How to Use dinosaur in a Sentence
dinosaur
noun
- The old factory is now a rusting dinosaur.
- The character she plays is a dinosaur—a former beauty queen who is living in the past.
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In life, those dinosaurs ranged in size from house cat to T. rex.
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Anna Gibbs,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Mar. 2023
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The light my scope had caught had been en route to us since around the time the first dinosaurs emerged on Earth.
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PCMAG,
16 May 2024
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The first-look deal is going to be a dinosaur very soon.
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Rebecca Keegan,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Mar. 2023
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Did dinosaur blood run cold, like a lizard, or warm, like a bird?
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Katie Hunt,
CNN,
17 Apr. 2022
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Experts said the dinosaurs may have laid eggs there because of the warm ground.
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Jordan Mendoza,
USA TODAY,
3 Apr. 2023
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Come to the park for a few close encounters with a dinosaur.
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cleveland,
30 Apr. 2022
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There are a lot of strange-looking dinosaurs out there.
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Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
22 Feb. 2024
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The high bidder also won the right to name the dinosaur’s skeleton.
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Vimal Patel,
BostonGlobe.com,
29 July 2022
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Her son was wearing a blue T-shirt with a dinosaur print, and blue pants.
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Bill Lukitsch,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2024
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Choosing the best dinosaur toy for your kid is no easy task.
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Kylee McGuigan,
Popular Mechanics,
21 Sep. 2022
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The entire arm of Meraxes is less than half the length of the dinosaur’s thigh bone.
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Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2022
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Kids can smash their way through the shell and the compound inside to dig out the pieces of a buildable dinosaur.
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Marisa Lascala,
Good Housekeeping,
28 Mar. 2023
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Not to mention pagers and fax machines have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, too.
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Marisa Sloan,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2023
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Bring along your favorite dinosaur to learn and have fun.
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John Coffren,
Baltimore Sun,
19 May 2022
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The themes of past boxes include dinosaurs, the zoo, and weather.
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Julia Pelly,
Parents,
24 Oct. 2023
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To some, with his how-slow-can-you-go body movements, Lowry is a dinosaur.
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Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Nov. 2022
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The monarch walks out of the Abbey and into that dinosaur gold coach carrying both scepters.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2023
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And the only branding on the bag is the very cool skeletal dinosaur/bird-type thing that is the Arc’teryx logo.
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Lisa Jhung,
Outside Online,
9 Oct. 2024
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This species was a plant eater, but other dinosaurs were meat eaters or ate both.
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Maddie Burakoff,
BostonGlobe.com,
18 July 2023
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You‘ll want to linger on the top of the hill to marvel at the giant dinosaur battle with a T. Rex that unfolds there.
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
23 July 2024
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Drake Wright’s parrot, his eagle and even his dinosaur were the lucky ones.
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Maggie Menderski,
The Courier-Journal,
30 July 2022
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Apart from agate hunters and dinosaur buffs, few outsiders came through.
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Thomas McGuane,
The New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2022
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So the asteroid wasn’t a singular Grim Reaper for the dinosaurs, but the coup de grâce that sealed their fate.
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WIRED,
28 Sep. 2023
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Eventually, all three girls sit down on the front of the Jeep and pretend to search for dinosaurs.
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Emma Aerin Becker,
People.com,
1 Nov. 2024
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For kids, dinosaurs are sort of where real life and magic meet.
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Ashley Ziegler,
Parents,
13 Apr. 2024
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The park is known for its bevy of dinosaur and sea creature fossils, along with volcanic rock.
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Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Apr. 2024
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From small children to adults, dinosaurs transport us to a time long ago that conquers wonderment in today's world.
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Claire Thornton,
USA TODAY,
14 Dec. 2024
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Five years after the events of Dominion, in which dinosaurs mingled with humans all over the globe, these creatures are now dying out.
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Nick Romano,
EW.com,
18 Dec. 2024
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