How To Use Chameleon In A Sentence

If the ventral curvature of tail is real, then that, in concert with its extremely narrow scaupulae, suggests that a more appropriate functional analog would be found in arboreal chameleons.
I was a reverse chameleon, shedding my inner self while my skin remained intact.
Raxworthy and colleagues developed a computer model to study chameleons, lizards known for their ability to change color depending on their mood or surroundings, in Madagascar.
Toys made of rubber in the shape of snakes, lizards, chameleons, scorpions and crabs are selling like hot cakes.
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Drew is one of those cinematic chameleons whose character changes to fit the scene, regardless of how preposterous the shift may be.
But if you are a chameleon, you can sneak in and move ahead with the furtiveness required in one-day cricket.
He must find some place where, like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background until he could contact Jerrold. TANK OF SERPENTS
The entire system of evolving life and planet was coevolution, the dance of the chameleon on the mirror.
An ex-mercenary with special 'psychological chameleon' type abilities to blend in locally, is now hired to find out why an incredibly wealthy functionally immortal man was killed. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
People are like chameleons: they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they've no alternative.
Capitalism, with its chameleon-like qualities, must adapt quickly.
The team that saw France bestride the football world for the first time ever had more colours than a chameleon and, ultimately, did more for race relations than any number of government initiatives.
Before she was a fabulous comedy chameleon, Tracey Ullman was a teen dancer touring with a gaggle of chorus boys.
The museum owns two masks, which are similar to the present example; they are adorned with a cockscomb and horns but no chameleons.
If it was one of those chameleons they used to sell at the State Fair of Texas, the ones kids used to wear to school like scapulars until they the chameleons died, you had every reason to fear a protracted and terrible vengeance. Fucking terrifying | clusterflock
One article refers to Flavio Sosa, APPO's spokesman, as a "chameleonlike" leader, as he's changed political affiliations several times. Nov. 8-11, 2006
He has always guarded his private life fiercely, arguing that talking about his off-screen relationships cheapens them and hampers his professional ability to be a chameleon.
I have shifted and shifted the notes and considered and re-considered them under different aspects, taking hints from the delicate chameleon changes of significance that came over them as they harmonised or discorded with their new surroundings. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
Among the saurian the iguanas can be pointed out, as well as the American chameleons and varanus.
This chameleon-like ability is all that protects them from hungry birds, notably titmice. Times, Sunday Times
His chameleon-like vocal style adds dimension, saving the several garden-variety rock ballads they deemed necessary to include.
Turtles, crayfish, snails, fish, salamanders, American chameleons, newts, insects, bacteria, and algae all can be successfully raised in the River Tank, but questions remain as to which ones can coexist, and for how long, before being eaten by another inhabitant.
He was a brilliant careerist and opportunist, a political chameleon whose life story seems more the stuff of fiction than of any kind of conventional history.
I watch the sky change its colour like a chameleon.
According to Anderson, the ability of chameleons to change color stems from special cells called chromatophores found in the upper layers of their skin.
For those who prefer the actor as magician, chameleon, and master of disguises, no one has proved more satisfying than Sir Alec Guinness, who just died at age 86.
There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
The chameleonic Ribot shines in this setting with his unsurprisingly individual take on the bop guitar tradition.
Dissection of chameleon tongues revealed an elastic collagen tissue sandwiched between the tongue bone and the accelerator muscle.
Putting a chameleon on a mirror seemed a simple enough experiment that I thought that even a writer could perform it.
Blue skinks, bearded dragons, crocodiles, alien-looking veiled chameleons, reticulated pythons, leopard tortoises, and tiny glistening frogs and toads of every color.
The following are answers to several questions I have been asked recently about a common lizard of the Southeast, called green anoles by some people and American chameleons by others.
And many fish — blennies, flounders, seahorses — can rotate their eyes independently of each other, like chameleons. Times, Sunday Times
The chameleon's skin replicates the pattern of its surroundings.
