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How to use reptilian in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective, noun

Reptilian means of or relating to the members of the class Reptilia (reptiles). Example: “The Mesozoic represents that time on Earth when life flourished, but when such life was primarily reptilian, before the Age of Mammals.”

Examples of reptilian by meaning

adjectiveOf or relating to the members of the class Reptilia (reptiles).

  • The Mesozoic represents that time on Earth when life flourished, but when such life was primarily reptilian, before the Age of Mammals.2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition

adjectiveReptilelike.

  • It is filled with blazing fires and half-human, half-animal beasts, with spiked reptilian tails.1982 February 6, Marsha Maurer, “Works in Progress”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 6

nounA reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the...

  • Such powerful human families would descend upon the reptilians themselves and they would be willing to do just anything to retain their power.2010, Chico Penteado, Talking to the Reptilians-A Report from Brazil, →ISBN, page 11
  • The reptilians are the creation of the Carians.2011, Collin Robert Bowling, A New Order of the Ages, →ISBN
  • Reptilians generally are envisioned as half snake, half human, and they are thought to have come from the Alpha Draconian star system.2015, Marty Crump, Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg, →ISBN

More sentences with reptilian

  • The perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians. ¶ We are all witness.2017 October 16, 4chan, /pol/, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023. From the entry gigachad
  • These images are avimorphic (bird form), ailouromorphic (cat form), and ophidiomorphic (reptilian form).2012 May, Danny Childs, “Shamanic Flight”, in A Study of Religion, Culture, and Medicinal Plants of Three South American Indigenous…. From the entry ailouromorphic
  • Maud's dances were termed “wiggly, writhy, squirmy”—rendering them more reptilian than artistic in tone.2005, Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome. From the entry writhy
  • These reptilians are sure bringing their own backpfeifengesicht, aren't they?2020, J. Michael Brower, Brian Miller: Dragon-Stars at War: Book Eight. From the entry backpfeifengesicht
  • Her eyes had a reptilian coldness about them as well.2011, Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer, Simon Pulse, page 204. From the entry turtleish
  • The first brain is the reptilian brain of the spinal cord, the brain of instinctive reflexes, the brain of the subconscious.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry brain
  • Thankfully, that sense of newness does come in the form of Ke Huy Quan’s Gary De’Snake, the first reptilian addition to Zootopia‘s all-mammal cast.2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club. From the entry newness
  • Dragonewts are reptilian humanoids who progress through a series of forms as they hone their state of mystical attunement with their draconic natures.2006, Robin D. Laws, Matthew Sprange, Glorantha: the Second Age, Mongoose Publishing, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry dragonewt
  • Less esteemed was her attempt to drive all snakes from the Apple Isle by paying convicts a shilling for each reptilian head brought to her.2004, “Jane Franklin: Not People of the First Respectability”, in Tim Flannery, editor, The Birth of Melbourne, page 96. From the entry Apple Isle
  • From the muse, from god, from literature itself, the subconscious mind, the Ur-mind, some kind of Jungian other, from the reptilian brain.1999, Susan K. Perry, Writing in flow: keys to enhanced creativity. From the entry ur-mind
  • The influence of genetic and physiologic factors on plasma protein composition are obvious for amphibian and reptilian plasmata, and is particularly striking for teleostian plasmata.1959, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, volume 13, page 1100. From the entry plasmata
  • The philosophy behind this meeting was to bring together scientists who specialised in the incubation and physiology of avian embryos with those workers interested in reptilian eggs and embryos.1991, D. Charles Deeming, Mark W. J. Ferguson, editors, Egg Incubation: Its Effects on Embryonic Development in Birds and Reptiles…. From the entry oology
  • From the fact that the dromæognathous skull is more reptilian than any other type, it would seem that the Ratitæ diverged early from the carinate stock.1921, William Aitcheson Haswell, A Text-book of Zoology, 3rd edition, volume 2, Macmillan, page 431. From the entry dromaeognathous
  • From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry mephitic

Meaning of reptilian

  1. adjective Of or relating to the members of the class Reptilia (reptiles).
  2. adjective Reptilelike.
  3. adjective Unthinking, low, base, contemptible.

Full definition of reptilian

Questions about reptilian in a sentence

How do you use reptilian in a sentence?
Reptilian is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The Mesozoic represents that time on Earth when life flourished, but when such life was primarily reptilian, before the Age of Mammals.”
What is a short sentence with reptilian?
“The reptilians are the creation of the Carians.”
What does reptilian mean?
Reptilian means of or relating to the members of the class Reptilia (reptiles).

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