horny
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In the study of sponge evolution, horny sponges are notoriously challenging.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
“Some old rancher would get up and say, ‘We had horny toads and we should have them again!
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Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny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
He saw the dark horny feet of the men and their ragged white clothes, and he heard the creak of leather of the saddle and the clink of spurs.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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The glass, again, though elegant and quaint, and very varied in form, was somewhat bubbled and hornier in texture than the commercial articles of the nineteenth century.
From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by William Morris
Like I said mate, I've been a surfin fool, I'm the horniest I have been for surfing in years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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