Returning to Arkansas after his years as a Rhodes scholar and Yale law student, Bill Clinton, the great chameleon of modern American political history, had to reconnect with an American vernacular.
Everyone in Canada will now have the uncanny ability of the chameleon.
We then started studying green anoles (otherwise known as American chameleons), the creatures that live in the grass that we planted.
As he showed yesterday, he is above all a brilliant political chameleon.
His workmanlike versatility and steady output have earned him a reputation as an artistic chameleon.
A chameleon was shifting to match the kaleidoscope of colour given off by the lights of a gramophone record store.
He has been likened to a tortoise, a hare, an owl, a clownfish and a chameleon, and it all started in a monkey's cage. Real Madrid find 'Nemo' to their liking as Mesut Ozil settles in well
There are no native American chameleons, although there are many pet chameleons.
This is the last view myriad insects have in life before being swamped by a long, sticky tongue and sucked back into the chameleon's mouth.
The graphs and charts provide fascinating information, along with colorful photographs of many different types of chameleons.
First and foremost is Mike Myers, who is known as a vocal chameleon.
It was a talent, just like that overwhelming smile of his, the ability to acquire stature or shed it like a chameleon changing its colour. PROSPECT HILL
Staring back at them was five chicken feathers, two elephant tails, two dried chameleons, one genet skin, grass, pea and seed pods, tree bark chips, soil, a water jug containing soil, herbs and blood and the sheets covered with blood from a sacrificed chicken. What not to pack: Bloody sheets, animals
But in addition to the physical side of his character, you also see the secretive, chameleon-like side.
They change color like the chameleon, and they return like a boomerang.
As an illustration, the following chameleon and dwarf chameleon forms are restricted to this ecoregion: Calumma gallus, C. cucullata, C. furcifer balteatus, Furcifer bifidus, Brookesia superciliaris, and B. therezieni. Madagascar lowland forests
Always a chameleon, she had acquired the distinctive Minne-sooa-tah Norwegian-Chippewa accent after six years and seldom called. VITALS
The American chameleon, or anole, is not a true chameleon, but a small lizard of the iguana family, found in the SE United States and noted for its color changes.
Contrary to popular belief, the American chameleon does not assume the color of its surroundings.
The operation, code-named ‘Chameleon’ began on January 15, 2004, when police in Munich were tipped off by Turkish police about a consignment of heroin which was about to be trafficked from Turkey to Western Europe.
It was a talent, just like that overwhelming smile of his, the ability to acquire stature or shed it like a chameleon changing its colour. PROSPECT HILL
Many living animals have horns or hornlike organs; the list includes antelope, deer, chameleons, birds, and even ants.
It is as if to survive, it has had to change names, like a chameleon changing colours.
Like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background.
Our actors are the chameleons who change words like parts but always deliver an essential truth.
The chameleon responds to the image it has generated, just as the shrimp responds to the atmosphere it has generated.
People are like chameleons: they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they've no alternative.
Most North American lizards belong to this family, including the collared lizards, the utas, the swifts, the so-called horned toads, or horned lizards, and the American chameleon, or anole (not a true chameleon).
She began to shed the brilliant borrowed chameleon plumage, she wanted to let Lucy in.
Brand published his chameleon koan in his Whole Earth Catalog, in 1974.
The chameleon - grey like the sheets but clearly visible - was on Sophie's side of the bed. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
The reason of this appears to be that a part of the manganese is first precipitated as hydrated sesquioxide, which is afterward oxidized to hydrated peroxide, for the upper portion of the liquid may sometimes be colored by chameleon, while the lower portion, which is in closer contact with the precipitate, is less colored or absolutely colorless. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
A chameleon was shifting to match the kaleidoscope of colour given off by the lights of a gramophone record store.
The chameleon is sometimes green, sometimes blue, it is all colours by turn, and sometimes it is absolutely colourless.
