sabre-toothed tiger
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Otherwise, the reactive mechanisms that were evolved to deal with running away from a sabre-toothed tiger or whatever it was.
From Salon • May 26, 2024
What could, on the other hand, be less boring than seeing the sabre-toothed tiger roaming the streets of Shoreditch, the hippo snoozing outside the Hippodrome?
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013
And intermittent fasting is recommended as a way of mimicking the effects of, say, failing to catch a sabre-toothed tiger.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012
Not for him the modern age, in which "the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are our paragons, and the butterfly is condemned for its wings, which are uneconomic."
From Time Magazine Archive
In great museums to-day, we see the remains of creatures, like the sabre-toothed tiger, that lived probably, over a million years ago.
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert
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