reptile

Example Sentences

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Not to belabor the reptile references, but Byrne is something of a creative chameleon, moving easily from drama to comedy to horror, film to television to stage and back again.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Ewan Bodenham, 29, named the prehistoric reptile after his former physics teacher David Rhys Jones in Cardigan, Ceredigion.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

It may have resembled a lizard, but it lived before reptiles and mammals branched into separate evolutionary paths, so it was not technically a reptile.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

He couldn't be here because, um, we're getting a bearded dragon, and he went to a reptile expo in New Jersey.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

After lunch they went to the reptile house.

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