Always a chameleon, she had acquired the distinctive Minne-sooa-tah Norwegian-Chippewa accent after six years and seldom called. VITALS
The chameleon on a mirror riddle is best kept in idealized form as a thought experiment.
Particularly those who have never seen this company before will be dazzled by its creative staging and chameleon-like acting.
She was a chameleon, out on a limb, and had chosen a difficult camouflage.
Celestial and August: a vase imitating the substance of ore-rock, all aflame with pyritic scintillation, -- a shape of glittering splendor with chameleons sprawling over it; chameleons of porcelain that shifted color as often as the beholder changed his position. Some Chinese Ghosts
In the pure-cone American chameleon retina, all visual opsins including rod opsin are expressed.
Mr. Rockwell, 40, who has become a beloved, chameleonic character actor thanks to his roles in movies like Safe Men, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Frost/Nixon (not to mention his weirdly seductive turn in Charlie’s Angels), grew up the son of two actors in what The New York Times once described as a footloose childhood. The Man Who Fell to Moon
Particularly well known for her Rossini, the consummate singer-actress changes like a chameleon to adapt to the requirements of the repertoire.
Here you find the most extreme desert adapted fauna and flora including Hartmann's Mountain zebra, chameleons, 1,000 year old welwitschia and quiver trees.
A seemingly unlikely sight as it crosses a salt pan, this Flap-necked Chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis) is probably searching for new feeding grounds or possibly a mate.
This is a man without a shred of integrity, a man who will change his colours like a chameleon to suit the situation.
The chameleon - grey like the sheets but clearly visible - was on Sophie's side of the bed. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
The chameleon survives by blending in with its background.
The final cause of the process is that the chameleon should escape detection by its predators.
We all understand the ability of the chameleon to change its colours to suit its environment.
Always a chameleon, she had acquired the distinctive Minne-sooa-tah Norwegian-Chippewa accent after six years and seldom called. VITALS
The chameleon - grey like the sheets but clearly visible - was on Sophie's side of the bed. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Asking him to deliver is like expected a chameleon to stay the same colour whatever its environment.
To party cynics, she may be seen as a political chameleon, reinventing herself to charm the voters.
Near Panurge, with his kersey coat, its hair used to turn grey; near Pantagruel, with his scarlet mantle, its hair and skin grew red; near the pilot, dressed after the fashion of the Isiacs of Anubis in Egypt, its hair seemed all white, which two last colours the chameleons cannot borrow. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The kids have also produced a range of beautiful, whimsical mobiles of chameleons, shongololos, birds, fish, stars and planets made out of junk and found objects.
He had drive and would go out of his way to pursue a target; he's a chameleon and can change from one person to the next in order to seem compatible.
This is similar in ways to the chameleon, a lizard which can alter the colour of its skin.
The protrusible tongue, ending in a sticky club, can be shot out for about seven inches in the common chameleon. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
The snake's venom courses through the bloodstream of the chameleon, causing instant paralysis.
He has, after all, always been a bit of an actor, with his chameleon persona and a voice that sometimes has a chummy, mockney tone.
The Chameleons it most definitely isn't, but the Fielding guitar sound is unmistakeable.
The chameleon has the ability to bring long life or death, fecundity or barrenness, depending on its color.
The only problem I have now is that I have a bit, and *only* a bit and not a useful enough amount, of an auditory chameleonic trait, and so listening to ten hours of Lenny Henry now means I catch myself today occasionally slipping into a faux-Caribbean accent. Mammothbooks, acoustic Aphex Twin, vampire v. werewolf, Anansiaudio
So intense is the chameleon's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger.
As we drew closer in and "sheered" the Chameleon, so as to bring the light abeam, I directed our signal officer to make the regular signal. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
The chameleon can take on the colours of its background.
The chameleon-like Isle of Man has masqueraded as many real places too.
She can switch roles as quick as a chameleon but this one was something that needed a little more than a deft flick of the wrist and a witty turn of phrase.
