How to Use sauropod in a Sentence

sauropod

noun

• Of all the sauropods, or long-necked dinosaurs, ____________ were the largest in size.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2017
• Some weighed in at a mere six tons, making them the smallest of the sauropods.
  — Shaena Montanari, National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2017
• Even toes can be discerned in a few of the sauropod prints.
  — Kathleen McLaughlin, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
• And while the theropods’ eggs tended to be bright blue and green, the sauropods’ tended to be brown, beige and white.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• Asia’s largest sauropod dinosaur and one of the biggest sauropods in the world.
  — Ginny Mohler, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• Its huge arm swung back and forth, as stately as the neck of a sauropod.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• Patagotitan is one of a group of giant sauropods, or plant eaters.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• At the time they were thought to be from a variety of dinosaurs, like stegosaurs and sauropods.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2018
• The team suggests this means sauropods could have been cold-blooded.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
• In the mid-Jurassic, sauropods necks grew longer and the first birds were figuring out flight.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Some sauropods, such as Patagotitan, stretched for 37 meters and weighed in at 57 tons.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
• Its brain was about the size of a walnut, which is more or less average for sauropods, Sereno says.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• To reach their record sizes, sauropods underwent record growth.
  — Michael D. D'emic, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• But sauropods — long-necked lumbering creatures like Brontosaurus and the Diplodocus — kept to warmer climes.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2024
• There were meat eaters like the fearsome Tyrannosaurus, and there were giants like sauropods that ate only plants.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• But these facts only show us what allowed sauropods to become big.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• These facts only show us what allowed sauropods to become big.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• Fossils of the sauropod were found in South Africa, near the country's border with Lesotho on what was then the super continent Panagea, in the 1980s.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• One of those tracks is the largest dinosaur print ever recorded: a 5-foot-9-inch print from a sauropod, or long-necked dinosaur.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2017
• Fueled by plants The rapid growth rates of sauropods was partly due to their body temperatures.
  — Kristi Curry Rogers, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
• Neosauropods are a subgroup of sauropods—all members of these groups had traits like thick, column-like legs, lengthy necks, small heads, and grew to massive sizes.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2018
• Left: Researchers at a camp near the Beardmore Glacier, where fossils from meat-eating theropods and plant-eating sauropods were found.
  — Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
• This particular sauropod, the scientists believe, stood 40 feet high and may have been 80 feet long from the tip of its tail to the tip of its nose.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2022
• The creature, called Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, belonged to a group called sauropods.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• At one end of the slab, there is a single footprint of a juvenile sauropod, a long-necked plant-eating dinosaur.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• The dinosaur tracks belong to theropods, sauropods, and iguanodontians, and are spread across three rock outcroppings in the Brazilian state of Paraíba.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
• As for the elephant, its gait was actually the opposite of a sauropod.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
• All sauropods have an efficient, bird-like breathing system that involved air sacks in their bones.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• The footprints, found in a lagoon in Brother's Point, are believed to have been made by two dinosaurs -- a hefty long-necked sauropod and a sharp-toothed theropod, a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  — Zahid Mahmood, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
• The first set was decidedly theropod prints, according to the park's website, but later, more prints would be found, even that of sauropods.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024