How to Use great white shark in a Sentence

great white shark

noun
  • Which means for now, the great white shark rules the 'Ring.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Excuse the mixed metaphor, but the Viper feels like a great white shark on the road.
    WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
  • That’s nearly three times the length of a great white shark.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Yes, that is a great white shark popping out of the ocean.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • And one pro surfer's very close call with a great white shark.
    NBC News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • That's about two to three times the size of today's great white shark.
    Maddie Burakoff, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But what of the great white sharks’ new home farther east?
    David Shiffman, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But, the great white shark can't be ruled out as a suspect.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • In the span of one week at the end of June, researchers spotted 12 great white sharks near the bay.
    Scottie Andrew and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 21 July 2019
  • The Gulf of Mexico is now home to a new great white shark.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Just feet away from the camera is a great white shark about to breach the surface.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2020
  • In the past week, at least 12 great white sharks were spotted in Cape Cod Bay.
    CBS News, 3 July 2019
  • Besides, who wouldn’t want to watch a great white shark’s home movies?
    Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
  • The group spotted a great white shark swimming close to their boat.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Ocean images may be first of newborn great white shark in the wild.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There's a great white shark making his rounds along the Atlantic seaboard.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • Killer whales are stronger, bigger, smarter, and can swim faster than great white sharks.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2024
  • Compared to the megalodon, the model of the modern-day great white shark seems puny.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 July 2019
  • This great white shark circled Chip Michalove's boat for about 45 mins.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The Times reported that is was believed to be a large great white shark.
    Fox News, 8 Sep. 2020
  • New drone footage appears to show the first time a newborn great white shark has been spotted in the wild.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The sort of tumor found in a great white shark turns out to have been reported in sharks for decades.
    Andrew Karam, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2016
  • Australia is home to large seal colonies—and many great white sharks that pursue them.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Believed to be the largest great white shark in the world, Deep Blue, measures almost 21 feet long and over 2 and a half tons.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 July 2019
  • In False Bay, other shark species are already moving in to fill the niche left by the great white sharks.
    Linda Nordling, Science | AAAS, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Jim Cocci of Viera named a great white shark after his wife, Colleen.
    Grace Pateras, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Adult great white sharks are gray on top and white underneath.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Shallows’ starred Blake Lively as a surfer who battles a great white shark.
    Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • Ryder Dodd of JSerra rises from the pool like a great white shark flying out of the ocean.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As a result, the modern great white shark has traditionally been used as a model for the body form of the Megalodon in previous studies.
    Rick Sobey, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2024

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