horny
Example Sentences
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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
The lizards face yet another, more natural, problem: Just about anything that can eat a horny toad will eat a horny toad.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny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
Barely ten inches high, its horny little feet pattered very fast as it sprinted across the yard and dived headlong into one of the Wellington boots that lay scattered around the door.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
