reptilian

Example Sentences

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In the painting’s right half, a skirmish of tiny reptilian patches dominates.

From New York Times

For a while, many neuroscientists believed that human brains could be split into three different segments: the reptilian brain, the paleomammalian brain, and the neomammalian brain.

From Salon

It retells a European folk tale — about love, a curse, broken promises and reptilian transformations — in songs new and old.

From New York Times

A major donor to Tár’s conducting program is a reptilian wannabe conductor named Eliot Kaplan, who looks like Gilbert Kaplan did in the early 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times

A trench coat was deconstructed into its constituent parts and fanned open dramatically to form a sort of reptilian hood trailing at the back.

From Seattle Times