How to Use dinosaur in a Sentence

dinosaur

noun
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  • 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.
  • In life, those dinosaurs ranged in size from house cat to T. rex.
    — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Experts said the dinosaurs may have laid eggs there because of the warm ground.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There are a lot of strange-looking dinosaurs out there.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Her son was wearing a blue T-shirt with a dinosaur print, and blue pants.
    — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Kids can smash their way through the shell and the compound inside to dig out the pieces of a buildable dinosaur.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Not to mention pagers and fax machines have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, too.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The themes of past boxes include dinosaurs, the zoo, and weather.
    — Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The monarch walks out of the Abbey and into that dinosaur gold coach carrying both scepters.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • This species was a plant eater, but other dinosaurs were meat eaters or ate both.
    — Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • So the asteroid wasn’t a singular Grim Reaper for the dinosaurs, but the coup de grâce that sealed their fate.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The sporty shoe includes a dinosaurs leather lace and is ideal for stomping around like a T-rex at top speeds.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The dinosaur may have had feathers, but researchers can’t tell for certain from the fossil.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Their story is seldom told, overshadowed both by the success of the beaked birds and the charisma of the non-avian dinosaurs.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In addition to the dinosaur, there are white and brown horse options available as well.
    — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Even while being chased by dinosaurs, Ramón Vega and Christian Nodal can’t get the girl that broke their hearts out of their minds.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 27 July 2023
  • The famous Crystal Palace dinosaur exhibit is all the rage.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The bones belonged to the jawbone of a gigantic ichthyosaur, an aquatic dinosaur roughly the size of a modern-day blue whale.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The refineries in Rodeo and Martinez are dinosaurs that should go extinct.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The dinosaurs’ demise gets all the attention, but the survival of plants is at least as important a chapter in the story of the planet.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • Cooper is a rambunctious 3-year-old who loves Hot Wheels and dinosaurs.
    — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • This suggests the large dinosaurs needed lips to preserve their fangs, researchers say.
    — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The little boy’s face was blocked out with a heart, but he could be seen wearing adorable pants that transformed into a dinosaur body and head at his waist.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And the lack of tooth marks on the bones of the dinosaur suggests the mammal was actively hunting—not merely scavenging—its meal.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • Recent depictions show big teeth jutting out of the dinosaurs’ jaws, even when closed.
    — Maddie Burakoff, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Vernal Pools are safe havens for creatures like the fairy shrimp, who have lived through the end of the dinosaurs, the breakup of Pangea, and multiple ice ages, but humans are paving them over.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 8 May 2023
  • Dino is around 2-and-a-half feet long, according to Smoak, and resembles a small dinosaur.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2024
  • That’s not counting all the watchful eyes of Greek gods, giant ants and wandering dinosaurs.
    — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • All of which makes Carl, already a dinosaur in ‘70s duds, that much more irrelevant.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2023

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