Gorilla famously taught to use sign language

Usage examples of koko.

Denise was elated that I had found Koko so quickly and was hopeful that this might be an early break.

The entire house was dark except for the dim orange lamplight in the room off to my right, and Koko was still nothing more than a shadow.

It would be easy to find Koko guilty of an overactive imagination, but now I had a dark hunch of my own.

That Koko, even with her long experience in libraries, had found it in one afternoon was not a good sign.

To me this was strong proof, but for Koko to publish anything serious we would need more than that.

Yesterday he had put it in the paper that Koko had apparently gone to Charleston.

Archer when I got back and Koko was gazing at the same stupid TV fare with the volume off.

I got up, motioned Koko to come with me, and we followed him across the lobby to the elevators.

We found a drugstore on Rutledge Avenue and I ordered coffees except for Koko, who had some awful-looking carrot juice concoction.

Erin and I ate the pizza while Koko feasted on nuts and seeds and scoops of yummy-looking gray stuff from a plastic bag.

We four laughed as if we were old college classmates, and Koko watched us like a dorm mom, quietly amused from a chair by the door.

I told them how Josephine had come into my bookstore, how I had met Erin at the home of a Denver judge, and how Koko had been involved in Baltimore long before any of us.

Our seating was scattered: I sat three rows behind Erin, mashed against the window by a bad-tempered fat woman who sprawled across all three seats, and Koko was out of sight, somewhere near the front.

I introduced him to Koko and we were shuffled into his library, taking soft chairs in the friendly environment of great books.

Erin took something sweet, Koko asked for water, and I had bourbon on the rocks.