How to Use bullfrog in a Sentence

bullfrog

noun
Definition of bullfrognext
  • The egg masses of the bullfrog take the form of a floating mat.
    — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The bullfrogs get very large and eat the leopard frogs.
    — Sam Lounsberry, The Denver Post, 3 July 2019
  • With only the birds and bullfrogs for a soundtrack, the ride was peaceful and restorative.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
  • A loon calls from across the lake, maybe followed by the hoot of an owl, with bullfrogs and crickets as background singers.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2017
  • Sometimes, when the car was stopped at a light next to some kids, Dizzy would turn, purse his lips and blow his cheeks up like a bullfrog.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Rossi ate three cooked scorpions and a bullfrog in one challenge, and Daly milked a camel.
    — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2018
  • With a mighty leap, the bullfrogs vaulted off and into the night, joining the chirping crickets.
    — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • One day, an aquarist brought Van Bonn a bullfrog that had hurt its leg while wrestling with another male of the species.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The group learned about tree frogs, mole salamanders, African bullfrogs, and more during the session.
    — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The crack of occasional twigs proved to be nothing more than bullfrogs.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2017
  • It’s no surprise that Cornyn likened the exercise to trying to keep a colony of bullfrogs in a wheelbarrow.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 28 June 2017
  • At this splash pad, kids can run through loops, cannons, spraying bullfrog and monkey.
    — azcentral, 14 June 2018
  • But that’s a tough mission, because danger surrounds this lonely bullfrog, which may be the last one in the United States.
    — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The family set up a tent in a quiet spot surrounded by trees, close to a murky pond with a chorus of insistent bullfrogs.
    — Erin Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Jim Tonelli said, bullfrogs croaking in a pond on his property.
    — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
  • Our study into the sticky, slimy world of frogs all began with a humorous video of a real African bullfrog lunging at fake insects in a mobile game.
    — Alexis Noel and David Hu, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Our study into the sticky, slimy world of frogs all began with a humorous video of a real African bullfrog lunging at fake insects in a mobile game.
    — Alexis Noel and David Hu, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Then there was the American bullfrog, an invader from the East Coast that not only competed with smaller frogs but ate them.
    — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • This also protects them from the voracious bullfrog, an invasive species that has contributed to the decline of the leopard frog.
    — Eli Francovich, The Seattle Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • But since the 1960s, nonnative trout, bullfrogs and crayfish have decimated these frogs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • A picture taking social media by storm supposedly shows a hunter in Texas hoisting a bullfrog - that weighs 13 pounds.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 May 2017
  • The bullfrog's skull is fragile, partly due to the large holes for the eyes (which are retracted during swallowing, possibly to help push food back toward the esophagus).
    — Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2012
  • Water pollution can harm their populations, and alien species such as crayfish and bullfrogs can prey on water bugs.
    — National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Scientists consider the American bullfrog one of the world’s top 100 invasive species.
    — Jane Braxton Little, sacbee, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The bullfrog also frequently carries a skin fungus that can be deadly to other amphibians.
    — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • His speech combined his Dr. Seussian gift of conjuring lyrical, yet logical new words with the gravelly accent of a bayou mobster bullfrog.
    — Hanna Krueger, nola.com, 22 June 2019
  • Some of these voracious predators, including this African bullfrog, have a formidable bite due to large, bony fangs on the lower jaw (highlighted in orange).
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Since the 1960s, the species has been decimated by fires, mudslides, pesticides, fungal infections, loss of habitat and the appetites of nonnative trout, bullfrogs and crayfish.
    — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 27 June 2018
  • The road winds through the Bullfrog Hills—prospectors thought its green rock resembled the skin of a bullfrog—before a wide valley comes into view, dizzyingly vast for anyone unaccustomed to the basin-and-range topography of the West.
    — Hillary Angelo, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Families will meet various Animal Ambassadors such as a rabbit, an African bullfrog, an Axolotl, a duck and more.
    — Courant Community, 18 Dec. 2017

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