Explore Shark through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like elasmobranch or wrongdoer. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Shark in a sentence
Related words
Shark meaning
- Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
Shark vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Shark
- The main meaning on this page is: Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head. | Flesh of this animal, consumed as food. | Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- Useful related words include: elasmobranch, selachian, wrongdoer, offender.
- Possible Dutch translations are: haai.
- In the example corpus, shark often appears in combinations such as: the shark, shark tank, white shark.
Context around Shark
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shark
- In this selection, "shark" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, white, tiger, motionless, cartilage, hunter and researcher stand out and add context to how "shark" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dead shark and a tropical shark display one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shark" sits close to words such as cbd, hilarious and lifelong, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shark
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The tiger shark is named for its tiger-like stripes, although those stripes fade as the shark matures. (18 words)
Four species of shark could be landed when the tournament began: shortfin mako, porbeagle, blue shark and common thresher. (19 words)
The motionless shark is beached, and the man drags the shark by the shark and tosses it deeper into the ocean. (21 words)
Gates also has shark adventures of his own as he tests the tiger-shark infested waters at the Georgia Aquarium and becomes one of the first people to dive into their new shark exhibit, one of the largest in the world. (41 words)
For example, the continued spreading of the idea that shark cartilage can cure cancer has led to decreased shark populations although scientific research has found no evidence to support the credibility of shark cartilage as a cancer cure. (38 words)
Generally sharks have only one layer of tesserae, but the jaws of large specimens, such as the bull shark, tiger shark, and the great white shark, have two to three layers or more, depending on body size. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Local shark researcher John Chisholm was alerted to the shark from the New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance, which had gotten a call about the shark on its rescue hotline.
The motionless shark is beached, and the man drags the shark by the shark and tosses it deeper into the ocean.
Gates also has shark adventures of his own as he tests the tiger-shark infested waters at the Georgia Aquarium and becomes one of the first people to dive into their new shark exhibit, one of the largest in the world.
The Black Shark 3 is listed with model numbers Shark MBU-A0 and Shark KLE-A0 on the 3C certification site.
From the position of other fossils near the find, it was inferred that the shark’s last meal was a much smaller shark, and after dying, its carcass was scavenged by another large shark.
For example, the continued spreading of the idea that shark cartilage can cure cancer has led to decreased shark populations although scientific research has found no evidence to support the credibility of shark cartilage as a cancer cure.
Generally sharks have only one layer of tesserae, but the jaws of large specimens, such as the bull shark, tiger shark, and the great white shark, have two to three layers or more, depending on body size.
The Great Yarmouth centre is home to a tropical shark display, one resident of which is Britain's biggest shark 'Nobby' the Nurse Shark.
After the first suspected white shark attack in Canada for over 150 years, experts Greg Skomal, Heather Bowlby, Megan Winton, and Warren Joyce investigate what drives white shark’s journey to the northernmost limit of their range.
Despite South Australia’s White Shark Tour Licensing Coverage making certain white shark tourism at Neptune Islands is environmentally sustainable and socially accountable, many have had complaints in regards to the observe as an entire.
Four species of shark could be landed when the tournament began: shortfin mako, porbeagle, blue shark and common thresher.
It sounds more like a lion than a shark, although who can say without any real conviction what noise a shark makes.
Shark Hunter: Chasing the Great White, Mundus was now an ex-shark hunter as he traveled to South Africa to watch boisterous sharks that lunged out of the waters.
The tiger shark is named for its tiger-like stripes, although those stripes fade as the shark matures.
Trophy hunters are dumping mutilated pigs and small shark carcasses in the ocean as bait for bigger sharks - as one scuba diver discovers her name horrifyingly carved into the body of a dead shark.
While the painted hornshark is very similar to its close relatives, the species' egg shells (top) feature distinct differences to those of the zebra bullhead shark (middle) and Pork Jackson shark (bottom).
Winton and others were able to attach four tags to the shark, including a satellite spot tag that people can follow on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app.
With Shark Week … don’t get me wrong, I hope the guy is okay (and he appears to be) … but I can’t help but love shark videos.
Ali Hood, director of conservation at the Shark Trust, told MailOnline: 'In some parts of the UK shark meat is traditionally sold under a few different names, such as Rock Salmon, Huss and Flake.
As everyone who has reeled up half a fish knows, sharks are abundant in Alabama waters, and several shark fishermen have asked for more leeway to harvest the allowed shark species.
Common combinations with shark
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the shark 45×
- shark tank 19×
- white shark 18×
- of shark 14×
- shark is 11×
- shark and 11×
- shark was 8×
- in shark 7×
- shark attack 6×
- by shark 6×