How to Use troglodyte in a Sentence

troglodyte

noun
  • Of course, the gesture was not made without the troglodytes crawling up from the dark, dank holes.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Set foot inside the amazing cave dwellings known as troglodyte homes—charming houses built in and around cliff-side caverns.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Among the highlights is a chance to set foot on the coral island of Rurutu, with troglodyte caves and hiking routes.
    — Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Mark is a low-key troglodyte; Paula is outspokenly progressive.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The 57-year-old Díaz-Canel sounds like, and acts, like another geriatric troglodyte.
    — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Anyone who questioned its pandemic policies was branded a sociopath and a troglodyte.
    — Gabrielle Bauer, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The obvious solution is to convince your voters not to nominate troglodytes.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The troglodytes and the unhappy housewives and the shallow, pedantic millennials will start to glow and shimmer.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Pan troglodytes, to use the scientific name for chimps, is one of our closest evolutionary ancestors.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Every troglodyte pushing baby-step solutions to a Biblical flood.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • So far this year, the carlike Toyota Highlander is outselling its troglodyte sibling, the 4Runner, at a rate of about two to one.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 16 Dec. 2021
  • To troglodytes like me, the writing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights was perhaps the greatest cause of the nation.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
  • In tourist centers like Alcalá del Júcar, visitors flock to see medieval troglodyte caves, some of which have now been turned into bars and restaurants.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • Writing critics off as a gang of right-wing troglodytes, the standard tactic of many of Pope Francis’s defenders, is not just derisive and condescending.
    — Francis X. Maier, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Over three years later, when Hartman returned to host SNL during season 21, the corrupt troglodyte was revived for a final time.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Wobber’s study looked at the physiological changes in hormones circulating in the body in two of the closest relatives of humans, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus).
    — Brian_mossop, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2010
  • And if a Warren candidacy — or anyone else’s — ensures that Democrats will spend another four years accusing half the country of being moral troglodytes while waiting for demographics to win them elections, Republicans should support their efforts.
    — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Now Gove’s remark became the source of the ashen taste in the mouths of Remoaner metropolitan elites bewailing how provincial troglodytes, geriatrics, and Little Englanders had dashed their rationalist, internationalist dreams.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025

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