REPTILE in a Sentence

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For REPTILE, below is one of 13 sentences:
The long slender flattened skull beneath the long pointed cap brought before Stephen's mind the image of a hooded reptile.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPTILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reptile
 n.  cold-blooded vertebrate including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles
Classic Sentence:
1  Besides, it would much subtract from the glory of the exploit had St. George but encountered a crawling reptile of the land, instead of doing battle with the great monster of the deep.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
2  The Alabama doctors declared it a huge reptile, and bestowed upon it the name of Basilosaurus.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
3  But some specimen bones of it being taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned out that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed species.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
4  I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  The long slender flattened skull beneath the long pointed cap brought before Stephen's mind the image of a hooded reptile.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  There was an occasional flash and glimmer of steel from the backs of all these huge crawling reptiles.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  The majority of reptile species are egg-laying although certain species of squamates are capable of giving live birth.
2  These remains of a pterodactyl indicate that the flying reptile had a wingspan of as much as twenty feet.
3  I'm not sure which is more implausible, the notion that people would ever get blasé about a 40-foot-high, formerly extinct reptile or that a theme park would try to boost its revenue in such a wildly risky way.
4  The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
5  It is not easy to watch that young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch.
6  They suggest the sensitive spots play a major part in the aquatic reptiles' impressive reaction times and perform some of the tactile functions of human hands.
7  All reptiles have to slough their skin to grow.