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How to use rhino in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Rhino means money. Example: “They said they'd never heard of medetomidine, but when the cop referred to it by its street name — rhino tranq — their ears perked up.”

Examples of rhino by meaning

nounMoney.

  • —Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

nounA rhinoceros.

  • ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted.1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24
  • This cutting from an East African newspaper caught our eye last month: "The up mail train from Mombasa was held up for an hour at Kibwezi by an angry rhino on Monday night."1961 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. exile at work?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586

More sentences with rhino

  • They said they'd never heard of medetomidine, but when the cop referred to it by its street name — rhino tranq — their ears perked up.From the entry street name
  • Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205. From the entry musk ox
  • Among them were the ancient palaeotheriids, early relatives of the rhinos, tapirs and horses.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 64. From the entry palaeotheriid
  • “I don’t think so.” He grinned hugely, revealing smoker’s teeth and halitosis that would fell a rhino.2009, Kessler, Jackie (Jackie H.), Black and white, page 39. From the entry hero
  • It has peculiarly big toenails, but I guess that's the way baby rhinos are.2005 September 6, Adrian Searle, “Fairground distraction”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry big toenail
  • The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals.1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19. From the entry crash
  • I like composing acrostics while calculating the number of oxpeckers cleaning ticks from buffalo, giraffes and fellow rhinos.2021, Graham Fulbright, Snowcub, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics.: Matador, →ISBN, pages 219–220. From the entry bicorn
  • Merck's rhino and the narrow-nosed rhino were close relatives, having diverged from a common ancestor a million or so years ago.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 198. From the entry narrow-nosed rhino
  • Nodosaurs are ankylosaurid dinosaurs: armoured herbivorous reptiles that look like the love-child of a rhino and an army tank.2017 September 27, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian. From the entry nodosaur
  • Musthy males do not always confine their rage to other elephants, however, as zoo keepers and white rhinos can attest.2004, Richard C. Francis, “Social Inhibitions”, in Why Men Won’t Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology, Princeton, N.J.…. From the entry musthy
  • A group of rhinos is called a crash.1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19. From the entry crash
  • For the past 18 months, there has been a new drug in circulation, the veterinary sedative medetomidine, also known as “rhino tranq”.2025 December 22, Mattha Busby, “‘It’s made things worse for everyone’: Philadelphia grapples with rise of new street drug. Medetomidine…. From the entry medetomidine
  • The mukonde (candelabra tree) was a four-sided cactus like plant with a poisonous white sap, although a rhino had no problems chewing the fresh shoots.2019, Dr. Ross Gordon Cooper, Crocodile Creek tree house, page 11. From the entry candelabra tree
  • All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205. From the entry musk ox
  • The range of Europe's rhinos extended far to the east: Merck's rhino as far as Afghanistan, and the narrow-nosed rhino as far as eastern China.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 198. From the entry Merck's rhino
  • Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid.2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 546. From the entry squad

Meaning of rhino

  1. noun Money.
  2. noun A rhinoceros.

Full definition of rhino

Questions about rhino in a sentence

How do you use rhino in a sentence?
Rhino is used as a noun. For example: “They said they'd never heard of medetomidine, but when the cop referred to it by its street name — rhino tranq — their ears perked up.”
What is a short sentence with rhino?
“A group of rhinos is called a crash.”
What does rhino mean?
Rhino means money.

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