How to Use crocodile in a Sentence

crocodile

noun
  • This long, flat tail seems built for pushing through the water— like a crocodile.
    National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Videos showed a digger removing the bodies of the crocodiles.
    Kocha Olarn, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The taxidermied head of a Gharial, or small crocodile, pokes out from the wall.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Giving the whole space a certain element of je ne sais quoi is the crocodile print tile that adds subtle flair to the backsplash.
    Danielle Harling, House Beautiful, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The film was shot on location at an actual crocodile park two hours from Jakarta.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • This example gets a platinum case and silver dial fitted to a custom bright crocodile strap.
    Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Carl skydiving, climbing mountains, on a safari, wrestling a crocodile.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Rose was there to document sharks and promote their conservation and ended up photographing the crocodile from inches away.
    Julia Thompson, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
  • In a video, Cardi showed off her latest additions to her collections: three crocodile Birkins in mustard yellow, crimson, and gray.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Another businessman owned a crocodile farm and sold his skins to boutique Italian handbag and shoe manufacturers.
    Craig Richardson, National Review, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The ridges on the crocodile's back and the angle of its tail are also the same.
    Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • One day, the rangers hoped to raise crocodiles all the way to slaughter.
    Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The crocodile has one eye open and one eye closed, just like the one in the Facebook post.
    Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Taweret has the head of a hippo, and the body parts of a feline and crocodile.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 4 May 2022
  • On the bright side, at least she did not get eaten by a crocodile!
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The tail of any crocodile, White mentioned, is the meatiest part.
    Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 6 June 2022
  • Scott even turns a wild crocodile into a house pet with a chain leash.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, my kids have to do a lot with the decision of me going out there to sing and dance with a crocodile.
    Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The crocodile was made of cloth, always stared in the same direction, and had a wide-open mouth with sharp teeth.
    David Treuer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Donkey Kong’s son scales the vines, dodges some strange crocodile monsters, and frees Daddy from the grip of the evil plumber.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The 10-foot-long animal had a jaw like a crocodile's and lived both in water and on land.
    Tess Joosse, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • If the crocodile is killed to save Ivan, is that a waste of valuable property?
    Bethanne Patrick, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Fossils of crocodile teeth and turtle shells found in the same quarry seemed to bolster the idea.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Dozens of Siamese crocodile eggs hatched in the wild, suggesting their numbers are on the rise.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 18 July 2024
  • But their other movie, the one about a crocodile, comes out Friday.
    oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The series depicts the friendship between a girl and a crocodile, who asks to be her pet.
    Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The spinosaurid, a two-legged dinosaur with the face of a crocodile, was larger than a double-decker bus.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 June 2022
  • The zoo did not say in the post if the reptile was an alligator, crocodile, or caiman.
    David Aaro, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • To Kipling’s drawing for his kids of a crocodile pulling an elephant’s nose from the Limpopo River.
    Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The photo of the crocodile was taken in 2019 during a flood in Townsville, Australia.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021

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