How to Use pterodactyl in a Sentence

pterodactyl

noun

• The next year the Ducks traded for Pronger, the pterodactyl with the T-rex temperament.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 6 June 2017
• Paragon also wrote many of the show’s episodes and voiced Pterri, the talking pterodactyl.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
• That created space for him at the 3-point line, where this lean pterodactyl of a player is deadly.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2016
• But Durant is a 7-foot pterodactyl, who has only gained strength and defensive guile during his first decade in the league.
  — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 4 June 2017
• The bird was gazing at her with its single eye on the side of its flat head—a pterodactyl’s cold indifferent Mesozoic eye.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• Jurassic Park’ Tale of the tape: Rodan is the pterodactyl-like firebird who emerges from a volcano and doles out some sick burns for his opponents.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 May 2019
• Or when Yaba Daba Doo’s pterodactyl wings blew off before leaving the barge.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2019
• But the hotel shut its doors for good a few years ago, a hulking edifice that some liken to a rearing pterodactyl but that others just call a fire trap.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
• There is now, as well, a lottery pick point guard on the team — the intriguing Frank Ntilikina, a 6-5 French teenager with a pterodactyl’s wingspan.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 28 June 2017
• This time, the dinosaurs are angrier, more destructive (a pterodactyl attacks a plane!), and bigger.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
• His antic ads for the Little Caesars pizza chain included one in which a pizza box turns into a pterodactyl.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• A half-shark, half-octopus battles a half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• In 2002 researchers discovered in the Transylvania region of Romania what may have been the world’s largest pterodactyl.
  — Natalie Angier, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• Who could forget Tommy Heinsohn throwing punches with a pterodactyl?
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• But Durant’s a 7-foot pterodactyl who jumps higher, reaches further, slides quicker, disrupts more and rebounds better.
  — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 5 June 2017
• Fur and skin, unless in an exaggerated circumstance (like flying on the back of a pterodactyl), fail to show movement and tangible texture.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
• Or just hang out at the infinity pool and watch the soaring pterodactyl-like frigate birds, or look for geckos while performing mojito quality checks on the latest shipment of mint.
  — By Brian Melton, star-telegram, 6 Sep. 2017
• Wembanyama reportedly stands 7 feet 5 in shoes, with a pterodactyl-like wingspan of 8 feet, and will immediately become the tallest player in the NBA next season.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• Jay Pharoah offered a reasonable facsimile of J.J. Evans, from his strut to his pterodactyl-like arm positioning.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
• Somewhere in the Late Cretaceous period, a pterodactyl is probably cowering in shame.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Shadow Fold, also known as the Unsea, is a region of nearly impenetrable darkness that contains pterodactyl-like monsters that eat human flesh called colcra.
  — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 29 Apr. 2021
• But those intrepid 19th-century explorers did discover other super-sized creatures: snakes and fish that could swallow a full-sized man, the world's biggest ants and spiders, massive otters and anteaters, and an eagle with talons like a pterodactyl.
  — Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• An unrealized Jim Henson film in which the titular character, a fluffy pterodactyl, vanquishes a gremlin based on Lee Atwater.
  — David Kamp, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
• Image Blessed with a spectacular talent, a 7-foot-3 hybrid of a shooting guard and a pterodactyl defender, most teams would craft a team and organizational philosophy around him.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 4 May 2018

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024