Example sentences for: crocodile

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

  • Though crocodiles were hunted out in the 1970s, a crocodile hatchery in the village of Chacahua, located on the western edge of the lagoon, is steadily bringing them back.

  • Baiza `small copper coin of Oman,' for example, is the Arabic version of Hindi paisa . Datura `type of plant' and vanda `variety of orchid' reached English via New Latin; gavial `large crocodile,' from Hindi ghariyal ) via French; and mohar `silver coin of Nepal' via Nepalese.

  • Here is a sampling of improbable movie moments from the summer of 1999: A young man takes a sudden notion to hump an apple pie; a gargantuan crocodile inexplicably migrates from its tropical habitat to set up shop in a frigid Maine lake; a trio of doomed documentarians, being stalked in the woods by a furry witch, never stops filming and videotaping themselves even as they are supposedly jumping out of their skins with terror; the search for an Alzheimer's cure leads to the inadvertent creation of oversized mako sharks with brains so enhanced they are able to apply the principles of hydraulic engineering to their deadly advantage, to say nothing of operating commercial kitchen equipment.

  • You can see penned reptiles at the crocodile farm at La Boca, a popular tourist site where you can pose with a baby croc and taste crocodile steak.

  • This was one time I felt exactly like him,as we three stood pondering our dilemma calmly, maturely.And I did again when he yelled I'm scaredas the clunker with wide headlights and bad muffler("Hell Wagon" or "Devil's Dream" no doubt inscribed on the fender--voted Car Of The Year by escaped convicts and serial killers)glided like a crocodile toward our throbbing, imported taillightsand idled there.


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