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How to use the word jellyfish in a Sentence?

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We've seen plenty of jellyfish like The Portuguese man-of-war, but never this animal.

San Antonio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Hunter loves sea creatures and thought he had found a blue button jellyfish, after they picked it up in a beach toy he proclaimed to me that he had discovered a new species !

Trey Lane

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The structure of PPE will make it particularly hazardous for marine life, gloves, like plastic bags, can appear to be jellyfish or other types of foods for sea turtles, for example. The straps on masks can present entangling hazards.

John Hocevar

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jellyfish have existed for over 500 million years, and over that time, their body structure has remained largely unchanged, so it's interesting to figure out what makes them so special and how we can learn from them, because we use animals with natural swimming motions, the hope is that they won't disturb the environment in the same way that a submarine might, so we can expand the types of environments we can monitor.

Nicole Xu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Care is taken not to harm the jellyfish.

John Dabiri

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Maybe they should consider signs warning people about this at Coquina Beach, they warn people about jellyfish, and I've never heard of people dying from those.

Wade Fleming

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We studied the biggest, most venomous and scary one, our drug works on the big beast. We don't know yet if it works on other jellyfish, but we know it works on the most-deadly one.

Greg Neely

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It was pretty incredible and really hard to describe, it almost looked like a load of muscles contracting. It was clear the creature, which Dickinson later discovered was alion's mane jellyfish— the largest species of jellyfish in the world— wasn't dead. It's alive, Dickinson's son confirmed. The family stared at the jellyfish, and sure enough, it continued to move.

Adam Dickinson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Plastic bags look very similar to a jellyfish in the water and jellyfish is a thing that all sea turtles love to eat.

Kathy Townsend

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When conditions are right for them to make jellies, they produce the jellyfish in vast quantities, people have studied the jellyfish in certain areas quite well and there are instances where it does look like there’s one particular region is having greater numbers of jellyfish. In the literature sometimes people describe it as a global phenomenon and on that we’re just not sure.

Allen Collins

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

That's the good news. The bad news is every single time( Milos Raonic steps) it literally feels like Milos Raonic's stepping on a tack or jellyfish, is the equivalent, milos Raonic is trying to get ready to play the French Open.

Austin Nunn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

John B. Evans

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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