How to Use skink in a Sentence

skink

noun

• But not all of the skinks with green innards are green on the outside.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
• In northern parts of Australia, the skinks give birth to live young.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
• The skinks kept their tongues concealed for as long as possible.
  — Shane Black, National Geographic, 8 June 2018
• That’s the Western skink, which has dark brown and light beige stripes, one edged in black, on a body that wields that astonishing tail.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2021
• If your colleagues or clients grow irate over unanswered emails, tell them to submit a complaint to Slinky, the blue-tongued skink.
  — Andrea Sachs, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• The researchers found the rear of the skink's tongue was nearly twice as brightly blue and ultraviolet as the tip.
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2018
• One of my most irrational fears, besides skinks and jumping off of things, is lash curlers.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 10 July 2018
• The average skink comes in at around 4 inches long, weighing less than 0.07 ounces.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 15 June 2023
• Arnhem Land Gorges skink is a member of the genus Bellatorias, like this lizard.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
• In one case, a female skink was basking with her family when a snake appeared near their crevice.
  — Hannah Thomasy, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• Native species,like the skinks and fence lizard that are from here, can be threatened by introductions of nonnatives.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• The flooding killed a blue-tongued skink lizard, one of the many animals that call the science and technology museum home.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2021
• These animals, such as the Western three-toed skink or Transvaal grass lizard, still have teeny arms or legs, but those are mostly useless.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
• And though our crew had logged dozens of interesting finds, including an eastern hognose snake and a five-lined skink, the target species had yet to be seen.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
• Along with the Burmese Python, Andersen brought an armadillo, a chinchilla, a leopard tortoise and an Australian blue-tongued skink.
  — Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• The animals included rattlesnakes, boas, a blue-tongued skink and a Gila monster.
  — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 13 May 2017
• The green blood of the skinks illustrates the perils of trying to justify the variety of blood pigments in nature as purely adaptive.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
• These hunts have helped to save local populations of two threatened species—the greater bilby, a small, large-eared native marsupial, and the great desert skink.
  — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
• Junior Zoe Miller was in the education center holding Marvin, a blue-tongued skink, on her forearm.
  — Hannah Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• The Persian striped skink (Eumeces persicus), discovered in 2017 in Iran, was on sale within three months.
  — Pavel Toropov, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
• But shape isn't everything, as a team of researchers recently discovered while watching hundreds of skink lizards court and spark .
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2011
• In addition to the traditional hamsters and fish, teachers now are caring for things like chinchillas, rats, skinks, chicks, hissing cockroaches and, of course, snakes.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2020
• But five species of skink lizards native to New Guinea and the Soloman Islands have brilliant bright green liquid pumping through their circulatory system.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• Several Maryland skinks have blue iridescent tails when young.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 3 July 2019
• Perrywinkle Perrywinkle, who turns 20 in December, is an apt name for this blue-tongue skink.
  — cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• In Australia, yellow-bellied three-toed skinks that live in higher, colder regions bear live young, while those in warmer lowlands lay eggs, which are harder to keep warm under cold conditions.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2016
• In Australia, yellow-bellied three-toed skinks that live in higher, colder regions bear live young, while those in warmer lowlands lay eggs, which are harder to keep warm under cold conditions.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2016
• Eighteen reptiles, including other boas, a second skink and pythons, survived.
  — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 13 May 2017
• See a small fiddler crab scuttling along a log; a skink's dark and half-closed eye; a tiny green buffalo treehopper clinging, upside-down, to a leaf; a Brazilian verbena flower so small that dozens could fit on a quarter.
  — Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• And a blue-tongued skink that was in such bad shape that its eyes had sunk in has gotten better after a veterinarian scraped away the debris and scales that had grown over its eyes and probably had prevented it from seeing, according to Peet.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022

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