How to Use jellyfish in a Sentence

jellyfish

noun
  • The phantom is among the largest jellyfish in the world.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The flags flew for most of last week due jellyfish in the water.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 11 July 2022
  • All of a sudden, there’s a wall of jellyfish in front of you.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2022
  • The fibers and translucence of jellyfish and deep water life were a key theme in the 19 looks.
    Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • The barrel jellyfish is the largest found in U.K. waters, per the site.
    Fox News, 17 July 2019
  • Her door swung open and the spill of light from the hallway washed over the ceiling and drowned her jellyfish.
    Susan Choi, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The pilot just has to get the funnel right up to this golf tee jellyfish, and the suction does the rest.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • There is some debate about the best way to treat a jellyfish sting.
    Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The ends of the auditory nerve look like green jellyfish; the sheaths around the nerve fibers licorice red.
    Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The ocean, on the other hand, brims with see-through species, from jellyfish and sponges to crustaceans, cephalopods, and even fish.
    Luna Shyr, Wired, 4 Sep. 2021
  • So the five animals were the crab, the salamander, a bat, a shark, and a jellyfish.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • But some can be deadly, such as stings from the box jellyfish.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
  • At first, a few small jellyfish emerged, then a piece of plastic.
    Author: Simon Denyer, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2019
  • These odd jellyfish had one role in life: to go away and never be seen again.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
  • Isaac’s were stuffed with jellyfish and plum, mine with mustard greens and salmon flakes.
    Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The shape of these flashes, like a jellyfish, extends both up and down toward the ground.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The wine is named after jellyfish, which are able to navigate and thrive in the darkest abyss of the deep sea.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Keep in mind that swarms of jellyfish arrive around the end of June and depart about a month later.
    Michele Chabin, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a brand new, million-light-year space jellyfish in town.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
  • How to relax while swimming in the ocean, even around jellyfish.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • What will happen to me if I am stung by a clinging jellyfish?
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • What is the lifespan of the jellyfish? Jellyfish do not live long.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Throw in a fake jellyfish as bait, and the vehicle was ready to look at the giant squids more closely.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The 224-seat, open-air dining room features a large fish tank filled with jellyfish.
    Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
  • The edges of the umbrella are thickened, and the structure of the jellyfish creates the image of a cross-hair, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 July 2024
  • In the ocean, jellyfish can shoot out their harpoons about 100 times as fast as the shrimp, but the action is not repeatable.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The scuba divers took a photo of the jellyfish and continued their dive.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
  • For starters, it's caused by tiny jellyfish larvae, not lice.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 27 June 2018
  • Comb jellies, or ctenophores, are transparent creatures that are not closely related to jellyfish, despite their name.
    Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Although originally from Yangtze, China, the peach blossom jellyfish can now be found on every continent in the world except for Antarctica.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024

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