toad

Example Sentences

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At another point, a giant monitor behind the action featured Concho, the singer’s crested toad mascot.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2026

Though if it had been a cane toad - one of the country's most damaging, and ugly pests - that would be another story, she said.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

And then he doesn’t get the response he wants and runs out flailing, like a toad that finally got turned back into a man?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

"I put a toad in a pothole – not a real toad – and wrote: 'This is my favourite Sunday dish.' And people either get it or they don't."

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024

With his lips clamped shut and his eyes bulging out of their sockets, he looked like a toad on steroids, but Mamá knew he was about to explode, so she nudged me aside.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall