How to Use box jellyfish in a Sentence

box jellyfish

noun

• One of the deadliest venoms in the world can be found in the flimsy tentacles of this box jellyfish.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2015
• You’ve written about the box jellyfish sting, for instance.
  — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
• Some jellyfish, like the deadly box jellyfish, use toxins that punch holes in skin, blood, and nerve cells alike.
  — National Geographic, 28 June 2018
• The humble box jellyfish, which has wandered the ocean for at least 500 million years, can kill a human in five minutes flat.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• The box jellyfish grazed my thigh first, before wrapping itself around Sean’s legs below me.
  — Shannon Leone Fowler, The Cut, 31 Aug. 2017
• The beach is home to venomous spiders, snakes, white pointer sharks, crocodiles, and lethal box jellyfish.
  — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 16 Aug. 2023
• If a human is stung by a box jellyfish, the venom will cause paralysis, cardiac arrest, and death.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2021
• The excruciatingly painful sting of a box jellyfish, which can kill a person in under a minute.
  — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
• Stings by certain species of box jellyfish, including Irukandji species, have caused deaths in the Indo-Pacific.
  — Michele Chabin, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
• Scientist gets stung by box jellyfish, recovers after days in pain, then finds a treatment.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2012
• In two separate studies published in the journal Toxins, researchers looked at treatments for both the box jellyfish (some species of which can be fatal in severe cases) and the Portuguese man-of-war.
  — Ilima Loomis, Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
• The analogy here is if Trump argued for the eradication of sharks because of the number of people killed at American beaches — but never talked about the number killed by the box jellyfish.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
• Not only that, but box jellyfish also distinguish themselves from other species by using sight to keep from bumping into obstacles on the ocean floor.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• The jellyfish’s sting won’t hurt at first, but 4 to 48 hours later, the venom from these tiny jellies—a species of box jellyfish—can cause a syndrome characterized by feelings of impending doom and life-threatening spikes in blood pressure.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
• The animal has a mix of features seen among modern jellies, its body roughly resembling today’s infamous box jellyfish while the tentacles look like those of moon jellies.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• The area is heavily populated with crocodiles, sharks, and deadly box jellyfish.
  — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 22 Apr. 2023
• The area is heavily populated with crocodiles, sharks, and deadly box jellyfish.
  — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 16 Aug. 2023
• Even though we’re separated by millions of years of evolution, box jellyfish and back-boned animals have evolved eyes by independently recruiting the same building blocks.
  — Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
• Poisonous Caribbean box jellyfish can learn at a far more complex level than ever imagined, despite only having 1,000 nerve cells and no centralized brain, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• In unregulated economies, children are sometimes deputized to harvest box jellyfish for diners.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Fortunately, avoiding box jellyfish is pretty straightforward.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024