How do you use Sauropod in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Sauropod meaning
A member of the Sauropoda suborder of dinosaurs
Synonyms of Sauropod
Using Sauropod
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of the Sauropoda suborder of dinosaurs
- Useful related words include: sauropod dinosaur, saurischian, saurischian dinosaur.
Context around Sauropod
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sauropod
- In this selection, "sauropod" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, titanosaurian, commonest, small, trackways, alamosaurus and image stand out and add context to how "sauropod" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a small sauropod dinosaur and by gigantic sauropod dinosaurs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sauropod" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sauropod
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mackal believes the description of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé is "consistent with a small sauropod dinosaur". (15 words)
The Morrison Formation records a time when the local environment was dominated by gigantic sauropod dinosaurs. (16 words)
During this time Triceratops was the major herbivore in the northern portion of its range, while the titanosaurian sauropod Alamosaurus "dominated" its southern range. (24 words)
However, new fossil discoveries show that Bird might have been correct in thinking that (at least some) forefeet-only sauropod trackways were made by dinosaurs swimming or wading in shallow water. (31 words)
Timothy Frauenfelder, lead researcher and PhD candidate said: 'Teeth are one of the smallest bones in a sauropod and there is an abundance of them at Lightning Ridge. (28 words)
Loxton and Prothero argue that the sauropod image of Mokele Mbembe reflects a confirmation bias which seeks to force ambiguous eyewitness accounts to support wishful thinking. (26 words)
Example sentences (7)
However, new fossil discoveries show that Bird might have been correct in thinking that (at least some) forefeet-only sauropod trackways were made by dinosaurs swimming or wading in shallow water.
Timothy Frauenfelder, lead researcher and PhD candidate said: 'Teeth are one of the smallest bones in a sauropod and there is an abundance of them at Lightning Ridge.
During this time Triceratops was the major herbivore in the northern portion of its range, while the titanosaurian sauropod Alamosaurus "dominated" its southern range.
Ischium of an Apatosaurus showing bite marks from a large theropod Apatosaurus was the second-commonest sauropod in the Morrison Formation ecosystem, after Camarasaurus.
Loxton and Prothero argue that the sauropod image of Mokele Mbembe reflects a confirmation bias which seeks to force ambiguous eyewitness accounts to support wishful thinking.
Mackal believes the description of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé is "consistent with a small sauropod dinosaur".
The Morrison Formation records a time when the local environment was dominated by gigantic sauropod dinosaurs.