horny

Example Sentences

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As a kid in the 1990s, I wandered this desert freely, catching iguanas when I couldn’t find horny toads.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Dr. Turner suggests the meshlike structures closely resemble the fiber networks of modern keratose sponges, also known as horny sponges, found around the world today.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 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Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny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

It had short legs thick as tree trunks with flat, horny feet.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling