How to Use ridley in a Sentence

ridley

noun

• The law’s list of Gulf species harmed by offshore drilling includes Bryde’s and sperm whales, Kemp’s ridley and loggerhead sea turtles, and elkhorn corals, according to the complaint.
  — Christopher Yasiejko, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Recent studies show female Kemp’s ridleys may come back to nest at three-plus-year intervals.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• In 2015, people rescued an olive ridley sea turtle off Costa Rica with a plastic straw stuck up its nose.
  — David Doubilet, National Geographic, 14 May 2016
• An angler in Georgia recently reeled in a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle off a pier in Tybee Island.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
• Mast pointed to Kemp’s ridley sea turtles as a good example of what’s happening, especially in the United States.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
• Leatherbacks and Atlantic hawksbills roam offshore waters, while loggerhead, green, and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles frequent near-shore habitats.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
• Volunteers from the Sea Turtle Patrol spotted two small parallel footprints with a line in the sand between the footprints, all heading inland from the water meant a mother Kemp’s ridley had nested nearby.
  — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 15 May 2018
• This problem primarily affects Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, the smallest and most endangered of all sea turtles.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
• Kemp’s ridley turtles once veered dangerously close to extinction, their numbers decimated by egg harvesting and commercial fishing nets, which entangled the turtles and caused them to drown.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024