How to Use velociraptor in a Sentence

velociraptor

noun
  • Trump is testing those civic fences with the zeal of a velociraptor.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 June 2019
  • My heart still races when the velociraptor’s nose is pointed my way.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 31 July 2019
  • If mowing down velociraptors with machine guns sounds like your idea of a good time, keep an eye out for this one.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 7 May 2020
  • One question fans might not have thought to ask, though, was whether or not the velociraptors were the correct size.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 19 June 2018
  • People will jump on you like velociraptors.
    — Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Instead, the two-legged predator was more akin to velociraptors with sharp teeth and bony eyebrow crests.
    — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018
  • And the partial skeleton of a velociraptor hits the auction block.
    — CNN, 15 May 2022
  • In the former, the horse-sized velociraptors should actually have been the size of dogs.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 12 June 2018
  • That's like in Jurassic Park when the velociraptors figured out how to open doors.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Anzu wyliei was a 600-pound cross between an ostrich and a velociraptor.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
  • However, the velociraptor would not have crossed paths with either.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2022
  • This was no time to prioritize the future, to spurn the bird in hand and chase the velociraptor in the distance.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • Could an exploding volcano spell extinction all over again for the velociraptors and their friends?
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2018
  • First a Tyrannosaurus rex appeared on the table, followed by a velociraptor and a stegosaurus.
    — Kate Elizabeth Queram, Howard County Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Humans have to help the two velociraptor robots at the check-in desk when foreign guests arrive by making copies of their passports.
    — Takashi Mochizuki, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
  • The velociraptor in the fossil below didn't fare too well either after eating a pterosaur, which was likely its last meal.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2012
  • The track is about a lonely velociraptor, an outcast going through extinction.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Owen, Claire, and an older Maisie have been taking care of a mama velociraptor and her offspring.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Pratt starred as Owen Grady, a Navy veteran and velociraptor handler at the theme park.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Take note, however, that the animal depicted by the artist in this remake is not a velociraptor.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Just keep repeating those steps until the position of the velociraptor is the same as the position as the human.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2015
  • For Dern, that means recalling the preparation that went into her intense velociraptor chase scene.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 12 May 2022
  • In addition to massive funding in two Kickstarter campaigns, the game sold through its first print run in retail at the pace of a striking velociraptor.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, what is portrayed as a velociraptor in the film, and in the original book by Michael Crichton, is not a velociraptor.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2022
  • The Tyrannosaurus rex’s small eyes were most adapted for activity during the day, while the velociraptor’s mid-sized eyes would have worked best during twilight hours.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • For instance, oviraptorosaurs are theropod dinosaurs that evolved from meat-eaters similar to Tyrannosaurus rex and the velociraptor.
    — Zhao Chuang, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2016
  • As Klepper strolls around, confederate flags fly and there’s one that features Trump riding a velociraptor while shooting a machine gun.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Therapods were carnivorous dinosaurs with small forelimbs that walked on two feet, like other creatures in that group such as the Tyrannosaurus rex and the velociraptor.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2021
  • In one study, scientists at Yale and Harvard were actually able to alter chicken embryos to grow the snouts of velociraptors rather than beaks.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019

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