How to Use dinosaur in a Sentence

dinosaur

noun
  • The old factory is now a rusting dinosaur.
  • The character she plays is a dinosaur—a former beauty queen who is living in the past.
  • What is the best dinosaur toy to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • What’s not to love about dinosaurs?
    — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And this show isn’t just great for dinosaur lovers.
    — Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 6 Mar. 2026
  • If your kid loves dinosaurs, this toy is a must-have.
    — Anja Webb, Parents, 24 June 2026
  • Did dinosaur blood run cold, like a lizard, or warm, like a bird?
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022
  • His body looks more and more like the fossil of a dinosaur.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Could some of these eggs have belonged to dinosaurs?
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Archie was a dinosaur for maybe five minutes.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Later in the song, a nest of dinosaur eggs is ready to hatch.
    — Parents, 5 June 2026
  • The one that looks like the head of a parasaurolophus dinosaur.
    — Sanjena Sathian, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
  • So why have none of them reached the size of the biggest dinosaurs?
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 May 2025
  • This dinosaur still had dinner in its mouth!
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
  • But the island is filled with dinosaurs!
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 10 June 2026
  • But those people die off like dinosaurs.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • As big as this dinosaur was, sauropods were about to get a lot bigger.
    — James Doubek, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • Children still play with toy cars, trains, dinosaurs or dolls.
    — Mark Thirlwell, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Apart from agate hunters and dinosaur buffs, few outsiders came through.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But, hey, weren’t these movies supposed to be about dinosaurs?
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 July 2025
  • This species was a plant eater, but other dinosaurs were meat eaters or ate both.
    — Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • Like tree trunks, dinosaur bones have rings that show how the creatures grew and aged.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Rex, the green dinosaur toy exclaims.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Rafa smiles and picks up another dinosaur by its tail.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Researchers named the dinosaur based on the makeup of its body.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 8 Dec. 2021
  • It's also called dinosaur kale.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But that dinosaur surely had a way with words, and his legacy now is mine.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Experts said the dinosaurs may have laid eggs there because of the warm ground.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The film set was damaged but no dinosaurs were injured.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For most children, the age of the dinosaur straddles years four and five.
    — Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026

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