How to Use caiman in a Sentence

caiman

noun

• All of the hides were from caiman and pythons bred in captivity.
  — Joshua Goodman, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2024
• Or the jaguar catching the crocodile (caiman) in the Pantanal.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2019
• Most of the caimans sold in stores were spectacled caimans — a species so named for the glasses-like ridge that runs along their snouts.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Bite marks show that large caimans might have tried their luck on this armored giant.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• The Guatemalan guerrilla was created at the beginning of the 1960s, in the mountains, by a ghost and a caiman.
  — Eduardo Halfon, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2020
• Or skim around the waterways and look out for birds, turtles, caimans and other wildlife.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• The zoo did not say in the post if the reptile was an alligator, crocodile, or caiman.
  — David Aaro, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2022
• And caimans are identifiable by a bridge of bone between their eyes.
  — Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
• Now at Casa Bambú, amid the banana trees and birds-of-paradise, the only threats were the strong currents at the beach and the three caimans said to live in the river behind the hotel.
  — Anika Fajardo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Their diet consists of birds, fish, small mammals, rodents and even caiman.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• The analysis revealed that two of the extinct species were, like the caiman, carnivorous.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• Jaguars and caimans, for example, love snacking on capybaras.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• El Jardín Botánico is a sprawling, forested park patrolled by monkeys and caimans.
  — Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Bait your hook with a bloody ox heart (no need to bring your own; the guide will provide one) and toss any unwanted catch to one of the caimans waiting patiently, usually, on the banks.
  — Deborah Dunn, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2016
• Videos show otters having it out with an alligator, a caiman, even a coyote.
  — Robyn Murrell, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
• Despite the hazards, the Pororoca is popular with surfers, who don’t mind sharing a wave with a caiman or a piranha.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
• Sir Francis Drake gave the Caymans their present name in 1586 when dangerous caiman crocodilians with an appetite for British sailors freely roamed these isles in large numbers.
  — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• The horns would also have been useful defense against predators like 40-foot crocodile-like caimans that were longer than a standard telephone pole is tall.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
• In the dry season, wildlife enthusiasts flock to see jaguars lounging on riverbanks, as well as macaws, giant river otters and caiman.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• The crocs can be found only in the Zapata Swamp in a habitat deemed the smallest for any living croc species, which include alligators, crocs and caimans.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 23 June 2017
• Andueza was heading out for a slog through a swamp where pit vipers patrol the undergrowth and carnivorous caimans, hidden in dark pools, eye passersby.
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• When the sun goes down, we were told, the Brazilian wandering spiders, bullet ants, poison dart frogs, snakes, giant centipedes, jaguars, anacondas and black caimans come out.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• The waters surrounding the lodge are densely occupied by black caimans who float about peacefully and sometimes enjoy a rest underneath the floorboards of the lodge.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2024
• That's the word from Georgie, a young, approximately 1-foot-long dwarf caiman that escaped from an outdoor enclosure in Clinton Township at least five days ago.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2020
• The same goes for crocodiles, caimans, any wild cat species like bobcats and lynxes, any wolves or wolf/dog hybrids, or native wild animals like raccoons, skunks and foxes.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
• The crystal structures in sea turtle and caiman tears were the most distinctive, likely a product of adapting to their aquatic environments.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
• One encounter with a dangerous caiman (a South American cousin of a crocodile) that lives in the Amazon is one of the most startling survival battles ever caught on camera.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
• In fact, this ancient caiman had a bite force of seven tons, more than four times the strongest bite ever measured in the animal kingdom, study author Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi said in an email.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Aug. 2020
• Savvy businesspeople soon brought live caimans stateside.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The area is home to thousands of endangered or unusual species, including jaguars, capybaras, black caimans, giant otters and hyacinth macaws.
  — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 24 Mar 2025