How to Use duckbill in a Sentence

duckbill

noun
  • Chin agrees that the duckbills may not have hunted the animals.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Unlike a platypus, a short-beaked echidna doesn't have a duckbill or swim in streams.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2016
  • Life-size apples hung on hats of red felt; daisies were wrapped around plaid duckbills, and a pixie cap of straw was molded into fruit shapes.
    — Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Shaped like a thick duckbill, this perforated rubber clog has long been a closet staple for nurses and cooks.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2021
  • And then there were the Ornithischia, which had a more bird-like kind of hip, and comprised armored dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs, duckbill dinosaurs and their relatives.
    — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Some 75 million years ago, a duckbill did its business and, unwittingly, its bit for science.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Although these sculptural lamps are sold at retailers throughout the country today, the duckbill light originated in France decades ago.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Though some duckbill dinosaurs could reach up to 15 meters long, experts say that Ajnabia was comparatively tiny, measuring the size of a pony at three meters.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The Carter County Museum about 70 miles away was the first facility in Montana to display dinosaurs and exhibits a nearly complete duckbill dinosaur and a full triceratops skull.
    — Seaborn Larson, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Pederson’s team wanted the third scent to mimic the dung of the duckbill dinosaur, Hadrosaurus.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 11 June 2026
  • The duckbill spoiler is also new and extends over the wheel arches, giving the car a slightly more pronounced stance.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023

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