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
• Mark is a low-key troglodyte; Paula is outspokenly progressive.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Now Gove’s remark became the source of the ashen taste in the mouths of Remoaner metropolitan elites bewailing how provincial troglodytes, geriatrics, and Little Englanders had dashed their rationalist, internationalist dreams.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024