How to Use guppy in a Sentence
guppy
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But with Freeze, the Rebels would have stood more of a chance than a guppy against a shark.
—Andrew Astleford, ajc, 28 Sep. 2017
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Anyone with the sense of a guppy knew Phelps was dead meat.
—David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 July 2017
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Girls whiptail from three corners like guppies fighting for the last crumb at the top of a fish tank.
—Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
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It’s called Sea Wolf and looks like a bloated metallic guppy.
—Brian Barrett, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2016
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The Newington Sphinx Shriners darted about in their miniature cars and red fezzes like guppies in a pond.
—Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2018
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In November, Xerox made a guppy-devours-the-whale bid to buy HP, an offer now set at $35 billion.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
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Because of the bay’s world-class beauty as a tourist destination, some who don’t know a halibut from a guppy will often come aboard for the boat ride and a chance to catch a fish.
—Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2021
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And of course, the Judases formerly known as the San Diego Chargers, were guppies, or anchovies, or sardines.
—Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
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The Jazz, inside of a few possessions, finishing up the third quarter straight ahead into and through the fourth, transformed from a guppy into a Great White.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
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This behavior occurs across a range of animals, from guppies to gazelles.
—Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
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However, the fish kept its common name as guppy until today.
—Michael Ohl, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2018
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The rebranding comes three years after Daddies bought the remnants of the larger company from Foot Locker -- a deal that has been likened to a guppy swallowing a whale.
—Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 29 July 2017
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As a kid, Roland Radinski made money by breeding and selling fancy guppies.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2019
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Decades ago, researchers seeded the headwaters of two streams in the mountainous country with guppies taken from a distant habitat.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 July 2019
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According to the report, NASA also infused moon dust into water for aquatic species like brown and pink shrimp, oysters, as well as guppies and minnows.
—Matt McNulty, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2019
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Their ability to discriminate numbers is on par with African grey parrots, dolphins and guppies, among others, Howard wrote.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
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Researchers have always wondered whether the females had a way to get rid of some of this sperm after mating, similar to methods used by species including scorpionflies and guppies.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
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Free of charge, mosquito control workers provide guppies that are placed in small ponds, rain barrels or other contained bodies of water on people's properties.
—Casey Smith, Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2019
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Now, Hendry and colleagues have updated and expanded the original data set with more than 5,000 additional examples: everything from the cranial depth of the common chaffinch to the lifespan of the Trinidadian guppy.
—Amit Katwala, Wired, 4 Feb. 2022
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Birds were represented by Japanese quail; brown shrimp, pink shrimp and oysters were used to represent shellfish; houseflies and moths joined the cockroaches to represent insects; and guppies and minnows were used to represent fish.
—Allen Kim, CNN, 29 July 2019
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Because these consumers -- who can individually bet between $1 million and $20 million over the course of a weekend, according to industry estimates -- often have more impact on the bottom line than a floor full of slot machine-playing guppies.
—Thomas Hesse, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2019
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