lizard
Example Sentences
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A Sydney man who tried to post native lizards, dragons and other reptiles out of Australia in bags of popcorn and biscuit tins has been sentenced to eight years in jail, authorities said Tuesday.
From Barron's
"I filmed it with my friend Beau and we were in this cave, trying to catch lizards," he said.
From BBC
And the crickets and lizards and other small creatures that usually inhabited woods like this?
From Literature
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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
It’s not exactly a chicken and dinosaur-egg question, but which came first, the mammal or the giant lizard?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.