How to Use tree frog in a Sentence

tree frog

noun

• The species in question is called Cope's gray tree frog.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2013
• This is ideal habitat for tree frogs, and some of the species hiding in the foliage are found nowhere else in the world.
  — Jonathan Kolby, National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2016
• Most of them were tree frogs, which accounted for seven of the nine frogs found alive.
  — Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• The red-eyed tree frog, as its name implies, has some pretty striking orbs.
  — Ernie Mastroianni, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2017
• More in the mood for a tree frog, a hermit crab and a deadly battle of leopard vs. steenbok?
  — CNN, 3 Dec. 2022
• Cuban tree frogs have bulging eyes and large toe pads and can range in color from almost white to a dark brownish green.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2024
• For instance, birds and tree frogs must adjust their twitters and chirps just to be heard above the din of rush hour traffic.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
• While the genital-less wasps tried to bite their tree frog assailants, all 17 were devoured.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• Spring peepers are a type of tree frog, are about an inch in length, and are known for their distinctive croaking, which helps the frogs to find a mate.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024
• Lucky hikers might even spot a Pacific tree frog, especially near the small pond at the start of the trail.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
• The group learned about tree frogs, mole salamanders, African bullfrogs, and more during the session.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 23 Apr. 2018
• There is also a species of tree frog, a dung beetle and a genus of dinosaurs named after the character.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 13 June 2024
• But while most tree frogs are on the prowl for night-flying insects, one species is after the sugary nectar in the flowers.
  — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 6 May 2023
• On rainy nights on the verdant coastal plains outside Rio de Janeiro, groups of tree frogs sometimes gather around the pearly white flowers of the milk fruit tree.
  — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 6 May 2023
• For all those years the Pacific tree frog has given us their great evening and morning chorus.
  — oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
• Even the tadpoles of Cuban tree frogs compete with the tadpoles of native frogs, making the species an even stronger invasive threat.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
• Spring peepers, wood frogs, gray tree frogs, and other amphibians head to these vernal pools and call out for mates.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018
• The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• Wood frogs, spring peepers and grey tree frogs can be heard in many parks, as well, though the noisy anurans grow quiet as humans approach.
  — cleveland, 27 Mar. 2020
• In the mountainous forests of New Guinea, scientists have described a new kind of tree frog whose males sport a single, fleshy spike on their nose.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 7 June 2019
• In future research, Lee and Bee hope to explore whether these findings hold for other species besides the green tree frog.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
• And another one just joined the ranks: the polka-dot tree frog, Hypsiboas punctatus.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
• An example was done on tree frogs exposed to traffic noise for a period of days.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2018
• Rolls-Royce said that the colors were inspired by nature, including a tree frog and the flower from an evergreen tree.
  — Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 24 Nov. 2020
• Harry was not scheduled to visit the market, and was instead unveiling a plaque at a forest site home to species such as the Fiji tree frog.
  — Kirsty Wigglesworth, The Seattle Times, 24 Oct. 2018
• As the largest tree frog to step its sticky toes on the trees and shrubs of North America, these 2-to-6-inch frogs consume a wide variety of foods, including native tree frogs.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
• In the 1970s, researchers were perplexed by the rapid, unexplained deaths of tree frogs and other amphibians in the cloud forests of Central America.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018
• Just a couple of inches long, this tiny tree frog gets its name for the translucent skin that showcases its internal organs.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• To test whether these males’ pseudostingers might deter attackers, the researchers enclosed male mason wasps with one of their predators, a tree frog.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 22 Dec. 2022
• The researchers compiled the tree frog's genome and compared it with a closely related frog incapable of gliding.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 14 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024