How to Use salamander in a Sentence

salamander

noun

• The salamanders were taken from the wild as eggs and brought to the Nashville Zoo to hatch and grow.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
• Why not give a salamander like Archie the axolotl a try.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
• The lesser siren is a two-legged salamander, that looks like an eel.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2018
• Ferns, lichen and moss grow in them, and salamanders, spotted owls and bats reside in the trees.
  — Jim Robbins Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Learning more about them could help to save the salamanders, the researchers said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• The rocks along the paths bear traces of Pleistocene glaciers; salamanders inhabit the streambeds; and hawks soar above the leaf canopy.
  — Eve M. Kahn, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• So the five animals were the crab, the salamander, a bat, a shark, and a jellyfish.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• But is this the end for the wild Chinese giant salamander?
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• For the past 150 years, the nuns in the convent had been sustainably raising the rare salamanders.
  — National Geographic, 19 June 2018
• At high risk is the Chinese giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians in the world.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
• In the wild, the snakes will feed on earthworms, insects, frogs, salamanders, and toads and are harmless to humans.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• The term gets its name from two things, Elbridge Gerry and salamanders.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
• The group learned about tree frogs, mole salamanders, African bullfrogs, and more during the session.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 23 Apr. 2018
• The cartoon depicts one of the bizarrely shaped districts in the contorted form of a fork-tongued salamander.
  — Brian Klaas, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2017
• But the dam had eroded, and salamanders stopped breeding there.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• Deer, frog, salamander and bat species are just some of the wildlife reliant on Kentucky's wetlands.
  — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2023
• In salamander embryos, Spemann and Mangold found a unique cluster of cells at one end of the streak.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 23 May 2018
• Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the myth of the fire-proof salamander blazed, with some believing it was born in fire, like the Phoenix.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Starnes says they're sometimes confused with a batch of salamander eggs or rocks.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2017
• In Roman folklore, salamanders are fabled to be able to walk through fire and come out alive.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
• That lightning rod is in the shape of a salamander, an animal once thought able to survive fire.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
• At first glance, most salamanders don’t stand out: Their mottled, earth-toned skin helps them blend into the background of forests and streams around the world.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 28 Feb. 2020
• This tiny salamander is one of the newest (and cutest) additions.
  — Saleah Blancaflor, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Among animals, lungfish and a group of aquatic salamanders have some of the largest genomes.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
• Ridge said some birds, salamanders, weasels, snakes, toads, pigs and raccoons will feed on the worms, but don’t make much difference.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2024
• Like all vertebrates, salamanders have a structure called a pallium that sits near the front of the brain.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• Although the drive lasted only about three hours, the stress made some of the salamanders metamorphose.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2018
• Lucky visitors might catch a glimpse of the few cave dwellers including bats and salamanders.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• In addition to its common name, the salamanders are sometimes called snot otters.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
• Biologists in local offices contributed to decisions about things like how many deer could be hunted each year, or how to protect rare salamanders.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024