How to Use amphibian in a Sentence

amphibian

noun

• The team spotted the amphibian on its rock near a stream.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• The good feelings stretch back to the Aztecs, who named the amphibian after Xolotl, the god of monsters.
  — Sarah E. Needleman and Salvador Rodriguez, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• The amphibians are a subspecies of frog (all toads are frogs; not all frogs are toads).
  — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Across 92 tracks, the sonorous amphibians strike up all manner of din: chirps, croaks, barks, chirrups, beeps, honks, buzzes, squawks, blips, whines, and grunts.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
• On a rural spread in the south of France, the kids climb trees, jump for joy and examine insects and amphibians.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• The concept of victimhood is to Bran as the concept of a glacier is to a jungle-dwelling amphibian.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022
• To keep them from drying out, most amphibians will lay their eggs in water.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• On the day Alexa visited, Michelle Koo took her to her favorite room - the amphibians and reptiles.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 4 Jan. 2024
• The amphibian has a wide, gentle smile, which encourages the author to smile even when things get tough.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
• The amphibian is able to dodge his pursuer by cleverly hiding in a snail shell until the snake gives up the hunt.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2022
• And Prince Naveen has also been turned into an amphibian by an evil force!
  — Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
• Wood frogs, which exist from the Brooks Range all the way south to Georgia, are the only amphibians in northern Alaska.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
• Zooming in on amphibians: Which is the smallest vertebrate in the world?
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• The amphibians star in a series of easy readers first published in the 1970s by author Arnold Lobel.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• While conducting track work in the park, the rangers stopped their vehicle to avoid a snake and noticed the colossal amphibian.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
• The release of the southern mountain yellow-legged frogs on Aug. 29 and 30 capped a trademark breeding process at the zoo, where the eggs of the rare amphibian are pampered and hatched.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Everyone's favorite green amphibian took some time out of his busy schedule to chat with EW about his turn on the show.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• The accident left over a million fish and tens of thousands of crayfish and amphibians dead.
  — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2023
• Here, the precursors of frog skin sidle up to cells that, in another life, might have helped an amphibian’s heart beat.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
• But when an amphibian gets run over by a car, the death usually goes unnoticed.
  — Joanna Lentini, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• This suggested that at least parts of the DVR evolved from the pallium of an ancestor shared with amphibians.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• These arachnids can't fly or jump but rather wait for a host -- whether it be a mammal, bird, reptile or amphibian -- to feed on while resting on the tips of grasses and shrubs.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 8 Jan. 2020
• The Wind in the Willows is a moving tale of friendship among a madcap amphibian and the three considerate creatures who put up with him.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 29 Jan. 2023
• This led them to suggest that the amphibians might play a role in carrying pollen from bloom to bloom, aiding the tree’s reproduction.
  — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 6 May 2023
• More than 255 million years ago, in what’s now South Africa, enormous amphibians floated and swam through the ancient shallows.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• The amphibian is one of the largest toads found in north America, measuring up to 7 inches, according to the Facebook post.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
• Bosom serpent, a snake, lizard or amphibian that resides within the chest.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
• But in the end, shivering in the dark with only amphibians for company wasn’t such a big mistake after all.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 15 Oct. 2019
• After spotting a target, keep the light trained on its eyes, which serves to effectively blind and confuse the amphibian.
  — Johnny Sain, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2020
• Of all the amphibians surveyed, salamanders and newts were the most threatened, the authors discovered.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024