In addition to iguanas, the Iguania include agamids, chameleons and a few lesser known groups.
I have heard him spoken of as a charlatan, as a chameleon, as a chatterbox, and, by a man who had hoped that the KAISER would be hanged in Piccadilly Circus, as a chouser. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920
There's a new, scalier lord of the jungle: Tarzan the chameleon. Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
Some other chameleon species sport a longer so-called rostral process with a flexible tip, though scientists aren't sure the function of such a movable tip. Livescience.com
These and a whole list of other questions far longer than a chameleon's telescopic tongue, still need to be answered.
Growing up in Kenya, my brother and I often shared the branches with a chameleon as we reached for the juicy, yellow loquats, keeping our eyes open for snakes.
There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
It was a talent, just like that overwhelming smile of his, the ability to acquire stature or shed it like a chameleon changing its colour. PROSPECT HILL
In our judgment it is clear that 'premises' is a chameleon-like word which takes its meaning from its context.
the adaptive coloring of a chameleon
The political chameleon changes its colors according to pressure, not conscience.
Like a chameleon, flower color changes dramatically - from pink to coppery pink to rusty orange as the season progresses.
Like a chameleon, it moved out of the aisle between machines, then stopped, and became utterly motionless.
This is a common characteristic between American chameleons and those of Europe and Africa.
Not only that, but what we want, and who we are, is as fluid and changeable as a chameleon.
It lacked the light brown fur, however, and instead owned a soft, fleshy skin with the abilities of a chameleon.
They are often referred to as American chameleons, although they are unrelated to chameleons.
The album received poor reviews and left many critics asking if pop's most successful chameleon had lost her touch.
In the near future Kayla is a chameleon, a person who has nanos injected into her to record the experiences for others. IROSF
We can of course also determine the titration for manganese in a chameleon solution with the greatest certainty by titrating a compound of manganese with an accurately estimated content of it, for instance, a spiegeleisen or ferromanganese; the test is carried out in the following way: The substance, which is to be examined for manganese, is dissolved by means of hydrochloric acid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
Green anoles are often called American chameleons because of their ability to change color from bright green to brown to grey.
By day 160, the controls were staying the course, but both reversal groups had switched and were now well on their way to the color intensity of their new substrate, confirming that turtles can completely reverse melanization. chameleons and squid-even if their melanization process is, true to form, much slower. Livescience.com
Check out your local pet shop and look into anoles, chameleons, and skinks, among many others.
To camouflage their scam, the chameleon-like operators all use similar tricks.
How he staggered along until the roads sweltered with the buzz and hum of speakers situated in trees, arranged on poles along concrete roads; spoken by speakers propped on low lying sandstone and speakers covered with the vacant nests of birds and speakers where chameleons lay sunning; speakers worn and spitting dead wires and wires sparking. The Clown Show
The chameleon's skin replicates the pattern of its surroundings.
Sydney is definitely a great spy, if only for her chameleon-like ability to change her appearance to suit any situation.
Mary jabbed her bony fist at the air, accenting the final notes of Chameleon. Chameleon
White many other kinds of lizards can extend their tongues to seize small prey, only chameleons have evolved a powerful suction device: a pouch on the lingual tip.
That puts freshwater turtles in the same league as chameleons and squid-even if their melanization process is, true to form, much slower. Daily News & Analysis
My personality has become quite chameleon-like.
The chameleon will then dart out its long, sticky-tipped tongue, impale the insect and swallow it.
Remarkably, the loss of the tongue protractors in chameleons has not affected the external feeding kinematics.
Similarly, some modern ectotherms, chameleons for example, have an erect posture.
There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
Frightening beasts, these chameleon-like creatures are capable of transforming into any being they have seen while they have the strength to do so.
