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• The potion made him into a toad.From the entry make into
• TOAD attacks often involve callback phishing, where victims are tricked into calling fake call centers.2024 June 6, Alex Lvoff, “How TOAD Scams Manipulate and Cheat Customers”, in Experian. From the entry TOAD attack
• Aristotle used vernacular names or names borrowed from terrestrial animals, such as mule, wolf or “sea toad”2023, G DeBucquet, “Consumer Perceptions of “Fish” Food”, in Current Challenges for the Aquatic Products. From the entry sea toad
• His greatest triumphs involved manipulating the love life of the ‘obstetric toad’ (the common midwife toad).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 39. From the entry obstetric toad
• People who are afraid of toads have bufonophobia, or are called bufonophobic.2017, Martina Nicolls, Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry bufonophobia
• I thank you, my lord, although many would call you a toad eater for such fine words.2011, Marsha Altman, The Road to Pemberley. From the entry toad eater
• Pieces of the deadly cane toad (Bufo marinus) are thought to be contained in some zombi poisons.2007 Gee, Joshua Encyclopedia Horrifica, Scholastic: New York. p110. From the entry cane toad
• How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment?2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 53. From the entry port
• When she moved the book the ancient toad hopped off silently, toadwise.2002, Janet Fox, A Witch's Dozen, page 69. From the entry toadwise
• He was a toad, a worm, a freit – not fit for human company.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 215. From the entry freit
• "Why did we return to this time, Touchwood?" Catweazle asked the toad.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 8. From the entry electrickery
• Moses started out his garden this year with only two toads.1905 June 15, A. J. R., “With the Long Bow”, in The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis, Minn., retrieved 15 Feb 2017, page 14. From the entry debug
• Similarly, a female toad prefers to mate with the largest possible male and approaches the one with the bassest voice.2020, Steven Vogel, Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants, page 44. From the entry bassest
• The midwife toad is a slow-moving, terrestrial amphibian represented by four species of the genus Alytes (family Discoglossidae).2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Reptiles and Amphibians, page 218. From the entry midwife toad
• American toads still fill spring nights with prolonged chirrings, while tree-frogs trill from perches in trees and shrubs.2008, Cornelia F. Mutel, The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa, page 166. From the entry chirring
• It wasn't clear if she was more toadly than ever, but she was certainly more of a toad than ever.2007, Bruce Coville, Gary A. Lippincott, Jennifer Murdley's Toad: A Magic Shop Book. From the entry toadly
• This should not be confused with bufonophobia, which is fear of toads, or batrachophobia, which is fear of amphibians.2006, William Hartston, Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopedia of Useless Information: The Supreme Miscellany of Fantastic Facts…. From the entry bufonophobia
• Now my father, the toad, conspires to sell me like a cheese to some lack-wit seeking a wife.1994, Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy, page 5. From the entry lack-wit
• The toad stared balefully at his reflection and puffed himself up to show that he wasn't really frightened.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 22. From the entry gump
• As a guide to start your collection we'd suggest either iguanas, tejus, swifts, basilisks, horned toads or alligator lizards.1965 March, Boys' Life, page 52. From the entry basilisk
• The poet Propertius refers to a philtre containing snake bones, a toad, and the feathers of a screech-owl.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 186. From the entry screech owl
• Toad ceased his frivolous antics at once.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry antic
• The brock, the toad, and the yellow yeorling Get a drap o' the de'il's bluid ilka May morning.1907, Country Life - Volume 21, page 376. From the entry yeorling
• Strictly speaking, the term toad should be restricted to members of the family Bufonidae, of which the common European and natterjack toads are good examples.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 36. From the entry warty
• As Spang elaborated: A “crapaud” was a toad and a “crapaudine” was a disease of sheep, so what did that make “pigeon a la crapaudine”?2018, Alison Pearlman, May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion. From the entry crapaudine
• For instance, a few decades ago, monkfish was not valued in some areas, where it was called sea toad and sold for very cheap prices.2001, R Flecha, J Gómez, L Puigvert, “Chapter 8: Interactionism”, in Counterpoints, volume 250, pages 57–61. From the entry sea toad
• He told me how the wise toad who squats among the kingcups by the stream in summer has a very precious jewel in his head.1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 99. From the entry kingcup
• Bromoacetyloxytocin (BrOXY) has been used to study the neurohypophyseal hormone receptor associated with the adenyl cyclase system of toad bladder and rabbit kidney medulla.1974, Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 9, →ISBN, page 227. From the entry broxy
• Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.1930, Mother Cecile in South Africa, 1883-1906: Foundress of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, page 37. From the entry podder
• They call him Carl, and he has a regular mania for collecting toads and bugs and frogs and bringing them into the house.1919 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, 1st World Publishing (2007), page 19. From the entry carl
• The Asian common toad has invaded so far into the islands of Wallacea in Indonesia that biologists fear they will soon threaten the rare Komodo dragon.2018 February 24, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian. From the entry Asian common toad
• A hezrou—a demon like a man-sized toad with spikes running down its back and arms and hands in place of forelegs—turned the handle and threw open the door.2010, Richard Lee Byers, Unclean: The Haunted Lands. From the entry hezrou
• Jorge seems fascinated. ‘You know, it’s hard to see but he looks very similar to the ferreret, the famous midwife toad they have up here in the mountains.2010, Nicholas, Anna, Goats from a small island : grabbing Mallorcan life by the horns, page 79. From the entry ferreret
• Speaking of toads—after a rainfall in South African country places, the roads would be hopping with great, fat, ugly, croaking toads (known to us kids as 'podders').2006, F. M. K. Ridgway, Our Wandering Years, page 227. From the entry podder
• “Baby, watch out for the undertoad.” I just had this vision of this big toad out there waiting to grab me and take me off to Cuba.2005, Kathy Ann Chandler, Honeysuckle Memories, Bitterweed Times, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry undertoad
• Now the only way to distinguish between the two is that the toadpole tends to turn into a toad, whereas the frogpole will tend to turn into a frog.2003 November 19, Peter Cook, “The Tadpole Expert”, in William W. Cook, editor, Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook…. From the entry toadpole
• A key preserved male specimen of the midwife toad was eventually shown to have been injected with India ink in the region of the normally pigmented nuptial pad.1997, John T. Burns, Cosmic Influences on Humans, Animals, and Plants: An Annotated Bibliography, page 195. From the entry midwife toad
• Toad in The Wind in the Willows, such a silly, pompous queen, and even Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family has a lot to say about non-human and non-nuclear arrangements.1986 December 7, Michael Bronsky, “Gay Man's Dream Realized in Benefit Production of archy and mehitabel"”, in Gay Community News, volume…. From the entry nuclear
• There also is the potential to disturb or destroy specific sites used by such species as the western diamond back rattlesnake, spade foot toad, and the desert tortoise.1973, United States Dept. of the Interior, Final Environmental Statement for the Geothermal Leasing Program. From the entry spade foot

Meaning of toad

1. noun An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
2. noun A contemptible or unpleasant person.
3. noun An ugly person.

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How do you use toad in a sentence?

Toad is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The potion made him into a toad.”

What is a short sentence with toad?

“The potion made him into a toad.”

What does toad mean?

Toad means an amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.