How to Use giant squid in a Sentence

giant squid

noun

• In 2012, the first video of a giant squid was filmed in Japan.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 24 June 2019
• Nerve cells of the giant squid can reach up to 39 feet long.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2022
• For the first time, a live giant squid had been filmed in U.S. waters.
  — The Washington Post, al.com, 24 June 2019
• Footage of a giant squid was captured for the first time in the U.S. near New Orleans.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2019
• Over a decade ago, in 2005, the Smithsonian was on the hunt for a giant squid.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
• The Medusa gets around this problem with its red lights, which giant squid don’t see.
  — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• Is this the giant squid of the Black Lake finally getting some love?
  — Alison Wild, EW.com, 20 June 2019
• Roper still marvels that a giant squid was able to spare him a hefty fine.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
• The giant squid is so elusive that even today sightings make the news.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
• The team had indeed bumped into a giant squid—though this one wasn’t quite so giant.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 24 June 2019
• Fairly elusive, the giant squid has been linked to myth since ancient times.
  — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2020
• The squid was about 4 meters long, although giant squid can grow as large as 10 meters or more.
  — Mark Schrope, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2013
• In fact, just about everything about the giant squid is giant!
  — Sean McGowan, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
• What people are talking about A giant squid was captured on video in U.S. waters for the first time.
  — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 24 June 2019
• And with days to go until the end of the two-week expedition, 100 miles southeast of New Orleans, a giant squid took the bait.
  — The Washington Post, al.com, 24 June 2019
• One of their theories is that great whites may be hunting giant squid in the deep water.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
• Last month, a nearly 14-foot giant squid arrived on a South African beach in its death throes, still spewing ink.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
• The album features an orca that never sleeps, a giant squid that lives at the bottom of the ocean, seagull men, etc.
  — Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2018
• While there is little video evidence, there is some footage of giant squids.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2023
• In the shadowy depths of the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii, a shark battled what may have been a giant squid—and lived to tell scientists about it.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
• The footage shows the giant squid stalking the e-jelly, and wrapping its tentacles around it before pulling away.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 24 June 2019
• Children, armed with a mission logbook, will help OceanX crew members search for a giant squid.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 25 June 2021
• The discovery marks the first time that a living giant squid has been filmed in American waters.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
• And thus America perished, by the evil actions of a few, by the inaction of the many, and by the worldwide conspiracy of the giant squid.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
• Widder and her Medusa device captured the first video of giant squid several years ago near Japan.
  — Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2019
• Yosuke Tanaka encountered an 8-foot-long giant squid while diving with his wife off the western coast of Japan.
  — CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
• Some of the squids remain unidentified and could be new species not yet described, but at least one of the attacks came from the famed giant squid, Architeuthis dux.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 13 May 2021
• Days before, the giant squid probably had been swimming and searching for food.
  — Heather Djunga, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
• Very few people have successfully measured the eye of a giant squid.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2012
• Pacific sleeper sharks are covert creatures, hefty as great whites and the only predators besides sperm whales that are known to hunt giant squid.
  — Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024