How do you use the word "lizard" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "lizard": She has a tattoo of a lizard on her thigh. If you cut the tail off of a lizard, it will grow back.

Lizard Meaning

/ˈlɪz.əːd/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of Mosasauria — typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, four limbs and a long tail, although some species are legless.

nounAny reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of †Mosasauria—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.

Sentence Examples

She has a tattoo of a lizard on her thigh.

If you cut the tail off of a lizard, it will grow back.

CEFR Practice Quiz

A small ____ with a long tail ran across the hot desert sand.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A small green ____ scurried across the hot rocks and disappeared into a narrow crack in the wall today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (compare French lézard), from Latin lacertus, which is of obscure origin. Displaced native Middle English aske, from Old English āþexe (> modern English ask, askard).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings." — a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:

"The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]" — 1851, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXX, pages 223–224:

"Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks." — 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

"When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus." — 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139:

"Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet." — 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:

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