How to Use rhinoceros in a Sentence

rhinoceros

noun
  • The rhinoceros calf will stay with its mother for two to four years.
    — Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Sylvester, the zoo's sole rhinoceros hornbill, flies over to greet him.
    — Joan Meiners, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
  • One critic saw him as a rhinoceros that could almost tap-dance.
    — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The team aims to replicate this success with rhinoceros stem cells.
    — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
  • Corralling a wild rhinoceros into a small chute to give it eyedrops might seem like a crazy plan.
    — Cody Jackson, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • And all of a sudden, everyone’s a rhinoceros at the end of the play.
    — Emil Wilbekin Shikeith Ian Bradley, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In this case, of course, everybody is turning into rhinoceroses.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
  • Many people liked the rhinoceros the best, but the piranhas took the cake.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Downriver is a national park that is home to wild elephants, tigers and rhinoceroses.
    — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
  • Many of the bags also feature rhinoceroses, a frequent presence in Joans’s art.
    — Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The dig revealed the presence of reindeer, cave bears, woolly rhinoceroses and horses.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • One day, this park ranger picks up Litha and brings her along to work, intending to show the girl a live rhinoceros.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Curtin, a wildlife artist, paints pink elephants, blue rhinoceroses, standing cows and pigs adorned with jewelry and lipstick.
    — Faith E. Pinho, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • Love Dalén, one of the co-authors of the new study, holding a woolly rhinoceros horn.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Related to horses and rhinoceroses, the Malayan tapir can weigh as much as 800 pounds.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The new technique has already shaken up the family tree of ancient rhinoceroses.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The first scene in the movie shows a rhinoceros being shot with a tranquilizer gun and then having its horn sheared off.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
  • One scene in the ride shows several people who are holding on to a tree in order to escape the horn of a rhinoceros.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
  • This means Tapirs are more closely related to horses and rhinoceroses than to other large mammals.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2024
  • The Hercules beetles are a species of rhinoceros beetle, which are reared as pets in parts of Asia.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 13 June 2017
  • The bird, called the rhinoceros auklet, was gray and had a funny little horn sprouting from the base of its bill—hence its common name.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • For the first time, a rhinoceros is living at the Woodland Park Zoo.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The rhinoceros hornbill of Southeast Asia has a casque, or helmet, on its bill.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
  • Instead, researchers think one puppy’s last meal was the woolly rhinoceros.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The 30-point test includes drawings of a lion and a rhinoceros, which patients must name.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The Sumatra rhino is the smallest of the rhinoceros species and the only rhino with two horns.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The other had recently eaten a bird, which left some feathers in permafrost, as well as rhinoceros meat.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • There seemed to be meaning behind a small rhinoceros statue, a framed picture of praying hands and a bowl of Brazil nuts.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Though a woolly rhinoceros would be rather large prey for wolves to hunt, the piece of woolly rhino skin in one pup’s stomach is proof of the canids’ diet.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 June 2025
  • Another video shows Archie, 6, feeding a rhinoceros at the zoo while his red hair gleamed in the sunlight.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026

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