How to Use stegosaurus in a Sentence

stegosaurus

noun
  • The oven that cooks the tortillas is about the size of a teenage stegosaurus.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2021
  • One landmark along the way is what some hikers have dubbed the stegosaurus.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The tent pictures t-rex, stegosaurus, and triceratops along with pterodactyls on the rooftop.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Nestled among the wilderness and trees of Bastrop, a stegosaurus chomps on a branch.
    — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Here, a line of rocks, each the size of a big-man recliner, looks like the back of a stegosaurus dinosaur.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The folds of rock turn vertical, knifelike, a stegosaurus spine of giant sandstone plates.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The father saw the body through a crack in the stegosaurus' hollow leg and alerted the authorities.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 May 2021
  • British scientists have discoverd a new species of stegosaurus that's believed to be the oldest of its kind ever found.
    — Fox News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Expect to see Blue the Raptor, a stegosaurus, triceratops and a T-rex.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Another has a line of smooth, hard, upward-reaching sails along its center, arranged like the plates of a stegosaurus.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • Finally, below is another cool still from the trailer of also not a stegosaurus.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
  • About 85 million years after this stegosaurus fossilized, the last dinosaurs went extinct.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The back end, including its tail weapon, seemed similar to a stegosaurus, so the researchers named it stegouros elengassen.
    — Fox News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • First a Tyrannosaurus rex appeared on the table, followed by a velociraptor and a stegosaurus.
    — Kate Elizabeth Queram, Howard County Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The team is free to accompany field guides and visit the neighboring nunataks, the mountain ridges that emerge from the ice like bony plates on a stegosaurus' back.
    — Serena Coady, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The park will bring a new stegosaurus fossil cast to its museum around the same time, the Daily Record reported.
    — Derek Hawkins, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • This cute dino backpack features brontosauruses, stegosauruses, and more.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 June 2024
  • Pelkey said the most popular choices this year are bumblebee, cow, lion, hot dog, pumpkin, granny, stegosaurus and banana split.
    — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
  • And another tiny stegosaurus turned up last year inside Steggie, the museum's iconic statue.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 25 May 2017
  • There were stegosauruses, apatosauruses, a T-rex, but the parasaurolophus, in all its weird glory, was always my favorite.
    — Katherine Clover, The Cut, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Have up-close encounters with a life-like stegosaurus, velociraptor and a T-Rex in a walk-through exhibit.
    — Oc Disney Staff, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
  • And, for a while, many believed that the bipedal form of these dinosaurs was lost in favor of the much larger and lumbering four-footed tanks like the stegosaurus and ankylosaurs.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Aug. 2022
  • As for how Apex earned its name, Sotheby's says its considered the largest and most complete stegosaurus ever discovered.
    — Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 31 May 2024
  • Babies, not to say bad boys, would fall asleep back there, their nodding heads tipped over by the great weight of baby helmets covered in the spikes of a stegosaurus, poking into my back.
    — The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • And then protruding out from that flat strip are two parallel ruffles that are perpendicular, sticking up from the flat strip, almost like stegosaurus’ spine.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This part of the valley offers amazing hiking at Mills Mansion; the trails hang above the Hudson and are ridged with rocks like a stegosaurus's back.
    — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
  • A touch of the stegosaurus card, for example, summons up a report on drones being used to map dinosaur footprints in locations too remote for scientists to reach.
    — William Grimes, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Within a matter of moments, the two of them were fighting each other in the city room like a stegosaurus and a brontosaurus in some sort of Jurassic Park scenario.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Kids and young-at-heart dinosaur lovers of all ages will appreciate seeing the life-sized models of a triceratops, stegosaurus, and T-Rex, among other species.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
  • My nephew lasts a surprising hour in the actual exhibit, though his favorite dino is a blow-up stegosaurus in a Santa hat in the holiday display.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 10 Jan. 2024

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