How to Use stegosaurus in a Sentence

stegosaurus

noun
  • The oven that cooks the tortillas is about the size of a teenage stegosaurus.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2021
  • One landmark along the way is what some hikers have dubbed the stegosaurus.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Here, a line of rocks, each the size of a big-man recliner, looks like the back of a stegosaurus dinosaur.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Expect to see Blue the Raptor, a stegosaurus, triceratops and a T-rex.
    Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Nestled among the wilderness and trees of Bastrop, a stegosaurus chomps on a branch.
    Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The tent pictures t-rex, stegosaurus, and triceratops along with pterodactyls on the rooftop.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The father saw the body through a crack in the stegosaurus' hollow leg and alerted the authorities.
    Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 May 2021
  • The park will bring a new stegosaurus fossil cast to its museum around the same time, the Daily Record reported.
    Derek Hawkins, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • British scientists have discoverd a new species of stegosaurus that's believed to be the oldest of its kind ever found.
    Fox News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The team is free to accompany field guides and visit the neighboring nunataks, the mountain ridges that emerge from the ice like bony plates on a stegosaurus' back.
    Serena Coady, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Another has a line of smooth, hard, upward-reaching sails along its center, arranged like the plates of a stegosaurus.
    New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • In 2014, the institution put Sophie the Stegosaurus on display, the most complete stegosaurus fossil anywhere in the world.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
  • And, for a while, many believed that the bipedal form of these dinosaurs was lost in favor of the much larger and lumbering four-footed tanks like the stegosaurus and ankylosaurs.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The back end, including its tail weapon, seemed similar to a stegosaurus, so the researchers named it stegouros elengassen.
    Fox News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • First a Tyrannosaurus rex appeared on the table, followed by a velociraptor and a stegosaurus.
    Kate Elizabeth Queram, Howard County Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • About 85 million years after this stegosaurus fossilized, the last dinosaurs went extinct.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Have up-close encounters with a life-like stegosaurus, velociraptor and a T-Rex in a walk-through exhibit.
    Oc Disney Staff, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
  • There were stegosauruses, apatosauruses, a T-rex, but the parasaurolophus, in all its weird glory, was always my favorite.
    Katherine Clover, The Cut, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Babies, not to say bad boys, would fall asleep back there, their nodding heads tipped over by the great weight of baby helmets covered in the spikes of a stegosaurus, poking into my back.
    The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Kids and young-at-heart dinosaur lovers of all ages will appreciate seeing the life-sized models of a triceratops, stegosaurus, and T-Rex, among other species.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
  • As for how Apex earned its name, Sotheby's says its considered the largest and most complete stegosaurus ever discovered.
    Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 31 May 2024
  • And another tiny stegosaurus turned up last year inside Steggie, the museum's iconic statue.
    Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 25 May 2017
  • Love the idea of seeing a realistic seeming T. rex or stegosaurus at full 40-plus-foot length — incidentally, the same length as the bona fide T. rex skeleton known as Sue inside the Field — and you’ll be awestruck.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
  • In conclusion: An absurd number of punts are being fumbled, and Jurassic Park needed more stegosauruses, which is the best dinosaur.
    Gary Gramling, SI.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • In total, researchers now know that five types of theropod, six types of sauropod, four types of ornithopod and six types of armored dinosaur roamed the coasts, and spotted the only evidence of a stegosaurus in the region to date.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2017
  • A touch of the stegosaurus card, for example, summons up a report on drones being used to map dinosaur footprints in locations too remote for scientists to reach.
    William Grimes, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • And then protruding out from that flat strip are two parallel ruffles that are perpendicular, sticking up from the flat strip, almost like stegosaurus’ spine.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • A third juxtaposes the size of a Volkswagen Beetle driven by a poofy-haired woman with a stegosaurus sporting the same pale violet coloration as the vehicle.
    Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
  • But people can also bypass that completely and head right toward that violent T. rex vs. triceratops display, as well as to view other dinosaurs like the allosaurus and stegosaurus.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 5 June 2019
  • This cute dino backpack features brontosauruses, stegosauruses, and more.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 June 2024

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