How to Use bull shark in a Sentence
bull shark
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The full episode will include floods, bull sharks and big cats.
—Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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But few can honestly boast about the HALF of the big one that got away, thanks to a bull shark.
—Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2019
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Once that happens, the bull shark pulls an abrupt U-turn and charts a wide course around the massive croc.
—Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 27 July 2023
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But the bull shark, along with the tiger shark and the great white, is among the species considered most dangerous.
—Aric Chokey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2017
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The top bull shark of the rodeo was a 434.2-pounder weighed in by Eric Vandrlessche.
—al, 21 July 2022
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The minimum size for a bull shark and a spinner is 64 inches.
—Priscilla Aguirre, Chron, 15 July 2021
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Of the15 species identified, the most common by far was the nurse shark, followed by the blacktip, lemon and bull shark.
—David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 23 June 2021
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It's believed he was attacked by a bull shark or tiger shark, reported the New York Post.
—Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 17 Apr. 2018
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Did a bull shark swim miles of freshwater to reach the heart of Liberty County?
—Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2017
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The Mancin shark is an ancient ancestor to modern bull sharks.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 23 Dec. 2019
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The family believes the predator was a bull shark, Reeder added.
—Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2022
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The sharks are often mistaken for bull sharks, say experts.
—Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 23 Apr. 2018
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Berry may have been killed by a bull shark, but officials have not yet publicly identified the species that was involved.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
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That's troubling news for humans, as bull sharks can grow to more than 10 and a half feet in length and are known to attack large prey, including humans.
—Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 16 Apr. 2018
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This week, the startling image of a 1,000 pound bull shark has been circulating the internets.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2012
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In the video that was shared to Instagram on July 24, a bull shark attacks a fishing boat while the anglers onboard fish for cobia.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2023
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An 11-year-old whose leg was amputated below the knee after a bull shark attack is on the road to recovery — and hopes to return to the ocean.
—Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022
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As airmen tried to rescue the passengers, one airman noticed a circling bull shark that appeared to be 10 to 12 feet in length.
—Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2022
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In 2009, he was attacked by a nine-foot bull shark in Sydney Harbor while working as an Australian Navy diver.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 23 July 2018
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Sharks were a hot topic, too, with my posts on the myth of bull shark testosterone and how shark populations are dwindling drawing in a lot of readers.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2012
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Bats, bull sharks, lions and langurs are getting roped into the quest to create live television events.
—John Jurgensen, WSJ, 5 July 2017
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The sheriff’s office said that witnesses reported seeing a bull shark in the area, and that the one that attacked Eddy was between 8 and 10 feet long.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2020
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The tiger shark and bull shark are genetically as different from each other as a dog is from a rabbit.
—Gavin Naylor, The Conversation, 25 July 2019
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The bull shark, a fearsome predator that could kill you with a single bite, turns out to be the fourth-most abundant shark species in South Florida, according to a new study of the region’s sharks.
—David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 23 June 2021
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Analysis of her wounds confirmed to experts that a bull shark was responsible for the attack.
—USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
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And in Illinois, newspapers reported a boy was bitten by a bull shark while swimming in Lake Michigan in 1955.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2021
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Off the coast of Florida, Neil Hammerschlag, a marine ecologist, caught a bull shark more than 10 feet in length and weighing more than half a ton and has tracked it for more than nine years.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
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Skippings said the woman’s family identified it as a bull shark.
—Dánica Coto, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
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Australian waters also have the three shark species that account for the majority of fatal shark attacks: tiger sharks, bull sharks, and great white sharks.
—Jeremy Hsu, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
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The family believes an 8-foot bull shark attacked and bit Jameson below his knee, Reeder wrote.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
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