Words similar to reptile

Example sentences for: reptile

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

There's a legend about a place called "Spook Hill," where ghosts supposedly help push your car to the summit, and one about Confederate soldiers dumped in a well, and one about a mythical beast called the Snallygaster--part reptile, part bird, part octopus, with "huge jaws" and "razor sharp teeth."
In 1985, while writing a review of Sylvester Stallone's grotesque rabble-rouser Rocky IV , I went back and watched the original Rocky to see if--to borrow the controlling metaphor of Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg --"through the thin membranes you [could] clearly discern the already perfect reptile."
Monkey and Reptile room open."
For example, a reptile has a slower metabolic rate than a mammal of the same size.
I lit a match in an endeavor to locate the reptile.