How to Use cuttlefish in a Sentence

cuttlefish

noun

• Lorcan has the best find of the day: a cuttlefish bone smoothed by the sea, silk-soft.
  — Longreads, 4 May 2021
• But not all is equal in the eyes of cuttlefish and human.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• But no one is quite sure how a cuttlefish brain takes what the eyes see and gets the muscles of the skin to copy it.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• An inky battle ensued, and the researchers caught it all on video—the first record of cuttlefish competing for a mate in the wild.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
• Her whole speech was more confused than a cuttlefish trying to play parcheesi.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 July 2021
• The octopus brain is one of the most remarkable on Earth, and its cousin the cuttlefish is no slouch, either.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
• The new marshmallow test that the cuttlefish were given saw the cuttlefish put in a small area with crab meat.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Dec. 2022
• Or is cuttlefish in a five-spice sauce and a Bombay Sapphire gin more your fancy?
  — Shivani Vora, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2017
• Because the tint comes from a natural source, shades of sepia vary based on the local diets of the cuttlefish and where the pigment was made.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Most shops close between noon and 4 p.m., so grab hummus and grilled cuttlefish for lunch at Parisa, located in the souk.
  — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2017
• Small muscles tug those sacs open or closed to rapidly change the cuttlefish’s color.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2019
• The master of disruptive coloration may be the cuttlefish, which can change the color and pattern of its skin.
  — Mary Bates, Animals, 24 Nov. 2020
• The idea for the study arose because previous work has shown that cuttlefish can remember past events.
  — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• And 8 years ago, another animal joined the club: the cuttlefish.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 18 Aug. 2021
• Their lack of yoked eyes is not the only thing that’s different about a cuttlefish’s stereopsis.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
• Though a far cry from a human, big-brained cuttlefish are good candidates for stereo vision.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• In Japan, raw squid (or its cousin, cuttlefish) is a popular choice at sushi bars — beautiful white translucent slices draped over the sweet rice.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 7 July 2017
• And at the omakase restaurant the Araki in London, the chef Marty Lau slices white cuttlefish and squid into fine ribbons and tops them with a spoonful of golden roe.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• The same sense of discovery rang true with cuttlefish — squid’s more brawny cousin — stir-fried in bouncy sections with vegetables in a twangy sour sauce.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
• Lunch service starts this week, featuring dishes like crab with leeks and sweet herbs and a stew of cuttlefish, mussels and chickpeas.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• But cuttlefish and other cephalopods may be an intriguing test case.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• The feat is the first time researchers have knocked out a gene in cephalopods, a class of invertebrates that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus.
  — Lydia Rivers, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2021
• The pair took a gondola across the Grand Canal to the nearly 1,000-year-old Rialto fish market to pick up cuttlefish (seppia in Italian), a cousin of the squid and the octopus.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 1 May 2022
• In other words, cuttlefish can’t perfectly match a coral reef.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2019
• Her team recorded nerve signals from three cephalopod species: a cuttlefish and two species of octopus.
  — Danna Staaf, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
• Our lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
• Long ago, the ancestors of octopuses, and indeed the ancestors of all other cephalopods like cuttlefish and squid, took refuge in the safety of their shells.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2015
• Other types of cephalopods include squid, nautiloids and cuttlefish.
  — Erin Spencer, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
• Like an octopus, cuttlefish release a cloud of ink when threatened.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• This cuttlefish can change its skin pattern to blend in with different background environments.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024