How to Use gharial in a Sentence

gharial

noun
  • The baby gharials have grown to just a little over a foot in length.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Today’s crocodiles, alligators and gharials are the last survivors of a much more varied lineage.
    — New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The false gharial gets its moniker from its resemblance to the Indian gharial, despite being a different species.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Today’s crocodiles, alligators and gharials represent just a small surviving branch of a once-vast lineage.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The semiaquatic predator’s eyes would have also protruded from the skull, similar to the Indian gharial, because the eye sockets were raised like a telescope, Burke added.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Visitors can see the juvenile gharials hatched in previous years in their indoor habitat at the Fort Worth Zoo’s Museum of Living Art.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Burke, who was reconstructing fossil gharials for his doctoral project, noted the subtle differences between the unidentified species and the false gharial, and started to work on an up-to-date description in December 2023.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

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