How to Use barracuda in a Sentence

barracuda

noun

• The company's lawyers are a bunch of barracudas.
• The reef surrounding the beaches is home to schools of fish (like barracuda and snapper), turtles, and even whale sharks.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
• Divers often get a chance to see sharks and schools of barracuda.
  — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• Or lean over the rail and count needlefish, barracuda, and the odd tarpon.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• The menu features the catch of the day — think wahoo, snapper, or my favorite, barracuda.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Photos of them adorn the walls of Jesse’s room, as does a toothy replica of the VW-long barracuda, which still scares the pants off visitors.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• Guests adore the fresh seafood (seacat, barracuda, mahi mahi, tuna), local fruits, rum sours, and the scenery.
  — Dwight Brown, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
• Watch Hoover catch a barracuda while aboard a boat in Florida.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• Watch Hoover catch a barracuda while aboard a boat in Florida.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• This plentiful habitat is a lure for the great barracuda, a long tubular fish that can grow to be 6 feet long.
  — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Pair with a fried fish with character—such as barracuda, or a shrimp and lime platter.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
• Novice and experienced surfers can catch waves along the rocky shores of Lorne Point, while the pier is a good place to drop a line for trevally or barracuda.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
• The transition before them was daunting enough—and then along came the barracuda.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 12 May 2011
• By day guests can prowl the flats between Harbour Island and North Eleuthera for hard-fighting bonefish and barracuda—or snorkel, dive, sail, or kitesurf.
  — Darrell Hartman, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
• When the sun rises, the place is peaceful, as the lagoon laps at its mangrove forest and barracuda, snapper and grouper enjoy the solitude.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, scuba-divers head to the Throne Room, where a large 50-foot wide cave unveils coral reef and an array of sting rays, snappers, barracuda, turtles, and eels.
  — Kate Donnelly, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
• Satoumi An is a tidy and humble ama hut where divers grill all manner of seafood—barracuda, Ise-ebi, scallops, squid, turban snails, and uni—over a fire pit.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
• Instead of Alaskan king crab, Josh and his crew will be on the hunt for the lucrative ahi tuna as well as other underwater species like barracuda and swordfish.
  — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2020
• No need to tip the hooks with squid or shrimp, but get your baits aboard quickly, as opportunistic king mackerel and barracuda love helping themselves to an easy meal.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 7 Mar. 2024
• On some atolls there, live coral covers 70% of the reef’s surface; on others, big fish such as grouper and barracuda that have almost disappeared elsewhere are thriving.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 Dec. 2019
• Uncrowded above the waves, down under is busy with a kaleidoscope of barracuda, parrotfish and squid that hang out towards the inlet.
  — Melanie Refffes, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
• A half-shark, half-octopus battles a half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Baby barracuda seek shelter in mangrove roots while the larger ones swim the shallow waters nearby.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• But kin selection couldn’t explain why a fish such as the cleaner wrasse can pick parasites from the teeth of a barracuda with almost no risk of becoming a meal itself.
  — Ben Crair, Bloomberg.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• The local cuisine is also a highlight, with fresh seafood like rockfish and barracuda, São Jorge cheese, and sweet pastries like filhóses to tantalize the taste buds.
  — Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• At sunset, cocktail crowds fill the open-air Yellowfin Bar & Grill, decorated with an entertaining mural of Keys icons, from six-toed cats to barracuda.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• Above, unloading the catch that includes tuna, barracuda, sailfish and kingfish.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• Another one involves an accident with a woodchipper; that one comes courtesy of a barracuda that Benzène has caught for dinner.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2023
• On the shallow flats, bonefish, sharks, permits and tarpon can be targeted and over the grass flats and basins around the islands sea trout, redfish, pompano, Spanish mackerel, barracudas and jacks are available.
  — Alan Sherman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• These scaly sea fauna, including groupers, snappers and barracuda, tend to produce more phosphorus than small fish, meaning that removing them from the reef can cause a harmful shift in the ratio of nutrients in the water.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2016

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024