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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The entire arm of Meraxes is less than half the length of the dinosaur’s thigh bone.
— Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 -
Of course, the classics, like a suspiciously adorable dinosaur, can't be ruled out either.
— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
The grill alone — long metal teeth, like custom dentures for a dinosaur — is worth $5,000.
— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2024 -
The fossil is in great shape and contains new evidence that can help researchers better understand this species of dinosaur.
— Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2022 -
National letters of intent have gone the way of typewriters, rotary telephones and dinosaurs.
— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024 -
The Plesiosaurs developed four wing-like flippers that twisted to propel the dinosaur forward.
— Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2022 -
The dinosaur lived in the western part of North America roughly 77 million years ago.
— Carlie Porterfield, Forbes, 5 July 2022 -
Some of Mile High Farms’ past designs have included a witch, a unicorn and a pumpkin-eating dinosaur.
— Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Kids and adults can experience the Zombie Trail of Terror, thrill rides, haunted dinosaurs, face painting and more.
— Joe Guillen, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024 -
Previous research found that dinosaur species such as M. gigas and T. rex developed smaller arms as their heads became larger.
— Jack Guy, CNN, 7 July 2022 -
Carcharodontosaurid refers to a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaur species.
— Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 7 July 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
This species was a plant eater, but other dinosaurs were meat eaters or ate both.
— Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023 -
But dinosaurs were still a long time away from roaming Earth when S2 crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago.
— Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024 -
The city has been rolling out the welcome mat for weeks, and even the dinosaurs at the Children's Museum are rocking friendship bracelets.
— Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2024
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