How to Use giant squid in a Sentence
giant squid
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In 2012, the first video of a giant squid was filmed in Japan.
—Christopher Brito, CBS News, 24 June 2019
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Nerve cells of the giant squid can reach up to 39 feet long.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2022
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For the first time, a live giant squid had been filmed in U.S. waters.
—The Washington Post, al.com, 24 June 2019
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Footage of a giant squid was captured for the first time in the U.S. near New Orleans.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2019
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Over a decade ago, in 2005, the Smithsonian was on the hunt for a giant squid.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
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The Medusa gets around this problem with its red lights, which giant squid don’t see.
—Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
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Is this the giant squid of the Black Lake finally getting some love?
—Alison Wild, EW.com, 20 June 2019
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Roper still marvels that a giant squid was able to spare him a hefty fine.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
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The giant squid is so elusive that even today sightings make the news.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
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The team had indeed bumped into a giant squid—though this one wasn’t quite so giant.
—Chase Purdy, Quartz, 24 June 2019
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Fairly elusive, the giant squid has been linked to myth since ancient times.
—Fox News, 17 Jan. 2020
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The squid was about 4 meters long, although giant squid can grow as large as 10 meters or more.
—Mark Schrope, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2013
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In fact, just about everything about the giant squid is giant!
—Sean McGowan, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
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What people are talking about A giant squid was captured on video in U.S. waters for the first time.
—Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 24 June 2019
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And with days to go until the end of the two-week expedition, 100 miles southeast of New Orleans, a giant squid took the bait.
—The Washington Post, al.com, 24 June 2019
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One of their theories is that great whites may be hunting giant squid in the deep water.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
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Last month, a nearly 14-foot giant squid arrived on a South African beach in its death throes, still spewing ink.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
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The album features an orca that never sleeps, a giant squid that lives at the bottom of the ocean, seagull men, etc.
—Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2018
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In the shadowy depths of the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii, a shark battled what may have been a giant squid—and lived to tell scientists about it.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
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The footage shows the giant squid stalking the e-jelly, and wrapping its tentacles around it before pulling away.
—Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 24 June 2019
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Children, armed with a mission logbook, will help OceanX crew members search for a giant squid.
—Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 25 June 2021
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The discovery marks the first time that a living giant squid has been filmed in American waters.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
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And thus America perished, by the evil actions of a few, by the inaction of the many, and by the worldwide conspiracy of the giant squid.
—Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
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Widder and her Medusa device captured the first video of giant squid several years ago near Japan.
—Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2019
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Yosuke Tanaka encountered an 8-foot-long giant squid while diving with his wife off the western coast of Japan.
—CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
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Some of the squids remain unidentified and could be new species not yet described, but at least one of the attacks came from the famed giant squid, Architeuthis dux.
—Mike Wehner, BGR, 13 May 2021
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Days before, the giant squid probably had been swimming and searching for food.
—Heather Djunga, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
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Very few people have successfully measured the eye of a giant squid.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2012
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Her favorite topics include, but are not limited to: the giant squid, punk rock, and robotics.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
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It is fixed in place, but instead of the usual metal claw wields a gripper covered with vacuum suckers reminiscent of a giant squid.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 26 June 2023
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