How to Use white shark in a Sentence

white shark

noun
  • The first white shark of the summer was tagged last month off of Chatham.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The first white shark of the 2022 season has been tagged off Cape Cod.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 July 2022
  • Error 0: The white sharks tend to feed along the eastern seaboard.
    Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2020
  • This is the third white shark Chisholm has made a record of this spring off the New Jersey coast.
    Dan Radel, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • In 2017, five white sharks were found beached on South Africa’s Western Cape.
    National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • In the white sharks’ absence, South Africa’s west coast is changing.
    David Shiffman, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This was all captured from the perspective of a white shark!
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • In the past five years, around 300 white sharks have been identified by researchers along the coast of Cape Cod.
    Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • And then, on cue, a massive white shark swims up and commences to dining.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • Somewhere not far from the shore swims a group of five or more juvenile white sharks.
    Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Two other white sharks were also tracked in the Gulf during 2019.
    Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2020
  • And both of these species are about as different from a white shark as a dog is from a kangaroo.
    Gavin Naylor, The Conversation, 25 July 2019
  • Dozens of white shark sightings have been reported in the area in the past week – some of them known to the conservancy.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 30 July 2022
  • The shark was likely a white shark, Tiffany Boothe, of Seaside Aquarium, added.
    al, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Last week, researchers tagged a 12-foot white shark in waters off Chatham’s Monomoy Island.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
  • Alerts are issued when a white shark sighting is confirmed close to a public beach.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The Tracker is extremely active right now with 7 white sharks pinging in over the last 2 days.
    David Williams, CNN, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Keenan’s white shark is not the only one in South Florida waters.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The white shark, for example, is bouncing back off the U.S. east and west coasts because of that kind of protection.
    Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The shark that Starboard took down solo was an 8.2-foot juvenile white shark.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Trump, of course, moves ever forward, a white shark leading a white movement.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • For the first time, beaches in New York's Nassau County will fly a purple and white shark warning flag.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Two whales were clearly visible on the surface as a third emerged from the depths, pushing a white shark that appeared to be dead.
    Rachel Pannett, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Lowe and other shark scientists trace the white shark resurgence to those measures.
    Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
  • At other white shark hot spots around the world there is always a kill zone — a place where more predation events occur.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 July 2019
  • The Cape Cod National Seashore, for one, flies a purple flag with a white shark on it to warn beachgoers of their presence.
    Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The fauna is more dangerous, because there are a lot of tiger, bull and white sharks, which are very aggressive.
    Luis F. Sánchez, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The state gave the program $3.75 million to look into the increase in white sharks along the California coastline.
    Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The agency's tracking tool shows four white sharks off the northeastern coast and two more swimming in the southwest ocean region.
    Elizabeth Wolfe and Brian Ries, CNN, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Great white shark kills Sydney swimmer in 'chilling' attack, city's first in decades.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022

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