How to Use salamander in a Sentence

salamander

noun
  • Guinea pigs, prairie mice, salamanders with bright pink spots.
    — Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
  • The lesser siren is a two-legged salamander, that looks like an eel.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2018
  • Starnes says they're sometimes confused with a batch of salamander eggs or rocks.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Learning more about them could help to save the salamanders, the researchers said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But the dam had eroded, and salamanders stopped breeding there.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Ferns, lichen and moss grow in them, and salamanders, spotted owls and bats reside in the trees.
    — Jim Robbins Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Why so much focus on the humble salamander?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
  • Learn even more about frogs, toads, caecilians, salamanders and newts!
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The large salamanders that can reach up to two feet long also fit well into the aquatic food chain.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 12 Nov. 2025
  • This tiny salamander is one of the newest (and cutest) additions.
    — Saleah Blancaflor, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The riders leaned over the pool, eyeballing the salamanders, shooting the breeze.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Critics noted the district looked a lot like a salamander.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 15 May 2026
  • That lightning rod is in the shape of a salamander, an animal once thought able to survive fire.
    — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • So the five animals were the crab, the salamander, a bat, a shark, and a jellyfish.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Lucky visitors might catch a glimpse of the few cave dwellers including bats and salamanders.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • In Roman folklore, salamanders are fabled to be able to walk through fire and come out alive.
    — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Among animals, lungfish and a group of aquatic salamanders have some of the largest genomes.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • These crossings are important when species as small as tiny salamanders to large elk and moose migrate.
    — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • There is something both vast and small in the salamander’s predicament that speaks to our own existence on this earth.
    — Jeff Vandermeer, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
  • The term gets its name from two things, Elbridge Gerry and salamanders.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
  • The salamanders were taken from the wild as eggs and brought to the Nashville Zoo to hatch and grow.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
  • Their diet mainly consists of frogs, salamanders, birds and small mammals, the group said.
    — Fox News, 11 June 2019
  • Deer, frog, salamander and bat species are just some of the wildlife reliant on Kentucky's wetlands.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2023
  • Ridge said some birds, salamanders, weasels, snakes, toads, pigs and raccoons will feed on the worms, but don’t make much difference.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2024
  • In the wild, the snakes will feed on earthworms, insects, frogs, salamanders, and toads and are harmless to humans.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The group learned about tree frogs, mole salamanders, African bullfrogs, and more during the session.
    — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Like all vertebrates, salamanders have a structure called a pallium that sits near the front of the brain.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • At high risk is the Chinese giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians in the world.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The salamanders are still squiggling commas inside them.
    — Nathan Rott, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • Giant salamanders spend much of their time hidden beneath rocks, submerged in streams or tucked under logs.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026

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