How to Use brontosaurus in a Sentence

brontosaurus

noun
  • Yale’s brontosaurus is a historic one — the first ever discovered.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Two full-figured men snacking on brontosaurus burgers, married to women with waists that are the same size as their necks.
    — Katie Musgrave, refinery29.com, 20 May 2020
  • On one side, there’s a T-rex that is 30 feet tall, on the other side is a brontosaurus that is 39 feet tall.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Their bestselling Freel Shorts, which come in pineapple, cactus, or brontosaurus prints, have nearly sold out.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 17 May 2018
  • An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 16 Mar. 2020
  • This cute dino backpack features brontosauruses, stegosauruses, and more.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 June 2024
  • The group with reptile-like hips is called Saurischia (saw-RIS’-kee-a), and includes the brontosaurus.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
  • For years after the park closed, the skeleton of the Big Plunge towered over I-25 like the neck of a brontosaurus.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The much, much larger modern incarnations of Godzilla and Kong wouldn’t even register the brontosaurus.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • As the glaciers crawl south, refugees, a chilly mammoth, and that lifelike brontosaurus take shelter in their Excelsior, New Jersey, living room.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Trip skids across the floor at Hinkle Fieldhouse before games, finding his brontosaurus-sized bone and standing with it in front of the Butler bench seconds before tipoff.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Its sprawling brontosaurus of a headquarters building sits just inside Route 128 in Needham, mostly empty on most days.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • On one hill at a site called Humaca, 11 juvenile sauropods (relatives of the enormous dino commonly known as a brontosaurus) appear to be moving in tandem.
    — Amy Barth, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2010
  • In one scene, the Doctor and Ruby find themselves in the prehistoric era overlooking a lush valley of vegetation, while a brontosaurus and other dinosaurs graze.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Giant brontosauruses, velociraptors, and multiple tyrannosaurus can be seen outside on the business' 8 acres and within its giant facility.
    — Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
  • His sweeping theme for Jurassic Park accompanies the first view of a herd of brontosauruses, matching the wide-eyed wonder of Sam Neill and Laura Dern beat for beat.
    — Alex Galbraith, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Different footprints had been found three years earlier, ones that date back 170 million years and survived as evidence of giant sauropods–likely ancestors of the later brontosaurus–that would wander through the isle's lagoons.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 3 Apr. 2018
  • However, special considerations must be made for a brontosaurus who trashes London in the climax of the 1925 silent film The Lost World.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Minds of Their Own A design, like the silhouette of a brontosaurus, is input into a computer and the robots immediately start positioning themselves and changing color to recreate that image in physical form.
    — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 9 May 2014
  • There are film posters for the original King Kong and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but notably, apart from a model of a brontosaurus and a fedora, there’s virtually nothing in the way of personal movie memorabilia.
    — Darryn King, Vanity Fair, 19 May 2026
  • Arguably the first-ever cinematic kaiju, The Lost World’s brontosaurus is deserving of mention in any list of giant monsters for its historical stature, regardless of how tall the dino actually was compared to some of the other kaiju on this list.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The latest attraction at the Volo Auto Museum is not a car — but a dinosaur, actually dozens of animatronic dinosaurs including a 30-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex and a 35-foot tall brontosaurus.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2021

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