Example sentences for: amphibious

How can you use “amphibious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A walkway connects it to the graceless 52-story Prudential Center, from which the famous amphibious vehicles leave on Boston Duck Tours.

  • But Java programs are still considerably slower than those written for a particular operating system, just as amphibious creatures are not as good on land as mammals or as good in water as fish.

  • Spallanzani closed his 1768 monograph on regeneration, An Essay on Animal Reproductions , with a series of questions— which, except for the antiquated language, could be asked by citizens of the twenty-first century: But if the abovementioned animals, either aquatic or amphibious, recover their legs, even when kept on dry ground, how comes it to pass, that other land animals, at least such as are commonly accounted perfect, and are better known to us, are not endued with the same power?

  • In 1942, without adequate Allied naval and air support, the high-risk amphibious raid of 5,000 Canadian troops on Dieppe proved disastrous (almost 1,000 killed, 2,000 captured).

  • ' A failed amphibious military operation considered badly planned and/or executed.


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