Sample Sentences for
Jurassic
(editor-reviewed)

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    They had flourished as the dominant life-form on the planet in the Jurassic, 190 million years ago.  (source)
    Jurassic = age of dinosaurs roughly 150-200 million years ago
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    Mr. Galvin's been teaching at P.S. 38 since the Jurassic period.  (source)
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    It was the size of a dinner plate and had not existed on the earth since the Jurassic period.  (source)
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    By now, David had released the pinlegs, which promptly moved away to settle on the fireplace mantel like some glistening Jurassic horror.  (source)
    Jurassic = from the geologic period of the dinosaurs (about 175 million years ago)
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    I don't know what they did," Deborah said, "but it all sound like Jurassic Park to me.  (source)
    Jurassic = reference to the movie/book about cloning dinosaurs
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    A Jurassic turtle.  (source)
    Jurassic = from the geologic period of the dinosaurs (about 175 million years ago)
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    Of the Permian, the Jurassic?  (source)
    Jurassic = age of dinosaurs roughly 150-200 million years ago
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    I feel all shaky and awed, like Laura Dern in Jurassic Park when she sees the dinosaurs for the first time.  (source)
    Jurassic = reference to the movie (based on a book) about cloned dinosaurs in modern times
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    She remembered combing his hair and packing a sandwich in a Jurassic Park lunch box on his first day of kindergarten.†  (source)
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    For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period.†  (source)
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    It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times.†  (source)
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    The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle.†  (source)
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    Pliocene, miocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic, permian, carboniferous, devonian, silurian, or primitive was all one to me.†  (source)
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