How to Use great white shark in a Sentence

great white shark

noun
  • Which means for now, the great white shark rules the 'Ring.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Excuse the mixed metaphor, but the Viper feels like a great white shark on the road.
    WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
  • That’s nearly three times the length of a great white shark.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Yes, that is a great white shark popping out of the ocean.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • And one pro surfer's very close call with a great white shark.
    NBC News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • That's about two to three times the size of today's great white shark.
    Maddie Burakoff, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But what of the great white sharks’ new home farther east?
    David Shiffman, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But, the great white shark can't be ruled out as a suspect.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • Besides, who wouldn’t want to watch a great white shark’s home movies?
    Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
  • The group spotted a great white shark swimming close to their boat.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • There's a great white shark making his rounds along the Atlantic seaboard.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • New drone footage appears to show the first time a newborn great white shark has been spotted in the wild.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Australia is home to large seal colonies—and many great white sharks that pursue them.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Jim Cocci of Viera named a great white shark after his wife, Colleen.
    Grace Pateras, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Adult great white sharks are gray on top and white underneath.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Ryder Dodd of JSerra rises from the pool like a great white shark flying out of the ocean.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Trying to land and unhook a great white shark while seated in a kayak on an open bay?
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
  • No great white shark birth, in fact, has ever been witnessed.
    Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
  • Kendall-Bar says that the team believes the seals sleep in this way to avoid sneak attacks from orcas or great white sharks.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Scot, a massive great white shark, has been recorded swimming off the Gulf Coast.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Things go south quickly, however, when the group comes face-to-face with great white sharks.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The painting shows a scene from the book in which a tourist, Chrissie Watkins, becomes prey for the great white shark while skinny dipping.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Even if those creatures don’t give you anxiety, there is one that might: the great white shark.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
  • The special includes first-of-its-kind drone footage of three killer whales attacking a great white shark near the shores of South Africa.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Megalodon has a lot in common with its present-day relative, the great white shark.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Berwick said the sharks seem to be active in the southern parts of the Long Island Sound, and on occasion, great white sharks have been seen in the area, too.
    Cortney Moore, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In the clip, three orcas surround a great white shark, with two whales framing the shark and the other biting the shark from below.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The footage shows Sophia, the leader of a killer whale pod, spotting a swimming great white shark and body-slamming into the predator.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In 1966, Ron Taylor shot the first ever film of a great white shark and his career quickly began to take off.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 23 July 2021

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