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
Essentially, the unspoken message you’re going for is: genuine, dependable, useful in a sabre-toothed tiger attack.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2016
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
"And that goes for the sabre-toothed tiger, too."
From Tahara Among African Tribes by Harold M. Sherman
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