How to Use tyrannosaur in a Sentence

tyrannosaur

noun
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  • Grown up, a tyrannosaur ran to three tons in weight and would stretch out for 30 feet.
    — Lockheed Martin, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2020
  • There didn’t seem to be any tyrannosaurs from rocks of similar age to the north.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The question now is how the likes of the horned dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus and the tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus survived the cold and dark months.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
  • Not All Fun and Games Then there’s the tyrannosaur whose rival broke a tooth off inside its jaw.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • That contrasts with the range of the later T. rex which was the lone tyrannosaur from Canada to the southwestern U.S. by 68 million years ago.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
  • That giant glowing doughnut, fastened to the tyrannosaur’s puny arms to promote a new Kane’s shop at the site?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2019
  • This led to the development of the Yutyrannus, a 30-foot-long tyrannosaur.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Scaled to tyrannosaur size, that honk becomes a bass-baritone mega war trumpet.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The tooth of a small tyrannosaur, the first evidence of a distant T. rex relative in Maryland.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
  • Our cover story this month, from editor Eric Betz, takes you through the new world of the tyrannosaurs.
    — Discover Magazine, 16 June 2019
  • The tyrannosaur, for instance, will shed light how T. rex went from hatchling to hulking predator.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • One, named Jane, is a nearly complete tyrannosaur fossil that’s about 21 feet long.
    — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The findings suggest tyrannosaurs originated and evolved in the area, the study authors write.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Imagine a tyrannosaur striding through the snow, leaving three-toed footprints in the powder as flurries fall on the fuzz along the dinosaur’s back.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • What about the Appalachiosaurus, an Alabama tyrannosaur that was a distant cousin of the very famous T-rex?
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Titus noticed what turned out to be a tyrannosaur ankle bone protruding from the ground.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Lunch date: Being an apex predator doesn’t mean that the tyrannosaurs were only hunting down and eating live prey.
    — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Zelenitzky said Ulughbegsaurus would have shared the ecosystem with a small species of tyrannosaur called Timurlengia.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The co-occurrence of Ulughbegsaurus and the little tyrannosaur Timurlengia fits this same pattern.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The details of a small tyrannosaur from this era, discovered in Utah, were published earlier this year.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
  • If the tyrannosaur misses and the prey takes flight, or if the tyrannosaur is spotted before this critical moment, the hunt ends and the great carnivore moves off.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
  • His first question was whether the gashes were the work of some prehistoric giant crocodile or a tyrannosaur.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • Patrons dig up fossils, ride on the back of a tyrannosaur, and explore dinosaur science stations, to learn more about these creatures.
    — Matthew Cox, Cincinnati.com, 13 Mar. 2020
  • This finding is based on the discovery of a handful of tyrannosaur skeletons found in the same location in a lakebed where the animals are presumed to have drowned.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The dinosaur was later determined to be a juvenile, about 23 feet long, and a member of the tyrannosaur family.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Introducing the first new species of tyrannosaur discovered in Canada in 50 years.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2020
  • At about 30 feet long, Ulughbegsaurus was far larger than the tyrannosaur in its same habitat and was more closely related to dinosaurs like Allosaurus.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The findings follow the discovery of a new member of the tyrannosaur family called Daspletosaurus horneri in Montana, US.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 31 Mar. 2017
  • But there is little fossil evidence for young tyrannosaurs.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Numerous sites in northern Canada and Alaska have yielded fantastic finds, including an Arctic tyrannosaur.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2019

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