How to Use anole in a Sentence

anole

noun

• The green anole lizard looks like a skinny, four-legged lime.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
• Until 20 years ago, the island was home to a single anole species.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 30 July 2020
• In the absence of trees the anoles had been using boulders to sun themselves and to display in search of mates.
  — Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2018
• Geneva said anoles lay a single egg every one to two weeks.
  — Cristela Guerra, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Peterson said, before pulling out the green anole lizard.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• The researchers plan on further looking into how the behavior evolved in the anole lizards.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
• For the record, she has been bitten by an octopus, an anole lizard, wild mice, voles and a cardinal.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• An anole lizard dives using a clever trick to breathe underwater.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
• Green anoles are brightly colored lizards that can easily switch their coloration from green to brown.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 3 Aug. 2017
• And unlike the colorful green anole, the Texas spiny lizard keeps a low profile by blending in with its surroundings rather than sticking out.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Cox said these hilltops — now islands — are hotter and dryer than the anole’s usual habitat deep in the rainforest.
  — Alex Harris Miami Herald (tns), al, 1 Jan. 2023
• The small-bodied bark anole (Anolis distichus) eats ants crawling along trunks, while the larger knight anole (Anolis equestris) pursues insects and fruit in the upper canopy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• This was true across 188 different species of anole scattered across the Caribbean as well as Central and South America.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
• The researchers also noted that the air bubble stuck onto the anole lizard's hydrophobic, or water-repelling, scales.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
• Researchers who wear orange catch more anoles, and Australia began culling thousands of camels with helicopter snipers.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Meanwhile, the green anoles on islands without brown anoles did not develop the larger, stickier pads.
  — Bill Kearney, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2024
• Researchers placed six different anole species into tanks filled with water to see how the evolutionary trick worked.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
• Share [Findings] Researchers who wear orange catch more anoles, and Australia began culling thousands of camels with helicopter snipers.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• Share [Findings] Researchers who wear orange catch more anoles, and Australia began culling thousands of camels with helicopter snipers.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• To find out, the team used photos from natural history collections to measure a lot of lizard feet—some 188 different anole lizard species were assessed.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
• For the past two years, more than 1,000 anole lizards from six Caribbean islands have populated rows of tall, narrow, and extremely humid tanks on campus.
  — Cristela Guerra, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The grip strength of anole lizards on Dominica increased tenfold following Hurricane Maria.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Cox is currently watching another type of lizard — the Panamanian slender anole — do just that.
  — Alex Harris Miami Herald (tns), al, 1 Jan. 2023
• Cox is currently watching another type of lizard — the Panamanian slender anole — do just that.
  — Alex Harris Miami Herald (tns), al, 1 Jan. 2023
• The behavioral ecologist studies Anolis sagrei, the brown anole, a small lizard native to the Caribbean and introduced in Florida.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
• The anole lizards that dot many islands of the Caribbean are a natural evolutionary experiment.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2016
• As a result, anole lizards have become a key scientific model for research into how reptiles develop and evolve.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2019
• By contrast, the anole lizards’ story is disquieting in its intimacy.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Swierk was honored a second time as runner-up in this category for the above image depicting an anole lizard diving using a clever trick to breathe underwater.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
• The animals, which were all legal to own, included fish, geckos, anoles, chinchillas, parakeets, cockatiels, a rabbit, rats, a ball python, a European glass lizard, hamsters, a frog, and a water dragon.
  — Gage Miskimen, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024