How to Use invertebrate in a Sentence

invertebrate

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• Warmer, more acidic waters may also produce less of the invertebrate prey the whales prefer.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
• In the wild, these slugs are known to feed on hydroids, an invertebrate marine organism.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Nov. 2017
• With their keen vision and deadly-accurate pounce, jumping spiders are the cats of the invertebrate world.
  — Sciencenow, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2012
• Foodies from other parts of Chile and beyond come to sample the native potatoes with oysters, king crabs and piure (a type of marine invertebrate) fresh from the sea.
  — Mark Johanson, The Economist, 28 Aug. 2020
• On these lands, the general public are allowed to collect small amounts of plant and invertebrate fossils, says Polly.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
• Perhaps this creature climbed through ancient forests, looking for invertebrate morsels to eat.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2021
• Over the decades, invertebrate experts have disturbed dozens of types of mantises, bugging them with everything from live lizards to looming black balls.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2020
• Thus far, 11 invertebrate species have been found in Antarctic ecosystems, including springtails, mites, and midges.
  — Priya Shukla, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• These invertebrate meals become harder to find during the cold of winter, which is why the owls commonly migrate south to Mexico.
  — AZCentral.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Scientists have found pieces of leg or an animal’s back, and this latest, largest invertebrate fossil is missing its head and other parts.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
• The lamprey is one of a handful of animals that exist on the boundary between vertebrates and our invertebrate forebears.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
• An outbreak of the spruce worm — an invertebrate pest — in the boreal regions of Canada and northern Minnesota might be attracting the finches, looking for a meal.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
• Over four pounds of that rock went toward studying invertebrate life, exposing insects to the lunar particles by mixing it with their food.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2022
• But recent discoveries of large invertebrate predators have suggested that the oceans were by no means a safe place for small animals.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
• The prevailing view at the time was that invertebrate immune systems were incapable of such discernment.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
• The fiddler crabs are like little invertebrate peacocks.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• The reef will provide habitat for fish, oysters, invertebrate filter feeders and other marine life.
  — baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2017
• But there are also large numbers of small invertebrate animals, including insects, which are the foundations of the ecosystem.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
• But there are also large numbers of small invertebrate animals, including insects, which are the foundations of the ecosystem.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
• Each sphere is teeming with invertebrate life, hosting creatures such as tardigrades, commonly known as water bears.
  — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• Coffin flies usually lay their eggs in decaying vertebrate corpses or feces, but the scent of decaying invertebrate corpses may also attract flies from the genus Megaselia, the researchers explain in a statement.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2021
• Sponge sneezes were first observed in 2014 by a research group led by Sally Leys, an invertebrate zoologist and sponge specialist at the University of Alberta.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2020
• Thermal cameras or x-ray technology used to detect vertebrates doesn’t work for most invertebrate species.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2022
• When the law was updated in 1984 under Gov. George Deukmejian, the reference to invertebrates was removed, but the new law protected the Trinity bristle snail, an invertebrate mollusk that lives on land.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2022
• Fossils reveal when the major types of sound-production—and sound-detection—structures appeared in the forerunners of today’s invertebrate and vertebrate creatures.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
• Octopuses are a specific type of invertebrate called cephalopods.
  — Erin Spencer, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
• Decades of degradation by hikers, motorcyclists, homeless campers and partying had hammered the fish, forcing heaps of gravel off fragile slopes into the creek, snuffing stoneflies and other invertebrate food.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• The rippling became hypnotically regular, from right to left, like an invertebrate sea creature undulating with the waves.
  — Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020
• Luque wasn't initially planning on studying invertebrate fossils; he had been drawn to paleontology by the promise of dinosaurs and ancient mammals.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• Penelas starts the movie as a proto-Clinton charismatic Cuban Democrat and ends it an invertebrate series of aspirational gestures powered by unctuousness.
  — Jeb Lund, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024