How to Use troglodyte in a Sentence

troglodyte

noun

• Of course, the gesture was not made without the troglodytes crawling up from the dark, dank holes.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 2 Feb. 2018
• The 57-year-old Díaz-Canel sounds like, and acts, like another geriatric troglodyte.
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 22 Aug. 2017
• To troglodytes like me, the writing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights was perhaps the greatest cause of the nation.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
• Set foot inside the amazing cave dwellings known as troglodyte homes—charming houses built in and around cliff-side caverns.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The troglodytes and the unhappy housewives and the shallow, pedantic millennials will start to glow and shimmer.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 13 Sep. 2017
• In tourist centers like Alcalá del Júcar, visitors flock to see medieval troglodyte caves, some of which have now been turned into bars and restaurants.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• The animals include short-faced bears known as Arctotherium wingei and the wolf-like Protocyon troglodytes.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2019
• Pan troglodytes, to use the scientific name for chimps, is one of our closest evolutionary ancestors.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
• The obvious solution is to convince your voters not to nominate troglodytes.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Jan. 2018
• Writing critics off as a gang of right-wing troglodytes, the standard tactic of many of Pope Francis’s defenders, is not just derisive and condescending.
  — Francis X. Maier, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
• Wobber’s study looked at the physiological changes in hormones circulating in the body in two of the closest relatives of humans, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus).
  — Brian_mossop, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2010
• And if a Warren candidacy — or anyone else’s — ensures that Democrats will spend another four years accusing half the country of being moral troglodytes while waiting for demographics to win them elections, Republicans should support their efforts.
  — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017

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