How to Use blue shark in a Sentence
blue shark
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Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick.
—Brian Skerry, National Geographic, 31 July 2020
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The police in Valencia, Spain, saw a blue shark dying in the surf along a tiny stretch of beach.
—Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
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In the case of this large thresher in Libya, the female shark was lanced straight through the heart, and a blue shark found in 2016 off the coast of Spain had been stabbed in the brain.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
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For example, the blue shark will dive more than a thousand feet during the day but return to the surface to spend the night.
—Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Nov. 2019
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About 5 miles or more offshore, blue sharks are very common this time of year, said Skomal.
—Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
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Martin Yelland, 38, was diving just off the coast of Penzance when the blue shark — a species that can grow to be 13 feet long — swam straight towards him.
—People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
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Reports suggest that the woman may have been on a blue shark spotting snorkeling trip when the incident took place.
—Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022
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The blue shark is highly migratory and tends to move toward the north Atlantic during the summer months and toward the south Atlantic during the winter.
—Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, 26 July 2018
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The same type of blue shark was also responsible for a similar panic on the other side of the island last year, The Telepgraph reported.
—Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
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Leopard, mako and blue sharks have attacked humans in California as well.
—Allen Kim, CNN, 23 Dec. 2019
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Oregon's Department of Fish & Wildlife lists the salmon shark, spiny dogfish, soupfin shark, common thresher shark, basking shark, blue shark as native to its coastal waters, among others.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2021
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With fun prints like red apples and blue sharks, these 100 percent recyclable and compostable lunch bags have an adhesive strip that allows you to seal in sandwiches and other food items to keep them fresh.
—NBC News, 6 Sep. 2019
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Footage taken by lifeguards at Cala Domingos beach shows the shark — later determined to be a 10-foot blue shark — swim toward the shore as panicked onlookers gather and watch from nearby rocks.
—Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature designated the short fin mako as endangered, the great white, porbeagle and common thresher as vulnerable and the blue shark as near threatened.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
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Tracking a wide range of species — blue shark, tiger shark, shortfin mako, great hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead, porbeagle, and dusky shark — the researchers sought to visualize all the human infrastructure that sharks must navigate.
—Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, 26 July 2018
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