How to Use monitor lizard in a Sentence

monitor lizard

noun

• Still, birds, snakes, and monitor lizards are among the main predators of the bluetongue skink.
  — Shane Black, National Geographic, 8 June 2018
• This gigantic species of monitor lizard grows up to ten feet long and can weigh in the hundreds of pounds.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2013
• Wild monitor lizards are caught and bent backwards or burnt alive to make their genitals protrude.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
• Can Florida stop the spread of Nile monitor lizards?
  — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Animals like birds, monitor lizards, snakes, and monkeys are seen throughout.
  — Jim Halterman, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2025
• The Komodo dragon is a monitor lizard of the genus Varanus.
  — Craig Stanford, Big Think, 7 May 2026
• For anyone who has kept or admired monitor lizards, the appeal needs no explanation.
  — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026
• Some of these overlook a pretty lake, which comes complete with a family of otters and elusive monitor lizards.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Black throat monitor lizards can grow up to 7 feet long and weigh as much as 60 pounds, according to Oakland Zoo.
  — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
• But apart from jawless lampreys, the extinct monitor lizard is the only vertebrate known to have two additional eyes.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2018
• And because of this, there's a patchwork of armored and unarmored monitor lizards walking the Earth today.
  — New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
• Like most monitor lizards, Komodo dragons are carnivores and hunters by nature.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2023
• Up the road, a monitor lizard, a creature more crocodile than newt, lumbered across the tarmac, with little traffic to impede its crossing.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021
• From the monitor lizard on the Phoenix freeway to a rare ocelot sighting in southern Arizona, here are the top eight animal videos of the year.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2024
• Neither Rothwell nor Belinda was a fan of the giant monitor lizard with whom her character shares a scene.
  — Phoebe Reilly, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
• It was initially believed to be a monitor lizard, but witness accounts have shown otherwise, the department said.
  — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
• Today, monitor lizards are considered to be among the most intelligent of all cold-blooded animals.
  — Craig Stanford, Big Think, 7 May 2026
• However, Godzilla’s bite is by no means weak, and all of his teeth are flesh-piercing, similar to crocodile and monitor lizard teeth.
  — Kiersten Formoso, The Conversation, 29 Mar. 2021
• This video shows a monitor lizard skull fossil fragment with both the parietal and pineal foramina visible (highlighted in yellow).
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Also known as monitor lizards, these reptiles can be found in the wild in South East Asia, and usually do not engage with people.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
• The extinct Saniwa ensidens, a monitor lizard, lived around 34 million years ago.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• Their modern-day relatives include the monitor lizard and Komodo dragon.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• There were other animal remains as well, including deer, a turtle, a monitor lizard and a stegodon, an elephant relative with a weird sideways trunk.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
• The team also found the remains of Philippine brown deer, freshwater turtles and monitor lizards during the excavation.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2018
• Although the black and white tegu resembles many monitor lizard species, they are actually only distantly related to the reptiles.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 June 2026
• Pops of color arrive in the form of floral murals (look closely for cameos of monitor lizards and the Asian koels that provide much of the background bird soundtrack) on the living room walls.
  — Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2025
• And your friends could soon find a perfect duplicate of that cute-as-a-button ferret or that feisty Sahara monitor lizard waiting under the Christmas tree.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Customers at a 7-Eleven in Thailand were in for a surprise when a giant Asian monitor lizard scurried into the convenience store.
  — Amy Wray, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
• The aquarium features a wide variety of marine life, from water-dwellers like sharks, jellyfish and dolphins to ocean-adjacent species like puffins, turtles and monitor lizards.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• The lizard, most likely a monitor lizard, is seen in the 40-second video trying to literally knock at the home's door and scratch at it by finding a way to get into the house while standing on a windowsill.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022