Example sentences for: crocodile

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

  • 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.

  • The recently released Dick portrays the president, as Stephen Holden wrote in the New York Times , "with his hunched shoulders, darting paranoid gaze and crocodile grimace ...

  • Neither Kubrick nor the first-time filmmakers from Blair Witch Project have much to fear in the way of competition from this flaccid creature feature, written by David E. Kelley ( The Practice , Ally McBeal ). At a fictional lake in Maine--not the real Lake Placid in New York--Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman take on a 30-foot migrant crocodile from Asia.

  • 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.

  • crocodile tears.


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