple sentences about animals: medium-sized creatures

The next five of our simple lines on animals will focus on medium-sized animals such as pigs, badgers, and beavers.

1. There are eight pigs living on the farm.
2. Those pigs over there are making a loud noise!
3. There are some beavers living in that dam over there.
4. Badgers can be found in the UK.
5. Badgers live in burrows.

Simple sentences about animals: large-sized creatures

We will now make some easy and simple sentences about animals involving large-sized creatures.

1. There are several big cows in the field.
2. The farmer also keeps bulls.
3. Camels live in the desert.
4. Those horses are eating grass.
5. I can see some deer through the trees there.

Talk about animals with adjectives

Let’s make some lines on animals using adjectives. The adjectives we will use are as follows:

fast

slow

beautiful

tall

graceful

1. Cheetahs are fast animals.
2. Tortoises are very slow animals.
3. That butterfly is incredibly beautiful.
4. Giraffes are very tall animals.
5. The way the flamingos walk is so graceful.

Talk about animals with verbs

Now let’s make five simple sentences about animals using verbs. The verbs we will practice are:

walk

swim

fly

run

hunt

1. The cat is walking along the garden fence.
2. Those fish can swim fast.
3. Homing pigeons fly from the base to the location and back again.
4. Although my dog is small, he can run so fast!
5. Leopards are quite solitary animals, so they like to hunt alone.

Talk about animals with prepositions

Now let’s make some lines on animals using prepositions. The prepositions will use are as follows: on, in, over, through, across 

1. If you look on top of that garden shed, you can see a cat.
2. There are some rabbits in that field, over there.
3. The cat jumped over the garden fence.
4. The deer walked through the forest nervously.
5. The ducks swam across the small pond.

Simple sentences about animals: sea creatures

Now we will look at 6 lines on animals we can find in the sea.

1. Sharks live in the sea.
2. I like to watch whales.
3. Do you like to eat shellfish?
4. I just saw a school of dolphins.
5. Sea fishing is a hobby I enjoy very much. 
6. There are many fish in the sea.

Simple lines on African animals

To finish off our simple sentences about animals today, let’s focus on five expressions about African animals.

1. Lions hunt in a pride.
2. That hippopotamus looks very dangerous.
3. The giraffe is such a graceful animal.
4. That cheetah is fast.
5. Those buffalo are big.

Simple sentences aimed at beginner students of English

I hope you have enjoyed today’s simple sentences about animals. We have covered all kinds of animals from small to large and also tackled some English grammar concepts such as adjectives, verbs, and prepositions.