How to Use triceratops in a Sentence

triceratops

noun
  • In one, a tiny triceratops grew to lifesize before the board members' eyes.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 May 2022
  • An ill triceratops turns out to have eaten a poisonous plant that no one on the park staff thought twice about planting.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The three-year-old can build three lovable dinosaurs — a T-rex, triceratops, and stegosaurus — with this kit.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022
  • No doubt that a triceratops would be quite the asset on the football field, but its hard to 'beat' our Giant Heart.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • This leaf fell off a tree around the time that T-rex and triceratops roamed prehistoric forests, but the plant is instantly recognizable.
    — Christina Larson, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
  • For some moments of genuine serenity, hop behind the wheel of a ranger mobile and drive through herds of triceratops grazing out in the wilderness of Washington state.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Anys, now in a triceratops costume, had created an engine of amusement, in which each kill brought her closer to winning while simultaneously making her cringe.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
  • There's also a brief cameo by Trevorrow's son, who also popped up in the beginning of the original Jurassic World as the kid riding a triceratops.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 10 June 2021
  • Interspersed amid this whimsical woodland are several large-scale dinosaur statues, including a Tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • The team was following up after alumni, students and Schmidt uncovered the tip of a triceratops horn last summer — which a local rancher had originally found poking out of the earth.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
  • According to auctioneers Binoche et Giquello, Big John is the world’s largest triceratops and stretches a whopping 26 feet from tip to tail.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Two married couples do nocturnal battle over enough hard liquor to kill a triceratops in Edward Albee’s unhinged 1962 classic, the drawing-room play to end all drawing-room plays.
    — Chicago Reader, 10 Aug. 2017
  • However, Big John does bear the wounds of a difficult life, with a laceration in his collar from an altercation with a smaller triceratops, which the auctioneers said was due to territorial defense or courtship of a mate.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Families can interact with animatronic dinos including herrerasaurus, amargasaurus, iguanodon, neovenator, oviraptor, protoceratops, velociraptor, hadrosaur, leallynasaura, minmi, Spinosaurus, triceratops and the ever-popular Tyrannosaurus rex.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2021

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