Squids is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Squids meaning
plural of squid
Using Squids
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of squid
- In the example corpus, squids often appears in combinations such as: of squids, squids is, squids can.
Context around Squids
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Squids
- In this selection, "squids" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vampire, redneck, environment, use and superconducting stand out and add context to how "squids" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and vampire squids these things and and vampire squids use it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "squids" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with squids
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For example, fireflies use light to locate mates, and vampire squids use it to hide themselves from prey. (18 words)
The show, which centers on a family of redneck squids, is one of Adult Swim's longest-running shows. (19 words)
Because their habitat is the murky depths of the ocean’s pelagic zone, the squids can hardly see anything. (19 words)
Beetles and buntings, the giant leaves of the catalpa tree, fireflies and vampire squids — these things helped her get through her sometimes lonely childhood and adolescence as one of the sole people of color in her Midwestern American neighborhoods. (39 words)
In popular culture main Cephalopods, typically octopuses and squids, have been depicted commonly in Western pop culture as creatures that enjoy hugging or latching onto objects with their limbs and refusing to release. (33 words)
We examined this issue using more recent multidecadal abundance trends of squids with spatial aspects, rather the typical practice of examining long-term, usually over a quarter century, species trends collectively. (31 words)
Example sentences (14)
We examined this issue using more recent multidecadal abundance trends of squids with spatial aspects, rather the typical practice of examining long-term, usually over a quarter century, species trends collectively.
Beetles and buntings, the giant leaves of the catalpa tree, fireflies and vampire squids — these things helped her get through her sometimes lonely childhood and adolescence as one of the sole people of color in her Midwestern American neighborhoods.
The show, which centers on a family of redneck squids, is one of Adult Swim's longest-running shows.
Because their habitat is the murky depths of the ocean’s pelagic zone, the squids can hardly see anything.
A novel application of SQUIDs is the magnetic marker monitoring method, which is used to trace the path of orally applied drugs.
Because SQUIDs can operate at acquisition rates much higher than the highest temporal frequency of interest in the signals emitted by the brain (kHz), MEG achieves good temporal resolution.
For example, fireflies use light to locate mates, and vampire squids use it to hide themselves from prey.
In popular culture main Cephalopods, typically octopuses and squids, have been depicted commonly in Western pop culture as creatures that enjoy hugging or latching onto objects with their limbs and refusing to release.
In the clinical environment SQUIDs are used in cardiology for magnetic field imaging (MFI), which detects the magnetic field of the heart for diagnosis and risk stratification.
Lures designed for trolling with downriggers include metal "spoons" that are often decorated with colour tape, and plastic or rubber "squids" with various colours.
Magnetoencephalography (MEG), for example, uses measurements from an array of SQUIDs to make inferences about neural activity inside brains.
RF SQUIDs can work with only one Josephson junction ( superconducting tunnel junction ), which might make them cheaper to produce, but are less sensitive.
Squids and cuttlefish can move short distances in any direction by rippling of a flap of muscle around the mantle.
Superconductors are used to build Josephson junctions which are the building blocks of SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices), the most sensitive magnetometers known.
Common combinations with squids
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of squids 6×
- squids is 3×
- squids can 3×
- squids with 2×
- vampire squids 2×