How to Use rhinoceros in a Sentence

rhinoceros

noun

• A rhinoceros broke free and charged a group of young girls, killing one.
  — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• And all of a sudden, everyone’s a rhinoceros at the end of the play.
  — Emil Wilbekin Shikeith Ian Bradley, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Related to horses and rhinoceroses, the Malayan tapir can weigh as much as 800 pounds.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• The rhinoceros calf will stay with its mother for two to four years.
  — Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
• For the first time, a rhinoceros is living at the Woodland Park Zoo.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• The rhinoceros calf, born on Christmas Eve, will be named through a Sweet 16 bracket, the zoo said.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Between the zoo's six elephants, five rhinoceroses and three bantengs, the zoo collects more than 2,000 pounds of dung per day.
  — Carli Teproff, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
• The Sumatra rhino is the smallest of the rhinoceros species and the only rhino with two horns.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2019
• The Hercules beetles are a species of rhinoceros beetle, which are reared as pets in parts of Asia.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 13 June 2017
• The West African black rhino was one of four subspecies of rhinoceros.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022
• The dig revealed the presence of reindeer, cave bears, woolly rhinoceroses and horses.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• With the new arrival, the number of rhinoceroses at the zoo rose to five, including male Spike and females Mambo and Gloria.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
• The new arrival brings the number of rhinoceroses at the zoo to five, including male Spike and females Mambo and Gloria.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2024
• Xola and mama Zenzele have been indoors since her Feb. 11 birth, the first live birth of a rhinoceros at the zoo.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
• The dewback was a puppet made from the body of a stuffed rhinoceros, fitted with a reptilian head and tail.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
• The team aims to replicate this success with rhinoceros stem cells.
  — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
• The rhinoceros hornbill of Southeast Asia has a casque, or helmet, on its bill.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
• One scene in the ride shows several people who are holding on to a tree in order to escape the horn of a rhinoceros.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
• First, researchers in South Africa had to build a large database of genetic samples drawn from African rhinoceroses.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• The first scene in the movie shows a rhinoceros being shot with a tranquilizer gun and then having its horn sheared off.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
• The 30-point test includes drawings of a lion and a rhinoceros, which patients must name.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2018
• The Sumatran rhinoceros has become extinct in Malaysia, after the last of the species in the country succumbed to cancer.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
• Curtin, a wildlife artist, paints pink elephants, blue rhinoceroses, standing cows and pigs adorned with jewelry and lipstick.
  — Faith E. Pinho, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• Downriver is a national park that is home to wild elephants, tigers and rhinoceroses.
  — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
• So if modern humans didn’t cut up the rhinoceros, who did?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
• Unfortunately, that egg, a large, hairy oval, is in a hole that's also the home of a large, hairy cross between a bull and a rhinoceros.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
• There are only five species of rhinoceros left in the world, and the Providence Zoo is out to help save them, according to their website.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• There seemed to be meaning behind a small rhinoceros statue, a framed picture of praying hands and a bowl of Brazil nuts.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2020
• One critic saw him as a rhinoceros that could almost tap-dance.
  — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• The second phase of Elephant Trek will open in spring 2025 and will include habitats for siamangs, babirusa, rhinoceros hornbills and small-clawed otters.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024