How to Use duckbill in a Sentence

duckbill

noun

• Chin agrees that the duckbills may not have hunted the animals.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
• Unlike a platypus, a short-beaked echidna doesn't have a duckbill or swim in streams.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2016
• Life-size apples hung on hats of red felt; daisies were wrapped around plaid duckbills, and a pixie cap of straw was molded into fruit shapes.
  — Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018
• Shaped like a thick duckbill, this perforated rubber clog has long been a closet staple for nurses and cooks.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2021
• And then there were the Ornithischia, which had a more bird-like kind of hip, and comprised armored dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs, duckbill dinosaurs and their relatives.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 8 Dec. 2017
• Some 75 million years ago, a duckbill did its business and, unwittingly, its bit for science.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
• Although these sculptural lamps are sold at retailers throughout the country today, the duckbill light originated in France decades ago.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2020
• The Carter County Museum about 70 miles away was the first facility in Montana to display dinosaurs and exhibits a nearly complete duckbill dinosaur and a full triceratops skull.
  — Seaborn Larson, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2017
• The distinguishing duckbill shape is credited to Serge Mouille, a Parisian designer who worked as a silversmith before pivoting to lighting design.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2020
• Fossils of duckbill dinosaurs are so common in North America that paleontologists often just ignore them.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2020

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