How to Use green turtle in a Sentence

green turtle

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• Visitors to the Clearwater aquarium watched the light green turtle with a healing shell swim happily with its peers.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
• The green turtle starts is life cycle as an egg on the beach.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 11 June 2020
• The study came on the back of finding dead green turtles on the beaches in Cyprus.
  — Fox News, 10 Aug. 2019
• Loggerheads have laid only eight new nests at the refuge since the storm, while green turtles have laid 466.
  — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• But one Gage & Tollner dish that will not be offered is green turtle soup.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
• For the final experiment, the researchers dug up more green turtle eggs from a beach in Malaysia.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2016
• Denisse Holzhauer created an image of what appeared to be a green turtle on the youngster’s face.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• Leatherbacks and loggerheads held their own, and green turtles are almost at record-high levels.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• That day, Bakari ran around the public fountain’s sculptures — a light blue whale and a yellow-and-green turtle — as a faux palm tree sprinkled water over his head.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
• Hawksbill and green turtles tend to nest at higher elevations closer to dunes and steep cliffs, the researchers said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The giant green turtle has a zippered opening, and is filled with 60 colorful plastic balls.
  — Anna Lane, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2019
• The return of loggerheads is impressive, but the green turtle revival is even more mind-blowing.
  — Gabe Andrews, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2022
• The greatest boost was among green turtles in the southwest Indian Ocean, where numbers have increased an average of 18% per year.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 20 Sep. 2017
• Every year, about this time, green turtles begin arriving on beaches all across the Persian Gulf.
  — National Geographic, 16 June 2018
• This coral atoll, one of the world’s largest, is home to the only wild population of the Aldabra giant tortoise, and is a crucial nesting site for the vulnerable green turtle.
  — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2021
• On a Texas beach, a dead green turtle was found with a disposable cup stuck to a flipper, preventing it from swimming properly.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• Ten of the 12 are green turtles, along with one loggerhead and one endangered Kemp’s Ridley turtle.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
• There are three species of sea turtles that nest on South Florida beaches: green turtles, leatherbacks and loggerheads, with the latter being the most common in the region.
  — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• The team received tracking data for five other decoys, three of which had been hidden in olive ridley nests and two of which had been concealed in green turtle nests.
  — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2020
• The researchers started with clutches of green turtle eggs collected in Queensland.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2016
• For years, researchers in Australia have struggled to accurately count thousands of green sea turtles that come to Raine Island, the largest green turtle rookery in the world.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2020
• In addition to being awarded the Silver Star for valor in Afghanistan and serving in the military for more than 25 years, Spark also is a tattoo artist and is working to save green turtles.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2019
• Anyone serving green turtle soup today would be committing a felony.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• This instantly recognizable smiling green turtle sandbox is a fast friend to the youngest customers.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
• Hawaii’s green turtles, long in trouble, are rebounding far faster than anyone expected.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• In the past decade, alarming mass die-offs have hit sea turtle populations in the Great Barrier Reef, specifically the endangered green turtle species — and no one could figure out why.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
• Use an underwater camera to capture images of intricate corals and vibrant marine life— from swirling schools of jacks to swimming green turtles.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The paucity of green sea turtles in Texas waters, particularly in the bays, through most of the last century can be seen in the number of cold-stunned or cold-killed green turtles documented during major cold snaps as late as the 1980s.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• The world’s largest aquarium is a little quiet this afternoon, with the changing tide limiting visibility to less than 30 feet, and the huge green turtle spotted by Bergman’s first passengers of the day now nowhere to be seen.
  — Anne Farrar, National Geographic, 19 June 2019
• Indian River County, just south of Brevard, has documented 365 loggerhead nests, seven leatherback nests and also has yet to see its first green turtle nest.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 19 May 2021

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024