horny

Example Sentences

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The researchers conclude that the creature’s horny helmet was a powerful buttress for jousting with other males, they report today in Science.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022

Which raises a question scientists are now trying to answer: What happened to the horny toads?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2021

Don’t be fooled by the hazy visuals, retro aesthetic and moody lighting — this isn’t really part of the “Riverdale” darkly horny teen soap genre.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2020

Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for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

He prowled about by Mrs. Coulter’s sleeping bag, scratching with a little horny finger at the occasional glowflies that settled in the cave and smearing their luminescence over the rock.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman