How to Use crocodile in a Sentence

crocodile

noun
  • 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
  • In one video, he was seen feeding a live python to a crocodile.
    Lawrence Yee, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • On the bright side, at least she did not get eaten by a crocodile!
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Here a Nile crocodile drags a zebra to certain death in the depths.
    Ralph P. Stuart, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • The pharaohs worshiped crocodiles and used the Nile to transport the giant granite blocks for the Great Pyramid of Giza.
    Declan Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2020
  • But their other movie, the one about a crocodile, comes out Friday.
    oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This long, flat tail seems built for pushing through the water— like a crocodile.
    National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The series depicts the friendship between a girl and a crocodile, who asks to be her pet.
    Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
  • In our opinion, this part of the body resembles the lower half of a lizard or crocodile.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Jude Law's going to have to watch out for that tick-tocking crocodile!
    Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2020
  • The new silver and crocodile sneaker was teased on Instagram with an up-close look at the details of the shoe.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Shawn Mendes plays the voice of the urbane crocodile, who lives with a family in a New York City brownstone.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
  • And new material stories shined through, like calfskin with color dabbed on by hand, which created the effect of crocodile scales seen through sunlit water.
    WWD, 23 Sep. 2024
  • His videos often consisted of him handling venomous snakes, showing off crocodiles and taking care of the family’s giraffe.
    Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024

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