reptilian

How To Use reptilian In A Sentence

• Two ugly reptilian little nestlings and an unhatched egg that was probably still a goer. Times, Sunday Times
• We retain reptilian reflexes deep in our minds (fight or flight) while the more complex structuring of knowledge (how to do statistics) is layered over those primitive networks. Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives
• The reptilian monstrosity shook off the vines with total ease, body curled up beneath the neck, and tail stretched out behind it, rattling noisily.
• Figure 16 pictures a three-headed reptilian bird chasing a hunter who is armed with a gun.
• Judge Dave Ryan is also a friend to children; however, he can't fly, and he lacks a hard, reptilian protective shell.
• Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
• In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies. Mike Malloy: Poison
• This reptilian monster has various forms in its plastic representations, according to the style of each region; it can appear as a bicephalous dragon or a 2-headed plumed serpent; and also as a bird with serpent features.
• So, on the other hand, this ichthyoid, reptilian, or monochondyloid ideal of the self-made man can only be reached, universally, by a nation which holds that poverty, either of purse or spirit, -- but especially the spiritual character of being [Greek: ptôchoi tô pneumati], -- is the lowest of degradations; and which believes that the desire of wealth is the first of manly and moral sentiments. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
• Chromoviral distribution has been analyzed in 15 reptilian species, including representatives of crocodiles, turtles, and squamates.