How to Use manta in a Sentence

manta

noun

• The City of Meriens follows the form and function of a manta ray.
  — Joe Quirk, CNN, 29 May 2017
• Visitors can view the stars through telescopes on Mounakea or go for a manta ray night dive off the Kona coast.
  — Kathy Henderson / Special To The Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2017
• That muddied patch of manta cloth, the product of sudden flooding, might put you in the mind of the hazy color blocks of Mark Rothko.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Reef mantas have patterns of unique belly spots that stay the same throughout their lives.
  — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2019
• Microplastics gathered by a manta trawl in the Sargasso Sea are placed on a map of the area.
  — Shailene Woodley, Time, 4 Sep. 2019
• Race your family on manta rays down these four fast flumes.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2017
• Very large manta rays were heading right for our floatie.
  — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• That’s mostly because of the reef manta's massive size; an adult can easily weigh more than a ton.
  — National Geographic, 11 Feb. 2020
• Over the years, the sea passages between the islands have seen wave and tidal machines that bring to mind steel manta rays and undulating sea snakes.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
• The manta are assembled in foil trays and baked until the middle is just cooked and still juicy, the tops are crisp around the edges and the bottoms resemble al dente pasta.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• Off the side of the Esperanza, the manta trawl lazily gobbles up water samples from the ocean's surface that are filtered through its long mesh tail.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• While the smaller reef manta has an impressive wingspan of about 11 feet wide on average, the giant oceanic manta ray—the largest species of ray—can have a wingspan of up to 29 feet.
  — National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2019
• A local who spoke with National Geographic also warned of sharks and manta rays in the waters, as well sharp whale bones poking through the sands of Shelly Island.
  — Muskratsally, Fox News, 3 July 2017
• While population numbers for giant manta rays are hard to come by, a related species, the reef manta, which until a decade ago was seen as the same species, has decreased by 90 percent in the last decade.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
• Pate's group has identified 125 individual manta rays across a study area that runs from Stuart to Fort Lauderdale.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2022
• And one day a vision worthy of the series’ soulful glimpses of oceanic life materialized directly below me in the form of a giant manta ray.
  — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2017
• Just a few days after videoing his clients catching cobia that were running with manta rays, Maciasz happened upon whale sharks that were mixed in with schools of tuna.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 24 May 2017
• Thanks to the manta ray and whale shark populations nearby, the address has developed a reputation for its diving classes and tours.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 14 May 2017
• There is also genetic evidence, to be published in a forthcoming paper, that the Florida manta rays belong to a third, new species of manta ray, Pate adds.
  — Bethany Augliere, National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2020
• Stewart, a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who has studied mantas around the world, had only seen one or two juveniles in his studies.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
• Cobia are legendarily tasty fish that cling to any type of structure, like oil platforms, gas wells, sargassum and, apparently, manta rays.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
• After the successful impromptu rescue, the divers registered the oceanic manta in a database for the vulnerable species, naming the female animal Spi-Phyll.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Now, researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a robot that mimics the manta.
  — Denise Chow /, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2017
• Even so, Stevens thinks the manta’s atypical color shouldn’t impact its survival or vulnerability to predation.
  — National Geographic, 11 Feb. 2020
• Paradoxically, that vulnerability may also bring benefits, by intensifying pressure on regional and local governments to conserve mantas on their own.
  — National Geographic, 20 June 2016
• Freedivers learn to improve their diving technique while taking identification photos and helping record environmental information essential to manta ray conservation.
  — Nora Walsh, New York Times, 29 June 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024