How to Use lizard in a Sentence
lizard
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One of the workers pulls the lizard out of the drain by its tail, a video shows.
— Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024 -
The lizard had shed its skin and left the tracker behind.
— al, 4 Mar. 2021 -
The handlers dragged the lizard out of the store and lured it towards a nearby brush.
— NBC News, 8 Apr. 2021 -
The lizard runs from the bird until reaching a body of water.
— Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022 -
The strong scent of wild thyme and sage hung in the air, and reddish brown lizards darted among crevices in the walls.
— Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023 -
Both lizards are doing their best to change minds and hearts.
— Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Insects use this method, but it’s thought that the lizards would be too big.
— New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2024 -
Your daughters left you and your wife a zoo of pets from birds, lizards, cats and dogs.
— Alex Distefano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024 -
Did dinosaur blood run cold, like a lizard, or warm, like a bird?
— Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022 -
For a dinosaur whose name sounds a lot like a lizard, the Iguanodon sure got around.
— René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2021 -
The lizard brain is always running in the background, ready for fight or flight.
— Elio Morillo, Popular Science, 7 June 2023 -
The lizards were found on humid nights perched about 15 feet off the ground on leaves above the entrance of a rock cave.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024 -
There are hundreds of legless lizard species found around the world.
— Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020 -
Faraday is an alien in a new land, a lizard in a human skin suit.
— Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022 -
When an unsuspecting lizard takes the bait, the death adder strikes.
— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 -
As the evening sun trickled through the forest in Malaysia, an elusive lizard searched for a bed.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024 -
So, she will not be retired like an old, crepe-y lizard.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022 -
But just how serious the risk is to the lizards remains a mystery.
— Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023 -
The interaction doesn’t end there, as the lizards also feast on the plant’s seeds.
— Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023 -
During the visit, researchers found a 13-inch-long lizard, the study said.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024 -
The chickens, lizard and tortoise, though, would have to stay with a friend in San Bernardino.
— Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024 -
That’s why a plastic lizard is a great choice in spring, when bass are spawning.
— Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 17 Nov. 2020 -
Isabel Isabel is the first to say her son (and his lizard) were poisoned.
— Town & Country, 13 July 2023 -
The team plans to return to the creek bed site in the fall to finish excavating the rest of the lizard, per the Morning News.
— Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Aug. 2022 -
Farewell to my lizard friends on the stairwell, the mosquitos that swarm by the thousands and the monsoons that seem to spring from the sky.
— Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2020 -
Her boyfriend went back for her, sometimes to feed the family’s lizard or to retrieve the mail.
— Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2024 -
So, the researchers stacked prepatterned heater strips under the fake lizard’s skin.
— Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2021 -
Kirk boulder-wrestled a guy in a lizard suit and weird toga.
— Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022 -
This is a Joker whose seen things, who has lived a hundred lives, who hobbles around like a dang-ass freak and croaks out a weird lizard laugh between smacks of his weird lizard lips.
— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Five of the bags have been executed in lizard skin and another ten in Joseph Duclos heritage leather.
— Lily Templeton, WWD, 23 Sep. 2024
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