How to Use T. rex in a Sentence

T. rex

noun

• In life, those dinosaurs ranged in size from house cat to T. rex.
  — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• Hector, at about 10 feet long, is much smaller than the 40 feet of a T. rex.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• So to find a T. rex at all, and to find one this complete, is truly special.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 6 June 2024
• But the singing and dancing T. rex, who rose to global fame in the 1990s as a symbol of love and inclusion, doesn’t look quite the same.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• In a news conference on Monday, the three boys agreed that the T. rex was their favorite species of dinosaur.
  — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• And the rock it was found in suggests the animal was alive much earlier than T. rex.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
• Koller had said Tuesday’s sale was the first time such a T. rex skeleton went up for auction in Europe.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• Sotheby’s said the T. rex skull is one of the most complete ever discovered.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Tuesday's sale was the first time such a T. rex skeleton went up for auction in Europe, said the auction house, Koller.
  — CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
• Its distinct jaw shape could mean the species ate a different diet than T. rex did.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• With its mouth closed, all of the enormous teeth of T. rex would be invisible behind its lips.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• So your bid of fifty dollars was just shy of the $6.1-million hammer price of the T. rex skull sold at Sotheby’s this December.
  — Francesca Carington, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Find 10 life-size dinosaurs, including a 46-foot-tall T. rex, placed along a half-mile nature trail called the Laughlin Loop.
  — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
• My generation, for the most part, can’t picture T. rex with any feathers at all.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• By the last few million years of the dinosaurs’ reign, however, the larger T. rex replaced these lineages.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The bones in Trinity date to around 67 million years ago, when T. rex ruled in western North America.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
• The ankylosaur wielded its sledgehammer-like tail club against predators such as T. rex.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
• King Kong’s influence on stop-motion — and fight cinema in general — has been felt since the second that T. rex’s limp body hit the ground.
  — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
• The dinosaurs included are T. rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and others.
  — Katie Melynn, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022
• Visitors can touch and hold real fossils, take a closer look at the nation’s T. rex, and see researchers at work in the FossiLab.
  — Adele Chapin, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Next month, a T. rex skull is estimated to fetch between $15 million and $20 million.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• This research is the latest in a long back-and-forth over how dinosaur mouths really looked and is not the first time depictions of the T. rex and dinosaurs have been called into question.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Theropods were a group of bipedal, often carnivorous creatures that includes T. rex and all modern birds.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
• Lips are likely rare on the T. rexes of the popular imagination.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• All of these have been argued to represent adolescent T. rex, Dr. Longrich said.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Replica bones from Stan, another T. rex, were used to create Shen, but the original listing did not disclose this.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
• Over the last several years, more stereotypical portrayals of the T. rex have been debunked.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• Theropods are a class of large, three-toed, carnivorous dinosaurs that include the T. rex, though the bones discovered at Dinosaur Park predate the famous dinosaur.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• And here is the most surprising thing that all those ten-year-olds plus pretty much everyone else on the planet know about T. rex: the creature’s proper scientific name.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Researchers have long contended that Daspletosaurus, a rare species of theropod found in Montana, may have later evolved into T. rex.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024