How to Use dinosaur in a Sentence
dinosaur
noun- The old factory is now a rusting dinosaur.
- The character she plays is a dinosaur—a former beauty queen who is living in the past.
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Did dinosaur blood run cold, like a lizard, or warm, like a bird?
— Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022 -
Cardi B also shared a series of photos with dinosaur, bear, and wave emojis as the caption.
— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2022 -
In the caption to the post, Cardi tacked on a trio of emoji that included a dinosaur, crashing wave and teddy bear.
— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2022 -
Paffumi says Johnson will show up at meets in dinosaur feet and won't race without his mask on, even though everybody else is maskless.
— Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022 -
This impressive and well-known dinosaur has one odd feature: its disproportionately small arms.
— Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2022 -
Scientists claim to have found the remains of a dinosaur that was killed on the day a massive asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago.
— Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2022 -
Crocodiles, lizards, turtles, and even today's dinosaur—birds—at their very largest are still far from comparable to the juggernaut titanosaurs.
— Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2022 -
According to the team, the study addresses a 30-million-year gap in our understanding of dinosaur evolution.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024 -
The book points out that while the most famous extinction event - caused by a massive meteorite - took out the dinosaurs, other extinction events can be traced back to climate change and to the presence of humans.
— Anna Broughel, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024 -
The Big John specimen is among a growing list of immense dinosaur fossils going for exorbitant amounts of money to private buyers.
— New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022 -
In life, those dinosaurs ranged in size from house cat to T. rex.
— Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023 -
The light my scope had caught had been en route to us since around the time the first dinosaurs emerged on Earth.
— PCMAG, 16 May 2024 -
The first-look deal is going to be a dinosaur very soon.
— Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023 -
Experts said the dinosaurs may have laid eggs there because of the warm ground.
— Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023 -
Come to the park for a few close encounters with a dinosaur.
— cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022 -
There are a lot of strange-looking dinosaurs out there.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024 -
The high bidder also won the right to name the dinosaur’s skeleton.
— Vimal Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022 -
Her son was wearing a blue T-shirt with a dinosaur print, and blue pants.
— Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2024 -
Choosing the best dinosaur toy for your kid is no easy task.
— Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022 -
The entire arm of Meraxes is less than half the length of the dinosaur’s thigh bone.
— Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 -
Kids can smash their way through the shell and the compound inside to dig out the pieces of a buildable dinosaur.
— Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023 -
Not to mention pagers and fax machines have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, too.
— Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Bring along your favorite dinosaur to learn and have fun.
— John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 19 May 2022 -
The themes of past boxes include dinosaurs, the zoo, and weather.
— Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023 -
To some, with his how-slow-can-you-go body movements, Lowry is a dinosaur.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022 -
The monarch walks out of the Abbey and into that dinosaur gold coach carrying both scepters.
— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023 -
And the only branding on the bag is the very cool skeletal dinosaur/bird-type thing that is the Arc’teryx logo.
— Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 9 Oct. 2024 -
This species was a plant eater, but other dinosaurs were meat eaters or ate both.
— Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
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