How to Use triceratops in a Sentence

triceratops

noun
  • The triceratops is known for its three horns on the head.
    — NBC News, 2021-10-21
  • One sleeps with a stuffed triceratops, the other with a plush T. rex.
    — Rachel Walker, idahostatesman, 2017-05-12
  • In one, a tiny triceratops grew to lifesize before the board members' eyes.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2022-05-23
  • An ill triceratops turns out to have eaten a poisonous plant that no one on the park staff thought twice about planting.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2021-04-08
  • The three-year-old can build three lovable dinosaurs — a T-rex, triceratops, and stegosaurus — with this kit.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 2022-08-18
  • No doubt that a triceratops would be quite the asset on the football field, but its hard to 'beat' our Giant Heart.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 2018-02-01
  • This leaf fell off a tree around the time that T-rex and triceratops roamed prehistoric forests, but the plant is instantly recognizable.
    — Christina Larson, ajc, 2021-08-24
  • On the flight line perches a crazy-looking twin-fuselaged aircraft cradling a spaceship — the three sharp noses call to mind its nickname: Triceratops.
    — Carl Hoffman, WIRED, 2009-11-15
  • For some moments of genuine serenity, hop behind the wheel of a ranger mobile and drive through herds of triceratops grazing out in the wilderness of Washington state.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 2021-12-30
  • In 2017, a fossilized triceratops skull was found at a construction site in Thornton, Colorado.
    — Fox News, 2019-06-25
  • There's also a brief cameo by Trevorrow's son, who also popped up in the beginning of the original Jurassic World as the kid riding a triceratops.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 2021-06-10
  • Interspersed amid this whimsical woodland are several large-scale dinosaur statues, including a Tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 2022-07-28
  • The team was following up after alumni, students and Schmidt uncovered the tip of a triceratops horn last summer — which a local rancher had originally found poking out of the earth.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 2020-08-26
  • According to auctioneers Binoche et Giquello, Big John is the world’s largest triceratops and stretches a whopping 26 feet from tip to tail.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2021-09-01
  • Two married couples do nocturnal battle over enough hard liquor to kill a triceratops in Edward Albee’s unhinged 1962 classic, the drawing-room play to end all drawing-room plays.
    — Chicago Reader, 2017-08-10
  • In 2017, horned dinosaur fossils were uncovered at Thornton, a Denver construction site, and were revealed to belong to a triceratops relative, the torosaurus.
    — Erin Davis and Brian Ries, CNN, 2019-06-21
  • Families can interact with animatronic dinos including herrerasaurus, amargasaurus, iguanodon, neovenator, oviraptor, protoceratops, velociraptor, hadrosaur, leallynasaura, minmi, Spinosaurus, triceratops and the ever-popular Tyrannosaurus rex.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 2021-04-13

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