How to Use guppy in a Sentence

guppy

noun

• The hatchlings are currently enjoying a private habitat and eating guppies and minnows, Foster said.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• But with Freeze, the Rebels would have stood more of a chance than a guppy against a shark.
  — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 28 Sep. 2017
• Anyone with the sense of a guppy knew Phelps was dead meat.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 July 2017
• Girls whiptail from three corners like guppies fighting for the last crumb at the top of a fish tank.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• It’s called Sea Wolf and looks like a bloated metallic guppy.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2016
• The Newington Sphinx Shriners darted about in their miniature cars and red fezzes like guppies in a pond.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• In the wild, females of P. reticulata (the Trinidadian guppy) swim in small groups called shoals.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2011
• In November, Xerox made a guppy-devours-the-whale bid to buy HP, an offer now set at $35 billion.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
• Because of the bay’s world-class beauty as a tourist destination, some who don’t know a halibut from a guppy will often come aboard for the boat ride and a chance to catch a fish.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2021
• And of course, the Judases formerly known as the San Diego Chargers, were guppies, or anchovies, or sardines.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The Jazz, inside of a few possessions, finishing up the third quarter straight ahead into and through the fourth, transformed from a guppy into a Great White.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• This behavior occurs across a range of animals, from guppies to gazelles.
  — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• However, the fish kept its common name as guppy until today.
  — Michael Ohl, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• The rebranding comes three years after Daddies bought the remnants of the larger company from Foot Locker -- a deal that has been likened to a guppy swallowing a whale.
  — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 29 July 2017
• As a kid, Roland Radinski made money by breeding and selling fancy guppies.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2019
• Decades ago, researchers seeded the headwaters of two streams in the mountainous country with guppies taken from a distant habitat.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 July 2019
• According to the report, NASA also infused moon dust into water for aquatic species like brown and pink shrimp, oysters, as well as guppies and minnows.
  — Matt McNulty, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2019
• Their ability to discriminate numbers is on par with African grey parrots, dolphins and guppies, among others, Howard wrote.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• Researchers have always wondered whether the females had a way to get rid of some of this sperm after mating, similar to methods used by species including scorpionflies and guppies.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• Free of charge, mosquito control workers provide guppies that are placed in small ponds, rain barrels or other contained bodies of water on people's properties.
  — Casey Smith, Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2019
• Now, Hendry and colleagues have updated and expanded the original data set with more than 5,000 additional examples: everything from the cranial depth of the common chaffinch to the lifespan of the Trinidadian guppy.
  — Amit Katwala, Wired, 4 Feb. 2022
• Birds were represented by Japanese quail; brown shrimp, pink shrimp and oysters were used to represent shellfish; houseflies and moths joined the cockroaches to represent insects; and guppies and minnows were used to represent fish.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 29 July 2019
• Because these consumers -- who can individually bet between $1 million and $20 million over the course of a weekend, according to industry estimates -- often have more impact on the bottom line than a floor full of slot machine-playing guppies.
  — Thomas Hesse, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024