How to Use lizard in a Sentence

lizard

noun

• 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
• Did dinosaur blood run cold, like a lizard, or warm, like a bird?
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022
• The lizard brain is always running in the background, ready for fight or flight.
  — Elio Morillo, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Kirk boulder-wrestled a guy in a lizard suit and weird toga.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Researchers also found birds, fish, snails, rodent teeth, a lizard and a bird at the site.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• Those big fat raindrops kiss the ocotillo, dance among saguaro spines and water our vast herd of lizards.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• By some accounts, the creature appears as a four-legged lizard with a long neck and a single horn.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• The American woman had to adjust to the bugs and lizards that were found inside her son’s home.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• The large-scale search had one goal: find and identify a specific type of lizard.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• The high mobility of the lizards posed a major problem.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• Keep an eye out for critters like lizards and June beetles, too.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Watch giant lizard claw at the window of a Florida home.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
• Hatchling length for this glass lizard ranges around 7 inches.
  — Sarah Claire McDonald The Island Packet (hilton Head Island, S.c.) (tns), al, 19 Sep. 2023
• Oh, and there’s a 200-foot-tall lizard terrorizing the country.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Still, there were hermit crabs and lizards creeping among the sea grapes, as there had been for millions of years, and wild cotton along the edges of the cliffs.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• There are colors that pop and sounds that worm their way into your deepest lizard brain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• None of them wanted to shoot something that came from the mouth of a deadly lizard into patients.
  — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
• The team also discovered a second new species of wood lizard.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
• Based on the study’s evolutionary tree, snakes appear to have evolved up to about three times faster than lizards.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
• The super-soft body allows for even greater movement, and this lizard has been the ticket for some of my biggest bass to date.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024