How to Use electric eel in a Sentence

electric eel

noun

• Who wins when an electric eel goes up against a human's arm in the lab?
  — National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Neon art flickers on the walls like electric eels swimming in the distance.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• Scientists long thought the electric eels found in swamps, streams, creeks and rivers across South America were all the same species.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• In the murky freshwater rivers and streams that snake across the Amazon lurks an eight-foot fascination: the electric eel.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• The post included a throwaway line about how the aquarium vets also had the lowdown on how to give an electric eel an MRI.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
• The ridiculous 15-minute scene also involved puppeteers who made an electric eel appear to speak.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 May 2022
• Scientists have long assumed there was only one species of electric eel.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2019
• But even now, the electric eel isn’t done inspiring scientists.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2017
• De Santana and the team collected more than 100 electric eel specimens to make their hypothesis about the three species.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2018
• These shocks were nearly ten times as powerful as a taser, and electric eels can get much larger in size with even more powerful shocks that can be lethal to animals.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• Most people would do everything possible to avoid getting zapped by an electric eel.
  — National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2017
• The organ within the electric eel is a series of ionized tissue layers that can produce an electric charge when excited.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2017
• When, through the nighttime murk of the Amazon River, an electric eel locates a feeder fish, what happens next is instantaneous: A jolt of electricity surges through the fish’s nerves.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2019
• While 250 species of fish in South America generate electricity, only electric eels use it to stun prey and for self-protection.
  — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2019
• The electrocytes of an electric eel are large and flat, with hundreds stacked together horizontally.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2018
• Both continents are home to fish that can talk to each other using electric fields: the elephantfishes of Africa, and the knifefishes of South America (including the famous electric eel).
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
• Essentially, that would turn humans into something closer to an electric eel.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2017
• Researchers had previously identified only one species of electric eel in more than 250 years of studying the creatures that lurk in South American waters and stun their prey with electric discharges.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2018
• Plants and animals featured in the exhibit include: Venus fly traps, pitcher plants, the panther chameleon, naked mole rats, leaf-cutter ants, electric eels, and the giant Pacific octopus, among others.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Just one, the ability to use electrical currents for communication and hunting—think electric eels—happened first, and only, in water.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 11 Oct. 2017
• Since their discovery more than 250 years ago by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, researchers have thought the electric eel was a one-of-a-kind phenomenon, with only one species, Electrophorus electricus.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• Few people would consider willingly getting shocked by an electric eel, but one bold biologist subjected himself repeatedly to the zaps in the name of science.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• In September, a study in the journal Nature Communications concluded that the electric eel should be divided into three separate species.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Dec. 2019
• Scientists now know the electrochemical reactions between dissimilar materials that Volta discovered have nothing to do with the way an electric eel generates its electricity.
  — Timothy J. Jorgensen, The Conversation, 9 May 2022

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024