How to Use lizard in a Sentence

lizard

noun
  • The lizards are losing ground fast.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Because my mom doesn't like lizards.
    — Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Both lizards are doing their best to change minds and hearts.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • There were even marks showing where the lizard dragged its feet.
    — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The size of a small child, tegu lizards can grow up to 4 feet in length.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018
  • As the days get warmer, lizards and common adders come out, too.
    — Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Did dinosaur blood run cold, like a lizard, or warm, like a bird?
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022
  • One of the workers pulls the lizard out of the drain by its tail, a video shows.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
  • And did the lizards have a preferred topping?
    — ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • These chilly conditions can cause a cold shock in the lizards.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2026
  • All the lizards that had had access to sand pits swam in them at least ten times each.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Each lizard was kept without food in a plastic cage for three days.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • There are hundreds of legless lizard species found around the world.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Faraday is an alien in a new land, a lizard in a human skin suit.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Your daughters left you and your wife a zoo of pets from birds, lizards, cats and dogs.
    — Alex Distefano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But save most of them for your lizard-loving friends and neighbors.
    — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The lizards look olive green or black, with cream or yellow stripes on their jaws and heads.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • And that reservoir is the key to the lizard’s most famous trick.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Some species of lizards, on the other hand, can go a little longer.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The jaw, however, wasn’t lizard-like at all.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That’s why a plastic lizard is a great choice in spring, when bass are spawning.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The lizard runs from the bird until reaching a body of water.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
  • How did the lizards get to Florida?
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The little dino grabbed a lizard and swallowed it whole, head first.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
  • As soon as a cold wind blew in, the lizards burrowed underground to lay eggs.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
  • They also till the earth to search for prey like rodents, insects and lizards.
    — Patty Khuly, miamiherald, 17 Aug. 2017
  • When an unsuspecting lizard takes the bait, the death adder strikes.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The handlers dragged the lizard out of the store and lured it towards a nearby brush.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The lizard brain is always running in the background, ready for fight or flight.
    — Elio Morillo, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
  • The iguanas featured in the makeshift blanket are cold-stunned lizards.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026

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