How to Use trilobite in a Sentence

trilobite

noun

• The trilobites were blind, so they couldn’t have queued up by sight.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 17 Oct. 2019
• That’s right—all of the beetles that look like trilobites are females.
  — Thomas Marent, National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2016
• This is the first time researchers have been able to describe a trilobite that was translucent.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
• Some 290 million years ago, as the last trilobites scuttled across the seafloor, the skies above grew just a little more ominous.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2019
• Think trilobites to the woolly mammoth with T. rex in between.
  — Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2018
• Ancient creatures such as trilobites and brachiopods could not cope with the changes, and many of them went extinct.
  — Alexandra Witze, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2011
• And while that sucked for trilobites, life was eventually able to make a comeback.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2017
• His kite was in the shape of a trilobite, an ancient marine animal that lived some 500 million years ago.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 1 May 2018
• And the eye told scientists something else about the trilobite in general.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
• The researchers found that its appendages would have been damaged while grabbing onto hard prey like trilobites.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
• It’s a centimeter-long trilobite called Aulacopleura koninckii that split in half as the rock layer was peeled apart.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2020
• From above, Palm Jumeirah resembles a palm tree with spreading branches, or maybe a trilobite fossil.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• The event took its hardest toll on marine organisms such as corals, shelled brachiopods, eel-like creatures called conodonts, and the trilobites.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• All the site’s trilobites are also juveniles, suggesting that this could have been a nursery.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
• Taken together, these factors led the researchers to speculate that the trilobites had died in the midst of their ill-fated conga line.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 17 Oct. 2019
• For instance, on some of the fossils, other types of trilobites occasionally appear to be joining the line.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2019
• No plants, no animals, certainly nothing that even compared to the great diversity of life in the sea, which teemed with trilobites, crustaceans, bristly worms, and soft squid-like creatures.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
• The ancient soft parts are offering new insights into the behavior of trilobites, the insect-like creatures that ruled Earth’s early seas for hundreds of millions of years.
  — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2017
• This particular trilobite could see about 200 facets or pixels.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
• The eye’s anatomy indicates the trilobite lived in a bright, shallow-water environment.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
• From one layer to the next one above, no more trilobites or nightmarish placoderms or dimetrodons—entire animal reigns and ecosystems have vanished.
  — Manu Saadia, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2017
• One of the most successful early animals, trilobites lived in variety of lifestyles.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2018
• In the case of one particular 429-million-year-old trilobite—an extinct arthropod that looked like a big version of a wood louse—a crack in just the right place has allowed paleontologists to see the world through the creature’s eyes.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
• Arrayed behind them, in majestic costumes by Loren Shaw that fuse the papal with the insectoid (they are meant to suggest trilobites, long extinct), is a choir called the Crossing, softly chanting.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
• This isn’t the first line of the little trilobites ever discovered, reports Michael Greshko at National Geographic.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
• A Clovis Paleo Indian point and an Isotelus trilobite signify the rare geological artifacts that can be found in the area.
  — cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
• The trilobite’s eye is very different from our own, Schoenemann notes, because it is made up of dozens of facets that would have created a mosaic image of the creature’s environment.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
• Other species, like Diploneis smithii, whose segmented shell resembles a slender trilobite, prefer saline waters.
  — Jack Tamisiea, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2022
• As the researchers note in the study, another trilobite species, Holmia kjerulfi, evolved just a few million years later and had even better eyesight, approximating the modern dragonfly.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2017
• Researchers worked with information from 295 trilobite fossils collected in New York state.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024