He describes the _figurant_ as a multiform actor, a dramatic chameleon, compelled by the special nature of his occupation, or rather by its lack of special nature, to appear young or old, crooked or straight, noble or base-born, savage or civilised, according to the good pleasure of the dramatist. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
She alone was capable of the amazing things she mastered like a vocal chameleon.
The chameleon will then dart out its long, sticky-tipped tongue, impale the insect and swallow it.
But just as it may have to shift its ground, there's a feeling that perhaps she has to look for a more singular, less chameleon-like direction rather than the everywoman she's so good at.
To some of you, he'll be best known as the fiendish Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter films, but to me he is, in the words of David Bowie, chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature. The Guardian World News
They have been replaced by the corresponding segments of the pigment of American chameleon.
A chameleon as well as a shapeshifter then. Times, Sunday Times
He must find some place where, like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background until he could contact Jerrold. TANK OF SERPENTS
In the evening the Mekong always seemed to come alive, changing its colour like a chameleon, camouflaging itself against the darkening sky until it swallowed the sun.
Their eyes move independently of each other, like those of a chameleon, and their bodies are covered by bony plates, similar to those of seahorses.
Chameleons such as this male Parson's chameleon from Madagascar change their skin color to hide and to communicate.
He must find some place where, like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background until he could contact Jerrold. TANK OF SERPENTS
It is fascinating to watch the character of Wilde change, chameleon-like, according to the features of the surrounding landscape of his life.
It was crammed with cakes, butterscotch, hardbake, pots of jam, and even a bottle of ginger wine—enough to compromise a chameleon! Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
On allowing the solution to stand exposed to the air, it rapidly becomes blue, violet, purple, and finally red, by the gradual conversion of the manganate into the permanganate of potash; and on account of these changes of color the black mass has received the name of mineral chameleon. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
Remember Trumpet Winsock, the Chameleon browser, and AOL offers showing up on 3. 5-inch disks? Paul Venezia's blog
Sohlberg the artist, responding like a chameleon to the various emotional complexions of life, began to breathe stertorously, to blanch, to lose control of himself. The Titan
The wide renown of Puvis, a chameleon of a painter, meant that his relatively anodyne pastorals could be championed by just about anybody for just about any purpose.
Paul Desenne, mixed Gallic suavity and Latin American brio for a chameleonic dash through various subdivisions of a nine-beat bar. NYT > Home Page
It happened because I was married to an American chameleon (I must mention here that American chameleons are not true chameleons - they look much the same but lack some of our more amazing abilities).
Of the animals that move about on the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon. Modern Science in the Bible
The platinum-blonde chameleon - who morphed from a slouchy beatnik to a feminine sophisticate in a shimmering top and strappy heels during the course of an evening - rounded out her single-encore set with a series of piano ballads and acoustic numbers.
A social chameleon and born survivor, Sneath is there as events unfold and is around to tell the story later.
Only a few visits to your doctor will be enough to implant you with chameleon genes and you've got thought controlled cosmetics.
I did not want to give you the chameleon terror solution, only to discover down the line that the anole solution was actually in order. Fucking terrifying | clusterflock
I'm a Piscean, who admits to being a complete social chameleon, and I would be completely over-whelmed and swamped by the personalities of others.
Toronto Zoo gave their chameleon to Sofia Zoo as a sign of gratitude for the female hippopotamus sent to impregnate a Toronto Zoo hippopotamus last year.
From the "fantastic bestiary" I realized a big chameleon, like the dragon in legend in China .
This is similar in ways to the chameleon, a lizard which can alter the colour of its skin.
There are some women such as Marie Boyer and Gabrielle Fenayrou, who may be described as passively criminal, chameleon-like, taking colour from their surroundings. A Book of Remarkable Criminals
She is a chameleon – she takes on the accents, hobbies, and interests of those around her to make her look less like a multi-millionnaire and more like everyone else. Hillary Clinton takes a swing at sports metaphors
In addition to iguanas, the Iguania include agamids, chameleons and a few lesser known groups.

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