How to Use newt in a Sentence

newt

noun
  • There was no bubbling cauldron or eye of newt or toe of frog involved.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Or, at the very least, heal up like a limb-regenerating newt.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The newt grinned, retracting his poisonous spines into his skin.
    — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020
  • When a newt is spotted, brigaders work quickly to photograph it and record its location.
    — Annie Roth Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The little brown newt slithered its way across the muddy trail, making a morning trek back from the shallows of the lake.
    — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2022
  • There is a dwarf who wears a gold ring as a belt; a newt who may or may not be named Reddy; a girl in tap shoes who bakes a chicken.
    — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • In response, the Iberian ribbed newt arched his back and tucked his head into his chest—sharp, spiny ribs coated in poison burst through his skin.
    — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The menu is refreshingly basic—no crazy ingredients or tinctures, no eye of newt.
    — Andrea Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The next road-crosser that night was a juvenile eastern newt, the length of a finger and luminously orange under headlamps.
    — Brandon Keim, New York Times, 18 May 2020
  • The Pacific newt is populous in this part of the state, but high roadkill rates abound in the North and South Bay.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Snakes and Newts The garter snake has long seen newts as a food source, and the newt has long seen the garter snake as a worthy recipient of its deadly toxin.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Up the road, a monitor lizard, a creature more crocodile than newt, lumbered across the tarmac, with little traffic to impede its crossing.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Wrapped around the silly storytelling is a score that may not include a signature tune but happily does not stem the momentum of a show that is already a few eye of newt too long.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The Chinese fire belly newt (Cynops orientalis) lives up to its name with a vivid pattern of biofluorescence on its underside.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Adam Dublinske, a 20-year-old from Milford, Iowa, and other Marines joined the biologists’ efforts to watch for newts.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Unlike the long, narrowing tails of land-living dinosaurs, Spinosaurus’ rearmost appendage seemed built to whip back and forth like that of a crocodile or a newt—a theory that seemed borne out when the researchers modeled its motion in a water tank.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020

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