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, which was up to 70 years old, had lived at the farm for six years.
    Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 31 July 2019
  • 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
  • The crocodile was about 20 feet away by the time everyone got out of the creek.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Of all the species in the world, the largest—and most dangerous—is the saltwater crocodile.
    Daniel Jameson, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • The crocodile was an adult about 7-feet, 6-inches in length.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Scott even turns a wild crocodile into a house pet with a chain leash.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2022
  • There were green soldiers and there were glass beads and there were bears and there was at least one crocodile.
    Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • In fact, a crocodile’s head scales even differ significantly from the scales on the rest of its body.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
  • In October, she was spotted with a crocodile Hermès Birkin bag.
    Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024

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