How to use lizard in a sentence

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• There are serpentine species of lizards which do not have legs.From the entry serpentine
• My lizard likes to spend his days basking on the stone near the lamp.From the entry bask
• Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.From the entry creep
• There are asexual variants among all sorts of creatures, including jellyfish, dandelions, lichens and lizards.2018 April 24, John Launer, “Do We Even Need Men?”, in Literary Hub. From the entry jellyfish
• The Tenerife giant lizard, Gallotia goliath, was a one-metre-long herbivore, with powerful jaws.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 98. From the entry Tenerife giant lizard
• For over a century the La Gomera giant lizard (Gallotia bravoana) was thought to be extinct.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 98. From the entry La Gomera giant lizard
• Fruits and a ‘salipenter (large lizard)’ were what he used to help with his hunger.2016 August 11, Neil Primus, “Goings and Comings”, in Nigel Williams, editor, Guyana Chronicle, Georgetown, Guyana: Guyana National…. From the entry salipenter
• When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.2015 March 16, Andreas Wagner, “Possible creatures”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2018. From the entry glass lizard
• They’d watched a herd of cat-sized lizards hunting massive elephantish creatures.2015, Tim Lebbon, Predator: Incursion, Titan Books, page 90. From the entry elephantish
• Osteoderms, especially those fused to cranial elements, are common in monstersaurians, and in some other lizard groups.2012, MEAD, JIM I., SCHUBERT, BLAINE W., WALLACE, STEVEN C., SWIFT, SANDRA L., “Helodermatid lizard from the Mio-Pliocene oak-hickory…. From the entry monstersaurian
• Both glanced at my carry-on luggage, then blinked me away, as disinterested as sunning lizards.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.62-63. From the entry sunning
• I remarked to the guardienne about the number of lizards running everywhere in the ruins.2008, Martin Calder, A Summer in Gascony: Discovering the Other South of France, Nicholas Brealey Pub, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry guardienne
• During daily mistings, the lizards drank droplets of water from the plant leaves.2001, Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett, Day Geckos. From the entry misting
• Wayne Newton says he has one request: Never call an entertainer a "lounge lizard."1999, Nevada Department of Economic Developmenthttps://books.google.com/books?id=PELZHXcIZoMC. From the entry lounge lizard
• She reminded Bojan of a desert lizard throwing up its frill to frighten predators.1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 54, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press. From the entry frill
• In discussing the “lot lizards” who hang out in car lots Lisa comments: This will amaze you.1994, Steven Michael Ortiz, When Happiness Ends and Coping Begins, page 238. From the entry lot lizard
• The lizard was simply going about its lizardly business in a simple, straightforward lizardly way.1989, Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See. From the entry lizardly
• Thus, the lungs of all turtles, tortoises, monitor lizards, and crocodiles are multicameral lungs.1989, D. B. Wake, G. Roth, Complex Organismal Functions: Integration and Evolution in Vertebrates. From the entry multicameral
• Maybe he's doin' a run to Shakey Town where some lot lizard checks his dip stick.1986, University of Kansas City Review, volume 53. From the entry lot lizard
• I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard.1985 July 13, net.singles. From the entry lounge lizard
• In the yellow sand of the track ahead a stumpy tail lizard lies inert.1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 129. From the entry stumptail
• GECKOES constitute a family of lizards remarkable for the large number of species it contains.1962, Maurice Burton, “Geckoes”, in The Illustrated London News, volume CCXL, number II, London: Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd.…. From the entry gecko
• Lizards usually have white flesh, tasting more like fowl than anything else.1922, Chambers’s Journal, volume XCIX, part 139, London; Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers […], →OCLC, page 421, column 1. From the entry salipenter
• Somewhere out there, predatory lizards called chapsosaurs and large alligator-like crocodilians lurk, mostly submerged in the water, snapping at fish.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 107. From the entry champsosaur
• Skinks are lizards, but some species have lost their limbs over eons of evolution, giving them a snakelike look.2020 October 11, Veronique Greenwood, “How Some Skinks Lost Their Legs and Then Evolved New Ones”, in The New York Times. From the entry snakelike
• A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.2018 October 15, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for…. From the entry predator
• The river leapt and rippled like a lizard.2013, Nancy Springer, We Don't Know Why. From the entry vee
• From left: Chinese crocodile lizard Shinisaurus crocodilurus (L.2009, Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, Herpetology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Academic Press, page 544. From the entry Chinese crocodile lizard
• Porras); flathead knob-scaled lizard Xenosaurus platyceps, Xenosauridae (L.2009, Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, Herpetology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Academic Press, page 544. From the entry Chinese crocodile lizard
• Baby beardies quickly grow into long, strong lizards!2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20. From the entry beardy
• A favourite prey species is the sanda or spiny-tailed lizard.1997, Valmik Thapar, Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent, →ISBN. From the entry sanda
• In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.1992 May 15, Effie Mihopoulos, “Silent Messengers”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry chokingly
• She has dropped it by autotomy, like the tail or claw of a fleeing lizard, lobster, or starfish.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry autotomy
• As Kerin came abreast of the reptile, the lizard opened its eyes, looked around, and rose on stumpy legs.1989, L. Sprague de Camp, The Honorable Barbarian, page 45. From the entry fangful
• Scientists have made our work a bit easier by dividing living lizards into two major groups: the ascalabotans and the autarchoglossans.1987, Arthur Rosenfeld, Exotic Pets, page 84. From the entry autarchoglossan
• On top it's a dry cactused area inhabited by typical upper desert creatures such as kangaroo rats and collared lizards.1977, Jack Couffer, Mike Couffer, Canyon Summer, Putnam, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry cactused
• Once a monitor lizard lashed its tail at the face of a lioness and she woofed as she jumped back.1972, George B[eals] Schaller, “Behavior within the Group”, in The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator–Prey Relations (Wildlife Behavior…. From the entry woof

Meaning of lizard

1. noun Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or mosasaur—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.
2. noun Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
3. noun An unctuous person.

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How do you use lizard in a sentence?

Lizard is used as a noun. For example: “There are serpentine species of lizards which do not have legs.”

What is a short sentence with lizard?

“Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.”

What does lizard mean?

Lizard means any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or mosasaur—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.