LIZARD in a Sentence

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For LIZARD, below is one of 13 sentences:
I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIZARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lizard
 n.  relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
 n.  a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
Classic Sentence:
1  I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  That tall, harsh-looking man is very learned, he discovered, in the neighborhood of Rome, a kind of lizard with a vertebra more than lizards usually have, and he immediately laid his discovery before the Institute.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 70. The Ball.
4  You'd expect her to learn by and by that I won't be a parlor lizard.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard is a pocket crocodile.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
6  At every step that Edmond took he disturbed the lizards glittering with the hues of the emerald; afar off he saw the wild goats bounding from crag to crag.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
7  This guide was our friend Peppino, who dashed into the thicket of high weeds, through a path which none but lizards or polecats could have imagined to be an open road.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
8  When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come thither.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
Example Sentence:
1  Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms.
2  Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard.
3  Whom an adder bites, dreads a lizard.
4  The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
5  The number of products recalled from the shops is very high, with angry reporting from dead flies in tomato juice to a lizard in a bag of potato chips.