How to Use monitor lizard in a Sentence

monitor lizard

noun

• Still, birds, snakes, and monitor lizards are among the main predators of the bluetongue skink.
  — Shane Black, National Geographic, 8 June 2018
• This gigantic species of monitor lizard grows up to ten feet long and can weigh in the hundreds of pounds.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2013
• Some large monitor lizards actually have bigger teeth than T. rex compared to their skull size, and can still fit them under a set of scaly lips, Cullen said.
  — Maddie Burakoff, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Customers at a 7-Eleven in Thailand were in for a surprise when a giant Asian monitor lizard scurried into the convenience store.
  — Amy Wray, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
• The lizard, most likely a monitor lizard, is seen in the 40-second video trying to literally knock at the home's door and scratch at it by finding a way to get into the house while standing on a windowsill.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
• Up the road, a monitor lizard, a creature more crocodile than newt, lumbered across the tarmac, with little traffic to impede its crossing.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021
• And your friends could soon find a perfect duplicate of that cute-as-a-button ferret or that feisty Sahara monitor lizard waiting under the Christmas tree.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• However, Godzilla’s bite is by no means weak, and all of his teeth are flesh-piercing, similar to crocodile and monitor lizard teeth.
  — Kiersten Formoso, The Conversation, 29 Mar. 2021
• Similarly, the earless monitor lizard, found only in Borneo, was first described in 2012 in a paper in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.
  — National Geographic, 30 Apr. 2019
• But apart from jawless lampreys, the extinct monitor lizard is the only vertebrate known to have two additional eyes.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2018
• Even before the animal had been discovered, the field team had suspected that a fruit-eating monitor lizard was prowling the forests, based on scratch marks all over the local fruiting Pandanus trees.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2010
• The team also found the remains of Philippine brown deer, freshwater turtles and monitor lizards during the excavation.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2018
• The extinct Saniwa ensidens, a monitor lizard, lived around 34 million years ago.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• Traveling by water is risky: Crocodiles, pythons, and monitor lizards often prey on the swimming primates.
  — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2016
• This video shows a monitor lizard skull fossil fragment with both the parietal and pineal foramina visible (highlighted in yellow).
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• During a stroll along the boardwalk, visitors can spot a plethora of birds ranging from Sunda teals to Javan bulbuls to coppersmith barbets, while massive monitor lizards stroll along the path.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Most monitor lizards just have these vermiform (worm-shaped) osteoderms, but this guy has four very distinct morphologies, which is very unusual across lizards.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 Sep. 2019
• More than half the ball pythons, emperor scorpions, and savanna monitor lizards were destined for the U.S., which is the largest consumer of live wildlife globally and imports millions of animals a year, mostly for the pet trade.
  — Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2019
• Like most monitor lizards, Komodo dragons are carnivores and hunters by nature.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2023
• The aquarium features a wide variety of marine life, from water-dwellers like sharks, jellyfish and dolphins to ocean-adjacent species like puffins, turtles and monitor lizards.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• There were other animal remains as well, including deer, a turtle, a monitor lizard and a stegodon, an elephant relative with a weird sideways trunk.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
• Last Tuesday, the animal stars included an African porcupine, a caracal, a smallish African cat with prominent tufted ears, a monitor lizard and a cheetah.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2019
• At top are three extant species: the gharial, which eats fish; the American crocodile, which eats harder invertebrates like snails and crustaceans; and Grey’s monitor lizard, which is an omnivore.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 28 Oct. 2020
• Exactly how those dinos have multiplied and spread across the planet in four years remains a hazy detail, though the surviving velociraptor known as Blue has reproduced without a mate thanks to her strand of monitor lizard DNA.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022
• Their modern-day relatives include the monitor lizard and Komodo dragon.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• Researchers are slowly but surely uncovering new details about the mosasaur, which are related to the modern-day Komodo dragons and other monitor lizards.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2019
• Some of the animal species that were imported, including a flying fox and monitor lizard, require a permit to import because of regulations on the trade of threatened and endangered animals.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
• Animals found on Ubirr's walls include barramundi (Asian sea bass), catfish, mullet, goannas (Australian monitor lizard), long-necked turtles, pig-nosed turtles, rock ringtail possums and wallabies.
  — Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024