How to Use triceratops in a Sentence

triceratops

noun

• The triceratops is known for its three horns on the head.
  — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
• One sleeps with a stuffed triceratops, the other with a plush T. rex.
  — Rachel Walker, idahostatesman, 12 May 2017
• The three-year-old can build three lovable dinosaurs — a T-rex, triceratops, and stegosaurus — with this kit.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022
• In one, a tiny triceratops grew to lifesize before the board members' eyes.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 May 2022
• No doubt that a triceratops would be quite the asset on the football field, but its hard to 'beat' our Giant Heart.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• An ill triceratops turns out to have eaten a poisonous plant that no one on the park staff thought twice about planting.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• On the flight line perches a crazy-looking twin-fuselaged aircraft cradling a spaceship — the three sharp noses call to mind its nickname: Triceratops.
  — Carl Hoffman, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2009
• In 2017, a fossilized triceratops skull was found at a construction site in Thornton, Colorado.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2019
• This leaf fell off a tree around the time that T-rex and triceratops roamed prehistoric forests, but the plant is instantly recognizable.
  — Christina Larson, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
• According to auctioneers Binoche et Giquello, Big John is the world’s largest triceratops and stretches a whopping 26 feet from tip to tail.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2021
• There's also a brief cameo by Trevorrow's son, who also popped up in the beginning of the original Jurassic World as the kid riding a triceratops.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 10 June 2021
• For some moments of genuine serenity, hop behind the wheel of a ranger mobile and drive through herds of triceratops grazing out in the wilderness of Washington state.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 30 Dec. 2021
• The fossilized remains of a dinosaur that was discovered at a Colorado construction site last month have been identified as a triceratops.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2019
• Two married couples do nocturnal battle over enough hard liquor to kill a triceratops in Edward Albee’s unhinged 1962 classic, the drawing-room play to end all drawing-room plays.
  — Chicago Reader, 10 Aug. 2017
• In 2017, horned dinosaur fossils were uncovered at Thornton, a Denver construction site, and were revealed to belong to a triceratops relative, the torosaurus.
  — Erin Davis and Brian Ries, CNN, 21 June 2019
• The team was following up after alumni, students and Schmidt uncovered the tip of a triceratops horn last summer — which a local rancher had originally found poking out of the earth.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
• Anys, now in a triceratops costume, had created an engine of amusement, in which each kill brought her closer to winning while simultaneously making her cringe.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
• However, Big John does bear the wounds of a difficult life, with a laceration in his collar from an altercation with a smaller triceratops, which the auctioneers said was due to territorial defense or courtship of a mate.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
• Interspersed amid this whimsical woodland are several large-scale dinosaur statues, including a Tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• Families can interact with animatronic dinos including herrerasaurus, amargasaurus, iguanodon, neovenator, oviraptor, protoceratops, velociraptor, hadrosaur, leallynasaura, minmi, Spinosaurus, triceratops and the ever-popular Tyrannosaurus rex.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024