How to Use cartilaginous in a Sentence

cartilaginous

adjective

• But these massive cartilaginous critters are not the largest fish to ever glide through the ocean.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018
• Beneath their main tongue is a piece of cartilaginous flesh that's thought to aid grooming.
  — National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
• Whale sharks, which are cartilaginous, weigh about 11 tons, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• Strips of black fungus trailed out of the meatballs, giving them a cartilaginous crunch.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• In lieu of scales, bony plates called scutes cover the sturgeon’s cartilaginous bodies.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 6 Feb. 2017
• In lieu of scales, bony plates called scutes cover the sturgeon’s cartilaginous bodies.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 6 Feb. 2017
• Ordinarily, a frog that’s lost a leg will regrow a cartilaginous spike in its place.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• And while fossilized shark skeletons are hard to come by due to their cartilaginous skeletons, their teeth and dermal denticles (scales) are a bit more common.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• All that protects us from aspirating is a thin, cartilaginous flap of tissue called the epiglottis.
  — Douglas Jacobs, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Many of these cartilaginous swimmers eat fish, crustaceans, mollusks, plankton, krill, marine mammals, and other sharks—in short, humans are not on the menu.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The presence of shark relatives at the site suggests that the split between cartilaginous and bony fish had already occurred by the early Silurian, Dr. Friedman said.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• The pasta’s quill-like form and perpendicular ridges are said to resemble the cartilaginous rings in a chicken’s trachea.
  — AJC.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• More than 90 percent of all fish are bony fish; the category excludes rays, sharks and other marine wildlife with cartilaginous skeletons.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• That excess was absorbed into the ocean and taken up by everything in the food web—including cartilaginous whale shark skeletons.
  — National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2020
• Enter the panda’s pseudo-thumb, which is also composed of an enlarged radial sesamoid and cartilaginous extension, and is controlled by the same three muscles as in the aye-aye.
  — National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
• The researchers used a megalodon vertebral column from Belgium, a tooth from the United States, and the chondrocranium – the cartilaginous equivalent of a skull – from a great white shark to build their 3D skeleton.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
• Joining sharks and rays in the elasmobranch clan, sawfish are built over a cartilaginous frame that works in concert with a low profile and flat belly to allow efficient movement through whisper-thin depths.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2019
• The fish do not have bones but instead are cartilaginous, meaning their bodies are riddled with stiff armor-like plates and bone-like cartilage, Gizmodo reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
• The cartilaginous ridges, troughs and protuberances of the outer ear also alter sound before it is transduced into nerve signals.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Our preliminary hypothesis is that the creatures were green or blue, with long cartilaginous beaks.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2017
• Also unlike mammals, the upper esophagus is not circled by cartilaginous rings, which explains how birds swallow whole, live fish with ease.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2015
• Those sandwiches, with their rib-sticking meatiness and gentle cartilaginous crunch, fed the Freedom Riders, fed blues musicians, and have been feeding this neighborhood ever since.
  — Matt Goulding, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020
• The answers include cartilaginous structures that supported gills and a possible ancestor to what became our lower jaw.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
• In the spaces between these near-angelic digital beings, in the spaces behind them, the unreality comes trickling in—through holes and portals and cartilaginous tubes of nothingness.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• These creatures don't leave behind bones, but rather calcified fragments of their cartilaginous vertebrae and an occasional tooth.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Frogs that did not receive the progesterone treatment developed cartilaginous spikes at the amputation site, whereas ones that wore the hormone delivering bioreactor for one day regrew a paddle-shaped appendage.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
• These aquatic, semi-aquatic or terrestrial creatures are recognizable thanks to their bony, cartilaginous shells.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 17 July 2022
• That's right—the cartilaginous creature in question, now called Helicoprion, was extinct before dinosaurs ever existed.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
• Recent investigations into shark vision have expanded scientists’ understanding of how the cartilaginous predators see their environment: probably in grayscale and with a minimal ability to see detail.
  — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024