How to Use newt in a Sentence

newt

noun

• The Pacific newt is populous in this part of the state, but high roadkill rates abound in the North and South Bay.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2022
• There was no bubbling cauldron or eye of newt or toe of frog involved.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• The little brown newt slithered its way across the muddy trail, making a morning trek back from the shallows of the lake.
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2022
• There is a dwarf who wears a gold ring as a belt; a newt who may or may not be named Reddy; a girl in tap shoes who bakes a chicken.
  — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• Just don’t accidentally trade a gray newt for a Babe Ruth.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
• The newt grinned, retracting his poisonous spines into his skin.
  — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020
• Adam Dublinske, a 20-year-old from Milford, Iowa, and other Marines joined the biologists’ efforts to watch for newts.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
• In response, the Iberian ribbed newt arched his back and tucked his head into his chest—sharp, spiny ribs coated in poison burst through his skin.
  — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020
• Not all witches deal in cemetery dirt and eyes of newt — this limited-edition purse spray is for the Glindas, Sabrinas, and Hermiones out there.
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 6 Oct. 2017
• The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below: Eye of newt, toe of frog, voice of Bette.
  — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2019
• Wrapped around the silly storytelling is a score that may not include a signature tune but happily does not stem the momentum of a show that is already a few eye of newt too long.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
• The next road-crosser that night was a juvenile eastern newt, the length of a finger and luminously orange under headlamps.
  — Brandon Keim, New York Times, 18 May 2020
• 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
• The menu is refreshingly basic—no crazy ingredients or tinctures, no eye of newt.
  — Andrea Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• A rainbow snake and Klingon newt are among the whimsical new species discovered in the Greater Mekong region, scientists announced today.
  — National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2016
• The Chinese fire belly newt (Cynops orientalis) lives up to its name with a vivid pattern of biofluorescence on its underside.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2020
• Careful observers on creek-side trails may see the orange-bellied California newt, a squishy member of the salamander family.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• Unlike the long, narrowing tails of land-living dinosaurs, Spinosaurus’ rearmost appendage seemed built to whip back and forth like that of a crocodile or a newt—a theory that seemed borne out when the researchers modeled its motion in a water tank.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020
• People have been obsessed with amphibians for hundreds of years, from the witches in Macbeth brewing up eye of newt (spoiler: not actually newt eyeballs), to ancient Egyptians worshipping frogs.
  — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 22 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024