How to Use brontosaurus in a Sentence

brontosaurus

noun

• For years after the park closed, the skeleton of the Big Plunge towered over I-25 like the neck of a brontosaurus.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2020
• The group with reptile-like hips is called Saurischia (saw-RIS’-kee-a), and includes the brontosaurus.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
• On one side, there’s a T-rex that is 30 feet tall, on the other side is a brontosaurus that is 39 feet tall.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• Sauropods' species include the popularized brontosaurus and were known for their long necks and tails.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
• Two full-figured men snacking on brontosaurus burgers, married to women with waists that are the same size as their necks.
  — Katie Musgrave, refinery29.com, 20 May 2020
• Yale’s brontosaurus is a historic one — the first ever discovered.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• Their bestselling Freel Shorts, which come in pineapple, cactus, or brontosaurus prints, have nearly sold out.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 17 May 2018
• Trip skids across the floor at Hinkle Fieldhouse before games, finding his brontosaurus-sized bone and standing with it in front of the Butler bench seconds before tipoff.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2020
• To produce the rumbles of that big brontosaurus, Sennheiser’s Ambeo uses six 4-inch woofers and a pair of 3.5-inch mids to bounce deep tones off the walls and ceiling, nixing the need for a dedicated subwoofer.
  — Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2020
• An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2020
• There’s a scene in Fallen Kingdom that will stay with me for a little while: a lone brontosaurus, standing on a shore nearly engulfed in ash and flame, stretching its long neck up to the sky and braying out a mournful plaint.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 5 June 2018
• Different footprints had been found three years earlier, ones that date back 170 million years and survived as evidence of giant sauropods–likely ancestors of the later brontosaurus–that would wander through the isle's lagoons.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 3 Apr. 2018
• The latest attraction at the Volo Auto Museum is not a car — but a dinosaur, actually dozens of animatronic dinosaurs including a 30-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex and a 35-foot tall brontosaurus.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• Giant brontosauruses, velociraptors, and multiple tyrannosaurus can be seen outside on the business' 8 acres and within its giant facility.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018

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