dippy

Example Sentences

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The family decided to cut their holiday short to take the axolotl back to their home in Leicester, naming it Dippy as a tribute to where Evie found it.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Like Dippy, three fourths of all sauropods weighed less than the largest land mammal.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

Dippy the diplodocus has gone on display at a cathedral in the final leg of a national tour.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2021

Nevertheless, you’d call the 60s his heyday, the decade of Epistle to Dippy and The Hurdy Gurdy Man, often playing on his own, doors swinging open wherever he went.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2020

"He thinks he's on a canal boat," jeered Dippy.

From The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers Or, On the Trail of the Border Bandits by Patchin, Frank Gee