horny

Example Sentences

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In the study of sponge evolution, horny sponges are notoriously challenging.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2021

The lizards face yet another, more natural, problem: Just about anything that can eat a horny toad will eat a horny toad.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2021

Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2019

Apart from the tusks, dicynodonts were mostly toothless, with a horny beak like modern-day turtles.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2018

Barely ten inches high, its horny little feet pattered very fast as it sprinted across the yard and dived headlong into one of the Wellington boots that lay scattered around the door.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling