How to Use reptilian in a Sentence

reptilian

1 of 2 adjective
  • The high heel and horsebit combo could also be found as part of a glossy reptilian knee-high boot.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The glint of a reptilian eye came from a grove of Australian pine below.
    — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Painted wide across the front of the truck and its open doors was a menacing, reptilian smile.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And that's the last mention of the Targaryens and their beloved reptilian beasts.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 May 2019
  • Like aging copper, the Yarrow’s spiny lizard’s reptilian skin fades from gold to bluish-green.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The back of the shoe then shifts to a reptilian texture with croc embossing throughout the rear.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The surface darkens on one side, almost like a cropped view of the moon, or a patch of slightly reptilian skin.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Will Ariana or Miley show up with a reptilian pet of their own?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The reptilian patients spend anywhere between three to eight weeks in rehab until their shells have healed.
    — Scottie Andrew and Nadeem Muaddi, CNN, 29 June 2019
  • In nature, the three transform into swift reptilian beasts who romp and belt out improvised songs.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Younger reptile enthusiasts can also try their hand at some reptilian arts and crafts.
    — Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, sacbee, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Horse’s manes and reptilian scales are among other details that helped inform her overall design.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The look is complete with eye-like spots, faux reptilian scales, and a convincing, serpentine curve.
    — National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Perhaps even more unsettling is the lizard fish, so named for the distinctly reptilian cast of its features.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2017
  • Now the Opera is getting the reptilian treatment with an earthy brown colorway and a green option.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Still, others are little sheriff’s hats for the reptilian lawman — er, law-dragon.
    — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
  • Porkchop earned her 15 minutes of reptilian fame by becoming the first turtle to swim in the tank.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The actor's dramatic weight loss for the role gives him an emaciated, reptilian look.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The fastback-ish rear is covered with 33 moving reptilian-scale panels.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The platypus is an Australian mammal with some weirdly reptilian traits, like egg laying.
    — National Geographic, 30 July 2016
  • Cinching the shirt was a thick brown belt featuring reptilian detailing and a large rounded buckle.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 18 June 2026
  • Here are even more reasons why the reptilian rocker is McCartney.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 15 May 2020
  • The straplike, bright green leaves (called fronds on ferns) have a decidedly reptilian, scaly look that doesn't align with what most people picture as a fern.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Mongeau paired her reptilian date with a snakeskin minidress and matching thigh-high boots, accessorized with tiny red sunglasses.
    — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The dawn of Taylor Swift's next era appears to be upon us, if a slew of reptilian teasers released this week are to be believed.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2017
  • This time, the two friends must discover a reptilian mystery that threatens to turn the animal haven of Zootopia upside down.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Her shoes put a twist on the enduring style with a metallic finish and a subtle reptilian pattern, merging several footwear trends in one.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 28 June 2026
  • Among the entries from previous contests, now collected in a museum on the island, was a pair of reptilian high heels bristling with rows of teeth.
    — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Some of Swift's Australian fans also got reptilian ink ahead of the musician's arrival in the country.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The human Chance seemed to approve, and retweeted pictures and articles of his reptilian namesake.
    — Time, 16 July 2019

reptilian

2 of 2 noun
  • Sort of reptilian yet kind of fishy, with a mouth of fangs that splits open four-ways like an origami fortune teller.
    — Matt Prigge, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2017
  • These include mammals, sharks and other fish, and non-dinosaur reptilians.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2023
  • One of the tegu’s fellow reptilian invaders, the Burmese python, has been called a poster-child for invasive species.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2018
  • There were also parrots, doves and beehives, as well as village dogs and lean reptilian chickens resting in the shade.
    — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
  • There were also parrots, doves and beehives, as well as village dogs and lean reptilian chickens resting in the shade.
    — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Within minutes, the huge coat was whisked away — revealing a reptilian bodysuit covered in head-to-toe scales.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The mics can’t handle it… When a woman does it, guys’ reptilian brains go, ‘Mama’s mad at me’ or something.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The CrystaLynx Dragons pull apart to mix and match and create new types of reptilians.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • They’ve long been considered the only living mammals with these reptilian and fish-like suits of bony or scaly armor instead of hairy mammalian skin.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
  • Integrate the year of the snake into your interior design with these reptilian hooks with an antique brass finish.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
  • Moreover, a press release adds that the area is currently occupied by reptilians, meaning an even higher level of risk.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
  • It was filled with two-page illustrations of long necks and sweeping ochre landscapes, with clever reptilian faces and sinuous tails, orange and green and flecked in black.
    — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Fossils of smaller species were not only rare, but also often overlooked in favor of reptilian showstoppers.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The fossil’s blend of bird-like and reptilian features transformed the debate from speculation to direct evidence.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Anthony Lent’s ring is a lifelike reptilian treasure, etched with scales and accented with crystal clear diamond eyes.
    — Jennifer Jenkins, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In April, she was photographed filming in brown reptilian boots resembling Paris Texas’ Anja style.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 9 June 2025
  • Kids are fascinated by these ancient reptilian creatures, and CoComelon taps into that in this song.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 30 May 2025
  • Social media has been flooded with images of frozen iguanas falling from trees, as their cold-blooded reptilian systems struggle to generate body heat and cope with the cold temperatures.
    — Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2025
  • This speedy growth may have played a role in the success that dinosaurs and pterosaurs enjoyed toward the end of the Triassic, when so many species with more typical reptilian bone structure became extinct.
    — Kevin Padian, Scientific American, 1 May 2014
  • Like Medusa — the snake-haired goddess of Greek mythology — brushing her reptilian locks, the mass of red-sided garter snakes would slither a foot or two up the side of the pit before sliding back to the bottom.
    — Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 18 June 2017
  • However, the bathroom was reportedly flooded by the reptilian visitor.
    — Michael Nied, People.com, 30 July 2025
  • For the first century of dinosaur science, paleontologists imagined titanosaurs as giant, overgrown reptiles – and used reptilian growth rates to predict their milestones.
    — Kristi Curry Rogers, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
  • So while at least part of the reptilian DVR was adapted from the brain region of an ancestral creature, the mammalian neocortex evolved as a new brain region burgeoning with novel cell types.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Laurent’s team also found a claustrum in a distant reptilian relative, the Trachemys scripta turtle, leading the researchers to conclude that the brain region predates the evolution of reptiles.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The terrifying reptilian aliens from Season 1, the Gorn, return with a vengeance, decimating a brand new human colony that the Gorn believe falls within their territory.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
  • What’s clear is that the victims of climate change, reptilian and otherwise, will increase dramatically in coming years if world leaders keep failing to adequately rein in greenhouse gas emissions, which mostly come from burning fossil fuels.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The redoubtable reptilian mascot, which made its debut in 1999, was conceived by the Martin Agency to both reinforce Geico’s name and help the public figure out how to pronounce it.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • But understanding the evolution of these scaly vertebrates depends on what paleontologists unearth in the fossil record, and the diversity of the earliest reptilian animals is still a knowledge gap researchers are trying to fill.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Sweet Gizmo, as Billy (Zach Galligan) names his new pet, accidentally produces a handful of fellow mogwai who quickly become weaponized as slimy, semi-reptilian creatures with rheumy eyes.
    — Tim Carman, Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Monday’s outing in Stella McCartney boots, however, showed the power of subtly mixing patterns, as her boots served as an unexpected yet complementary reptilian accent to her latest plaid moment.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025

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