How to Use rhinoceros in a Sentence

rhinoceros

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  • A rhinoceros broke free and charged a group of young girls, killing one.
    — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • And all of a sudden, everyone’s a rhinoceros at the end of the play.
    — Emil Wilbekin Shikeith Ian Bradley, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Related to horses and rhinoceroses, the Malayan tapir can weigh as much as 800 pounds.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The rhinoceros calf will stay with its mother for two to four years.
    — Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • For the first time, a rhinoceros is living at the Woodland Park Zoo.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The rhinoceros calf, born on Christmas Eve, will be named through a Sweet 16 bracket, the zoo said.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Between the zoo's six elephants, five rhinoceroses and three bantengs, the zoo collects more than 2,000 pounds of dung per day.
    — Carli Teproff, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
  • The Sumatra rhino is the smallest of the rhinoceros species and the only rhino with two horns.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The Hercules beetles are a species of rhinoceros beetle, which are reared as pets in parts of Asia.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 13 June 2017
  • The West African black rhino was one of four subspecies of rhinoceros.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The dig revealed the presence of reindeer, cave bears, woolly rhinoceroses and horses.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • With the new arrival, the number of rhinoceroses at the zoo rose to five, including male Spike and females Mambo and Gloria.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The new arrival brings the number of rhinoceroses at the zoo to five, including male Spike and females Mambo and Gloria.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Xola and mama Zenzele have been indoors since her Feb. 11 birth, the first live birth of a rhinoceros at the zoo.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The dewback was a puppet made from the body of a stuffed rhinoceros, fitted with a reptilian head and tail.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The team aims to replicate this success with rhinoceros stem cells.
    — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
  • The rhinoceros hornbill of Southeast Asia has a casque, or helmet, on its bill.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
  • One scene in the ride shows several people who are holding on to a tree in order to escape the horn of a rhinoceros.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
  • First, researchers in South Africa had to build a large database of genetic samples drawn from African rhinoceroses.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The first scene in the movie shows a rhinoceros being shot with a tranquilizer gun and then having its horn sheared off.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The 30-point test includes drawings of a lion and a rhinoceros, which patients must name.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The Sumatran rhinoceros has become extinct in Malaysia, after the last of the species in the country succumbed to cancer.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Curtin, a wildlife artist, paints pink elephants, blue rhinoceroses, standing cows and pigs adorned with jewelry and lipstick.
    — Faith E. Pinho, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • Downriver is a national park that is home to wild elephants, tigers and rhinoceroses.
    — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
  • So if modern humans didn’t cut up the rhinoceros, who did?
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
  • Unfortunately, that egg, a large, hairy oval, is in a hole that's also the home of a large, hairy cross between a bull and a rhinoceros.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
  • There are only five species of rhinoceros left in the world, and the Providence Zoo is out to help save them, according to their website.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • There seemed to be meaning behind a small rhinoceros statue, a framed picture of praying hands and a bowl of Brazil nuts.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2020
  • One critic saw him as a rhinoceros that could almost tap-dance.
    — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Rhino Piercing Origin Despite the resemblance to a rhinoceros horn, Pearce says the piercing and its name have little to do with the animal.
    — Annie Blay, Allure, 10 July 2024

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