How to Use bobtail in a Sentence

bobtail

noun

• Hawaiian bobtail squid sleep under the sand all day, coming out to forage at night.
  — National Geographic, 30 June 2018
• That afternoon, members of the convoy drove their bobtail trucks through Black Lives Matter Plaza.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Some of the examples Colson cites: Single-axle tractors pulling bobtail trailers, dump trucks, mixer trucks, fire trucks and garbage trucks.
  — al, 26 May 2021
• Most of his tail was amputated, leaving a very cute little stubby bobtail on his behind.
  — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2022
• The 128 baby bobtail squid will be used as part of research into the effects of spaceflight on the interactions between microbes and animals.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021
• Every evening, nocturnal Hawaiian bobtail squids (Euprymna scolopes) emerge from their burrows in shallow waters of the Pacific to hunt for shrimp.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
• Some of the examples of trucks the association believes could traverse through the Wallace Tunnel and avoid the truck bridge include: Single-axle tractors pulling bobtail trailers, dump trucks, mixer trucks, fire trucks and garbage trucks.
  — al, 9 June 2021
• Studies of the squid's giant axon helped spawn modern neuroscience decades ago, and the light organ of the bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) powered a revolution in the study of symbiotic host-microbe interactions.
  — Danna Staaf, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
• Hawaiian bobtail squid light up via bioluminescent bacteria living in one of their organs; the light camouflages them against moonlight on the surface and eliminates their shadow, obscuring them from predators.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 2 May 2019

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024