How to Use nurse shark in a Sentence

nurse shark

noun
  • The nurse shark was stuck to the reef by a large fishing hook.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 July 2023
  • The nurse shark took the speared fish then swam away with it in its mouth.
    John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The nurse shark rests below, and the osprey scouts from above.
    National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The first catch is a two-meter-long, sandy-brown nurse shark.
    Brian Owens, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The small shark seemed to be about a foot-long and possibly may have been a blacktip or a nurse shark.
    Johnny Diaz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 May 2018
  • Check out the surprise and very rare nurse shark bite in the video and don’t forget the volume to hear the crunchhhh.
    Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The trip is spent searching out tiger, hammerhead, reef and nurse sharks, so the fish can be tagged and released.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
  • Of the15 species identified, the most common by far was the nurse shark, followed by the blacktip, lemon and bull shark.
    David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 23 June 2021
  • Holland says the nurse shark is known for two things: laziness and friendliness.
    Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 26 July 2019
  • Yellowtail snapper, parrot fish, a nurse shark, and giant pink conch all thrive in the area’s coral reef.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2018
  • When a diver speared a lionfish that sought refuge under a coral head, a small nurse shark appeared.
    John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The water is glass-clear – enough so that a snorkeler can clearly see a nurse shark gliding by the shipwreck some 40 feet below.
    Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Her friends had gathered at the back of the boat in late May, tossing bits of fish to a group of tawny nurse sharks in the water, Brunning told the West Australian newspaper.
    Avi Selk, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • There are sand tiger sharks with fearsome teeth, sandbar sharks with tall dorsal fins and nurse sharks huddled together on the floor of the tank.
    Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • Water activities are the name of the game here: Snorkel among nurse sharks and stingrays or scuba dive in the underwater caves of Blue Hole.
    Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Four shark species, included sandbar sharks, sand tiger sharks, lemon sharks and nurse sharks, can be spotted in the shark exhibit.
    Kimi Robinson, azcentral, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Efforts to protect the shark's habitat will hopefully bring a happy ending to a decades-long struggle for the grey nurse sharks.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Once disturbed a nurse shark will bolt away, a dangerous predicament if a diver is in the way and gets pushed aside by an excited fish.
    John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Sea Life is home to six shark species: nurse shark, epaulette shark, zebra shark, blacktip reef sharks, coral catsharks and whitespotted bamboo sharks.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 8 July 2021
  • With a menacing grin, needle-like teeth, and a sharp pointed snout, a gray nurse shark isn’t a creature that most people would want to encounter.
    Nell Lewis; Video By Angus Watson, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Other animals on the premises include nurse sharks, sting rays, and Green Sea turtles (oh, my).
    Melissa Minton, Teen Vogue, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The shark menu for gators includes the big but docile nurse shark, the yellow-hued lemon shark, which are about 11 feet at adulthood, and the bonnethead, a type of hammerhead shark that grows to about five feet.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Youngsters will love interacting with horseshoe crabs and starfish in the Tide Pool Touch Tank, petting the baby stingrays or even feeding the adult nurse sharks.
    Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The most challenging catch of the day was an ample 6-foot nurse shark that Macdonald estimated to weigh 200 pounds.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The aquarium is home to grey reef shark, nurse sharks, blacktip reef shark and a group of baby coral catsharks, a recent addition.
    Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 July 2018
  • Nobody really needs to go falconing in Mongolia or ride on the back of a nurse shark in Alaska for their life to be complete.
    Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • No fatalities were reported in the next five species of biting sharks: blacktip reef shark, nurse shark, spinner shark, the bronze whaler and the lemon shark, according to the file.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • Melissa Brunning was in northwestern Australia on a a friend's yacht when a group of nurse sharks began hanging out around the boat, according to Perth Now.
    Scott Berson, miamiherald, 2 July 2018
  • Melissa Brunning was on vacation at Dugong Bay last month in northwest Australia and was taking part in a feeding of tawney nurse sharks.
    Natalie Dreier, ajc, 2 July 2018
  • In 1995, Flajnik and colleagues fished an unconventional antibody out of blood from a nurse shark.
    Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018

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