"modern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Being semi-aquatic it is very similar to modern crocodiles.
- Shamosuchus also looked like modern crocodiles and was very closely related to their direct ancestor.
- Swallowing was done by tipping the head back, as seen in modern crocodiles.
- It was over 6 ft (2m) long and is thought to have behaved like a modern crocodile.
- It probably was an ambush hunter like modern crocodiles.
- The early competitors to the dinosaurs, called crurotarsans, were close relatives of modern crocodiles.
- Its stance, with the legs under the body, would have made it a faster and more efficient runner than a modern crocodile.
- Its general appearance was similar to a modern crocodile, such as the gharial.
- Sarcosuchus was twice the size of any modern crocodile.
- The world we live in - including its modern crocodiles - looks normal to us because it happens to be our world.
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