How to Use lizard in a Sentence

lizard

noun
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  • One of the workers pulls the lizard out of the drain by its tail, a video shows.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
  • The lizard had shed its skin and left the tracker behind.
    — al, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The handlers dragged the lizard out of the store and lured it towards a nearby brush.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The lizard runs from the bird until reaching a body of water.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The strong scent of wild thyme and sage hung in the air, and reddish brown lizards darted among crevices in the walls.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Both lizards are doing their best to change minds and hearts.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Insects use this method, but it’s thought that the lizards would be too big.
    — New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Did dinosaur blood run cold, like a lizard, or warm, like a bird?
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022
  • For a dinosaur whose name sounds a lot like a lizard, the Iguanodon sure got around.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The lizard brain is always running in the background, ready for fight or flight.
    — Elio Morillo, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
  • The lizards were found on humid nights perched about 15 feet off the ground on leaves above the entrance of a rock cave.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024
  • There are hundreds of legless lizard species found around the world.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Faraday is an alien in a new land, a lizard in a human skin suit.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • When an unsuspecting lizard takes the bait, the death adder strikes.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • As the evening sun trickled through the forest in Malaysia, an elusive lizard searched for a bed.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
  • So, she will not be retired like an old, crepe-y lizard.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But just how serious the risk is to the lizards remains a mystery.
    — Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The interaction doesn’t end there, as the lizards also feast on the plant’s seeds.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • During the visit, researchers found a 13-inch-long lizard, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
  • The chickens, lizard and tortoise, though, would have to stay with a friend in San Bernardino.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • That’s why a plastic lizard is a great choice in spring, when bass are spawning.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Isabel Isabel is the first to say her son (and his lizard) were poisoned.
    — Town & Country, 13 July 2023
  • The team plans to return to the creek bed site in the fall to finish excavating the rest of the lizard, per the Morning News.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Her boyfriend went back for her, sometimes to feed the family’s lizard or to retrieve the mail.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • So, the researchers stacked prepatterned heater strips under the fake lizard’s skin.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Kirk boulder-wrestled a guy in a lizard suit and weird toga.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • These options are unique, fun, and fitting for your lizard.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2020
  • But one street over, where my husband grew up, there wasn’t a single lizard to be seen.
    — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 25 July 2021
  • These lizards were also easy to find in the wild, unlike many other species.
    — David Schechter, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The big picture: Komodo dragons are known for being the largest lizards on earth.
    — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024

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